Chris Korte - cekay.de

Twitter - a wave of phishing is spreading

For a few hours you have to out for "normal" messages in the Twitter search stream. One reads only warnings that it `s not open to DM and phishing pages are switched in the network, access for tapping the Twitter accounts.

The sense of a phishing campaign: steal account data to get at more data by so-called `s DM = direct message. Once enough are gathered selectively distribute spam or phishing foist additional pages. But this is nothing new, but this time was Twitter turn.

Twitter.com and mozilla have reacted quite quickly (listed on OpenDNS and Google's phishing list), while on an initial page on Blog Spot at this time links to phishing sites rejoice merrily in contributions.

How to secure

As always, open: No foreign links in messages. Here, however, played with the confidence of so-called follower. Is complicated even with all the cut services, the target address (URL), so that more fit in the 140 character messages. With such a shortened URL you can see the damaged page does not sofot. If you have accidentally clicked possibly to such a link, or you're not sure, just change the password on Twitter.com and you're back on the safe side.

How could it pass?

It looks as if sent e-mails were fake, whose appearance as a message from Twitter looks like, if you get a DM. Usually with the words "hey! check out this funny blog about you ... "and" did you saw this funny pic from you .... " Paying attention not just on the link, you end up directly on a Reconstruction of the page like Twitter or Facebook looks like.

Virationen

The previously known URL's

http://jannawalitax.blogspot.com/

http://twitterblog.access-logins.com/login

http://rosalierebyb.blogspot.com/

"Hey! check out this funny blog about you ...

http://jannawalitax.blogspot.com/ "

"Hey, i found a website with your pic on it ... LOL check it out here http://twitterblog.access-logins.com/login"

"Hey look at this funny blog http://rosalierebyb.blogspot.com/"

I have not made the clickable URLs, but I am showing the messages and URLs in their entirety so you know what to look out for. Also, I am not identifying the senders, as the senders are likely victims and not the actual scammers.

Links:

Twitter Change Password

blog from twitter.com

detailed English blog entry

Tags: attacked • phishing • twitter

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