Spam From 750 Compromised Twitter Accounts Invited Users To Visit Porn Website
Twitter users were hit by a new series of attacks on Friday. The subscribers received malicious messages from compromised accounts inviting them to visit a pornographic website. The messages, which posed as tweets, tried to tempt users into visiting a site called chatwebcamfree.com.
Twitter confirmed around 750 accounts were hit during the attack. Passwords of affected profiles have been reset so as to restore control of the profiles to their rightful owners. Victims of the attack included technology journalist Dennis Howlett.
It’s unclear how the compromised accounts were hacked in the first place.
Sophos notes that the same website was recently promoted in spam messages sent through Facebook. The mechanism of that attack isn’t clear either, but using phishing tactics to obtain login credentials prior to sending spam messages has been used in previous junk message attacks involving Facebook and is the favorite method this time around.
The latest Twitter attack comes hot on the heels of a SMS spoofing attack and shortly after an even more high profile attack back in January.
Credit: The Register
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