Twitter Targeted Again by Worm-like Phishing Attack
All of you Twitter users should be on the lookout for bogus messages that are trying to trick you into divulging your login details in so they can spam the people on your contact list.
All of you Twitter users should be on the lookout for bogus messages that are trying to trick you into divulging your login details in so they can spam the people on your contact list.
If a person entered their login details, TwitterCut would then send the same message via Twitter to all of the victim's contacts, a kind of phishing attack with worm-like characteristics. No malicious software is installed on a user's machine, Hypponen said.
