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Severo ataque de phishing en Twitter

julio 12th, 2011 | Posted by kwelladm in Noticias

Twitter users are reporting receiving direct messages (DMs) from other members of the network, cheekily asking if it is them who is pictured in a photo, video or mentioned in a blog post.
Various versions of the dangerous messages include:
is this you in the video?
is this you in this picture?
check this out… it’s a funny blog post. you’re mentioned in it.
Clicking on the link attached to the message can take you to what appears, at first glance, to be the Twitter login page.

But take a closer look, and you’ll see that the website isn’t the real twitter.com. The url is wrong. If you make the mistake of entering your username and password on the page, in the hope of seeing the picture or video or blog post about you, then you could be handing your login credentials to cybercriminals. They could then use the information to spread scams further across the network, spam out malicious links or use the passwords against other websites where you might use the same login details.

Del Harvey, who runs Twitter’s Safety team, says that Twitter is resetting the passwords of users who it believes have been hit by the phishing attack.

Fuente y resto de recomendaciones: Nakedsecurity

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