Fox News Got Twit-Phished. Did You?
January 5, 2009
I’m not trying to make light of anyone who got caught in the scam, but it seems that Twitter caught the wave of some “phishy” business over the weekend.
A lot of people were affected, including Fox News, Britney Spears and CNN’s Rick Sanchez.
If you got a random direct message from someone and clicked a link that redirected you to twitter.access-logins.com/login/, DO NOT FILL OUT YOUR INFORMATION.
I haven’t been personally affected by phishing on the social sites, but my wife has received some strange Facebook messages from friends on her wall with alleged “pics” of her on sites like “barkjump.com” and “fittry.com.”
If you didn’t know, this is also a phishing scam, just on Facebook.
AriWriter has a list of the all the different .com’s that are part of Facebook phishing. The culprit behind these recent phishing scams is access-logins.com, which is based in China.
- By Jonathan Bentz, Link Architect