RSSPhishers hijack 750+ Twitter accounts
By Angela Gunn | Published March 6, 2009, 9:45 PM
Trend Micro is reporting, and Twitter confirms, that Twitter users are once again under attack by people who need to upgrade their ethics. Targets receive a tweet from someone claiming to be female, 23, and in possession of a webcam. Click the link and you end up on an "adult" site that both attempts to phish your credit-card info and slathers your computer with ads for the same stuff.
Twitter says it has changed the passwords and removed the spam from the 750-odd accounts, none of which were believed to actually be kept by anyone female, 23, and in possession of a webcam. Trend Micro notes tartly that though it's not clear how how the attack was undertaken, "with Twitterers' willingness to enter their Twitter username and password into any number of third-party websites offering Twitter-related services, the opportunities for cybercrime are many."
Remember, most people only use thier computer for surfing, checking email and printing pictures. Translation .... most peple are clueless.
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|CLUELESS IS THE WORD OF THE MONTH
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|I go to a friends house who's always on the internet, who is having PC problems. Guess what? He's still running XP SP1. I ask why didn't you install the updates when Windows asks? "I was afraid those pop ups where viruses."
He wont do that, but has had his Myspace hijacked 3 times and has countless Trojans, viruses mailware ect... PC takes 10 minutes to start up having installed 7, yes 7 IE toolbars. Including some fake mailware scanner that asks for your CC every 5 minutes to clean your system. I JUST DON'T GET IT.
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|Want him to learn? Charge him for your work. If it's that bad, demand compensation. When he asks what he did, tell him. Eventually he'll realize he's paying you for his own mistakes and should make an attempt to better his internet habits.
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|tell your friend he probably shouldn't touch a computer, i say that to some of my friends all the time :P
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|Of course with Vista, this crap cannot alter your registry or install any software without your knowledge, providing you are smart enough not to disable this feature.
What does XP do to protect against this crap? Nothing. It can alter all the keys it wants without you knowing about it and install malware you can't remove.
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|We can assume, that at any given date, accounts on all these networks are being phished?
Thanks. It's a fact of life, and will always be a fact of life.
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|People actually still fall for this? Morons. If it's too good to be true...
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|Better yet, use the Opera browser regardless of your OS, and don't waste time on "social networking" sites like MySpace, Facebook, and Twitter.
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|I tried Facebook and don't use it anymore.
But Twitter is actually quite useful. I can use it to "microblog" and put a feed of my tweets on my blog. It's not really fair to compare Twitter to MySpace and Facebook, Twitter is no more "social" than e-mail or any IM application.
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|And I use Twitter for both social uses and microblogging my own stuff. It also functions for me as something of a news ticker; I know a few creative types who use it as an artistic medium. The trick in all four cases is to choose your information sources and know what you want to accomplish with it -- as you point out, it's simply a technology, like email or IM or blogging.
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|This wouldn't be possible if everybody was smart enough to use Safari 4 which has the best anti-phishing filter. If you're serious about security use Safari 4 on Mac OS X. All your security problems are gone.
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|Yeah, but I really, really feel strongly about having the ability to load Web pages in under three hours. And "all your security problems" are not gone with that or any other anti-phishing filter -- wish the tech worked that way, but it really doesn't.
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|All your security problems are gone if you don't browse around like a moron.
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|yeah, safari isn't going to save sex crazed morons from clicking bad links and phishing, your statement is retarded but i'm not surprised
however, signing up for opendns, using updated hosts filter along with firefox safebrowsing etc, are all much needed tools which should be enabled by default on alot of folks systems
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