“If you receive a DM or see a message with a phrase like ‘This you??’ or ‘LOL is this you’ followed by a link, amuse do not click through; there’s a phishing site on the added side,” the company said on its status page. Twitter on Wednesday posted a warning about this particular scam.
This allows spammers to use Twitter and added social communication accoutrement to target keywords associated with current news events, in adjustment to secure prominent placement for their malicious links. F-Secure, a security company based in Helsinki, Finland, attributes spammers’ interest in compromised Twitter accounts to recent efforts by Google, Microsoft, and Yahoo to integrate nearly real-time data, like Twitter posts, into search results lists.
Related Stories