Phishing Attacks Hits Twitter Users - Utilising Direct Messages

I personally received the following direct message on Twitter from someone I know quite well:
hey! check out this funny blog about you…
http://jannawalitax.blogspot.com/
It’s a link to a fake blogspot URL that redirects to a phishing URL for Twitter, it looks the same as the real login page but the actual URL is:
http://twitterblogs.access-logins.com/login (WARNING THIS IS A [...]

Twitter Squatting - The New Domain Jacking?

It seems the latest target for spammers, opportunists and those into Domain Squatting is the registration of interesting or possibly valuable Twitter usernames.
Twitter has exploded recently as a new ‘micro-blogging’ platform and it works really well, especially when combined with more traditional blogging and the host of tools that have been build around Twitter to [...]

CSRF Vulnerability in Twitter Allows Forced Following

I did mention this earlier in the week when I was talking about Twitter being used as a malware distribution platform, there also seems to be an auto follow vulnerability that spammers would love.
Do you remember Myspace and samy with 900,000 friends? Now we have johng77536 on Twitter!

Last week, TechCrunch’s Jason Kincaid wrote about an [...]

Twitter Targeted by Malware Distributors

This one is of interest to me as I do actually use Twitter as a microblogging service and to keep up with what various friends are up to.
It’s quite an interesting wep app especially paired with something like Twitterfox in your browser and Twibble in your mobile phone.
It must have made it big now though [...]


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