Twitter Phishing Scam Exposes Your Morbid Curiosity

A few days ago, I felt sick to my stomach when I opened the following direct message on Twitter from reporter Greg Bensinger, a person I follow who doesn't follow me.
His DM read, "I saw a real bad blog about you, you seen this? "
Morbidly curious, I clicked on the link and was led to a Twitter's homepage asking me to log back in. Something felt phishy, so I closed the screen and didn't think twice. Bensinger's account was down as well.
I was reminded of the whole incident on Friday when Graham Cluley of Sophos identified this "real bad blog" DM as a Twitter phishing attack making the rounds.
Basically the scam aims to take control of your Twitter account by tricking you into re-entering you... »read more

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