Tvviter - Beware of fake Twitter phishing website
By Asavin Wattanajantra in Editorial
Posted in Jonathan Ross, phishing, Twitter on
Security vendors have warned about a fake phishing website targeting users of Twitter, designed to convince users to type in their personal details and directing users to ‘Adult Dating Services’ by adding followers to the compromised accounts.
According to Rik Ferguson at Trend Micro, anybody fooled into giving away their account credentials will find at least six new followers appearing on their account.
Links to these profiles will be to redirect users to adult dating site, which would make the scammers money through a pay-per-click affliate scheme.
Sophos have posted up a video of the attack on YouTube.
It’s not the first security issue highlighted on Twitter this week - Chat show host Jonathan Ross managed to accidently post his email address to 260,000 followers.
That’s bad enough, but security researcher Graham Cluley said that his accidental tweet is never really deleted, and that he managed to find the email address in a matter of seconds.
He asked why Twitter doesn’t ‘really’ delete messages when you wanted to, and said it was a serious security problem that searching could find messages you thought were no longer accessible.
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