Sunday, January 4, 2009

Twitter Phishing Attack Underway

I've received three of these today. DO NOT click on a link you're not expecting in a DM. If you do click, DO NOT login to the page you're taken to, or you can likely kiss your Twitter account goodbye.
clipped from mashable.com
twitterphish

If you get a Twitter direct message today reading: “check out this funny blog about you”, we advise you don’t. The link leads to a fake Twitter login page that attempts to steal your Twitter login. Particularly susceptible to this attack are Twitter users who get their DMs delivered by email: it’s perfectly natural to be prompted to log in after clicking through from your email account.

You can follow updates on the attack by subscribing to the Twitter topic #phishingalert

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