You have to hand it to spammers—they’re always coming up with new and different ways to ruin our f$%*ing lives. And given today’s trends, some crafty little phisherman has managed to hook the info from a whole lot of Twitter accounts in just a couple of hours.
Here’s the rub: countless Twitter users logged in this morning to discover that they had a new DM (always a joy) featuring a link to a video that, allegedly, included footage of the unsuspecting user doing god knows what. Since we’re all pretty narcissistic these days, enough people clicked on the shady URL which brought up what looked like the Twitter login page. Ipso facto, users logged in on the faux-Twitter and had their accounts compromised. (more…)
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