Twitter has warned its ardent users to be on the lookout for dangerous direct messages, which could lead to cybercriminals phishing their account login details.
Sophos has report the offending direct messages take the form of:
hi. this you on here? http://blogger.djh****.com
(We've obscured part of the url as it wouldn't be a good idea for you to visit the page.)
If you did make the mistake of thinking that one of your Twitter friends was sending you a link to, perhaps a funny photograph, you would be presented with what appears - on first glance at least - to be the Twitter login page:
However, this is a phishing page - designed to grab your Twitter username and password as soon as you enter them. In this case the cybercriminals don't even seem to have made much effort to hide the fact that the site is dodgy - the domain name they have chosen doesn't look anything like twitter.com and should stick out like a sore thumb to anyone who cares to take a moment to see where...
Twitter attack
Sophos has report the offending direct messages take the form of:
hi. this you on here? http://blogger.djh****.com
(We've obscured part of the url as it wouldn't be a good idea for you to visit the page.)
If you did make the mistake of thinking that one of your Twitter friends was sending you a link to, perhaps a funny photograph, you would be presented with what appears - on first glance at least - to be the Twitter login page:
However, this is a phishing page - designed to grab your Twitter username and password as soon as you enter them. In this case the cybercriminals don't even seem to have made much effort to hide the fact that the site is dodgy - the domain name they have chosen doesn't look anything like twitter.com and should stick out like a sore thumb to anyone who cares to take a moment to see where...
Twitter attack