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Twitter phishing scam may be spreading
Webware.com —
... Read more on the Twitter Status blog, Chris Pirillo's blog, VentureBeat, Mashable.
Update: If you are logged in to the real Twitter.com, you'll now see an update about this scam on the page. No warning appears if you use another Twitter client, like Twhirl. ...
Twitter Officially Hits Mainstream; First Phishing Scam Reported
CenterNetworks —
... I guess we can all say that Twitter has hit the mainstream. This afternoon reports have come in about a phishing scam which uses direct messages to push people to visit a site "access-logins.com". The site (as seen below via Chris Pirillo) looks just like the Twitter login page but naturally would grab your login credentials if you entered them into the form. ...
The Phishing Scam Which Has Twitter Talking
The Next Web —
... this evening. Highlighted first by celebrity techie Chris Pirillo, the scam sends you a dm apparently from one of your friends quoting a blogspot URL you just “have to check out!”. ...
Phishing Scam Targeting Twitter Users
The Inquisitr » Technology —
... messages in this way usually wouldn’t think twice about clicking on one.
The result: users are taken to a site registered in China that looks identical to Twitter, but is actually on the URL twitter.access-logins.com. I’ll give the phishers credit: they’re at least being honest in the URL.
The only good take away for Twitter itself: services are usually only targeted by phishing scams if they become popular enough to be targeted.
See also Chris Pirillo and Mashable for more. ...
Linkpost | 1.4.2009
TechBlog —
... - Is speculation about Jobs' health hurting Apple to the point that Jobs should make his second exit from the company? • Phishing Scam Spreading on Twitter and ...
Twitter Warns Users About Phishing Scam
mocoNews —
... Blogger Chris Pirillo was targeted twice on Saturday, and raised a good point on his blog about how easily Twitter users could fall for a phishing scam. He recommends to "NOT log in to your Twitter account through any site other than Twitter.com," which may sound really obvious, but in Twitter's case it isn't. "Consider how many third-party Twitter services you use? Seems it's about time for some kind of verification / validation for applications using the Twitter API - so you can be sure you're passing your credentials to the right people. I'm guessing this ...
Twitter twormented by phishers
Betanews —
... the problem Saturday afternoon, but regular users were reporting a welter of suspicious messages throughout the weekend. The phishers appear to have gained access to one or more accounts with known or guessable passwords. They used those accounts to send direct messages to other users; those DMs included a URL that looked vaguely like one for Twitter, and requests the user's login information. The URL, bloggertwit.access-logins.com, was ...
Twitter Has Security Meltdown
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs —
... of Twitter's support software. The security failure has resulted in the temporary takeover of Twitter accounts associated with Facebook, Fox News, The Huffington Post, Barack Obama, Britney Spears, and CNN's Rick Sanchez. The phishing campaign was first reported on January 3rd. Tech blogger Chris Pirillo warned that he had received a direct message from one of his Twitter followers advising him to visit sites designed to look like Twitter's logon page that smelled "phishy." "The message bears a ...
