An avalanche in Skype

There is a new malicious ongoing campaign on Skype. It’s active and kicking yet. The infection vector is via social engineering abusing infected Skype by sending massive messages to the contacts like these ones: i don’t think i will ever sleep again after seeing this photo http://www.goo.gl/XXXXX?image=IMG0540250-JPG tell me what you think of this picture i edited http://www.goo.gl/XXXXX?image=IMG0540250-JPG Goo.gl short URL service shows that at the moment there are more than 170k clicks on the malicious URL and only 1 hour ago there were around 160k clicks. It means the campaign is quite active with around 10k clicks per hour or with 2.7 clicks per second! The most of victims come from Russia and Ukraine:  

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Story added 4. April 2013, content source with full text you can find at link above.