Twitter users faced a phishing onslaught during the holiday weekend.
Direct messages flooded inboxes, pushing deceptive links mimicking Twitter.
These malicious URLs aimed to harvest unsuspecting users' login credentials.
Reports of suspicious DMs surged throughout the weekend.
Compromised accounts, accessed via weak or known passwords, served as the attack vector.
Followers received DMs...
Twitter confirms over 750 accounts compromised in a coordinated phishing scheme
where attackers posed as young women offering webcam access
Clicking fraudulent links redirected victims to explicit content sites
that simultaneously harvested credit card details
while bombarding devices with invasive advertising
Affected accounts had passwords reset and spam purged by Twitter
though none...
Twitter Users Targeted by Malicious Website Mimicking Popular App
In what seems to be an endless cycle of cybersecurity threats, Twitter users find themselves once again in the crosshairs of malicious actors. This time, however, the threat doesn't involve the typical password-phishing schemes that have become all too familiar.
Security researcher Rik Ferguson from Trend Micro has identified a...
A teenage hacker, claiming to be 17 but with an unverified identity, has taken credit for executing a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack on Twitter. The attack involved embedding malicious code within user profile links disguised as regular URLs, which, when clicked, caused infected tweets to be posted automatically on behalf of unwitting users. These tweets contained links that, when visited,...
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