WARNING: Twitter Phishing Attack Underway
If you get a Twitter direct message today reading: "check out this funny blog about you", we advise you don’t. The link leads to a fake Twitter login page that attempts to steal your Twitter login. Particularly susceptible to this attack are Twitter users who get their DMs delivered by email: it’s perfectly natural to be prompted to log in after clicking through from your email account.
You can follow updates on the attack by subscribing to the Twitter topic #phishingalert
Ironically, this may be a coming-of-age for Twitter: nobody phishes where there are no phish to catch. In other words: while stealing passwords is a vile activity, the fact that such attacks are being embarked upon would indicate that Twitter is now large enough to be a viable target…even if its savvy early-adopter audience may be wise to such scams.