mashable.com— We have received multiple reports that a new, convincing, and dangerous worm and phishing scam is making the rounds on Twitter. Hacked accounts are sending DMs.
Sep 23, 2009View in Crawl 4
It's pretty sad that you have to look out for things like that today, and that's considered by some of you to be the norm? Maybe you're just not on the ball when online and happen to click it.
Actually, you're not. It isn't a worm, from what I can see, it's a phishing page that steals your login and then posts the URL on your twitter account. You're just as vulnerable.
It's not really a worm, but it kind of works in the same way. The new account info it steals can be used to automatically tweet the URL of the pishing page on the stolen users account.
financephiSep 24, 2009
It's pretty sad that you have to look out for things like that today, and that's considered by some of you to be the norm? Maybe you're just not on the ball when online and happen to click it.
peteyb1313Sep 24, 2009
why didn't the scammers make a tinyURL for that clearly malicious looking URL?who clicks on those? right, people who use twitter...
Closed AccountSep 24, 2009
running Ubuntu here, so I'm pretty safe......suckers.
themazzterSep 24, 2009
It's not a worm if it can't replicate itself without user intervention. This is phishing.
goblinsoulSep 24, 2009
Actually, you're not. It isn't a worm, from what I can see, it's a phishing page that steals your login and then posts the URL on your twitter account. You're just as vulnerable.
goblinsoulSep 24, 2009
It's not really a worm, but it kind of works in the same way. The new account info it steals can be used to automatically tweet the URL of the pishing page on the stolen users account.
goblinsoulSep 24, 2009
I'm guessing because tinyURL can then easily take down the redirect on that link and the 'worm' stops working.