Phishing Tweets

According to the Twitter blog, phishing scams targeted at Twitter users, have appeared. If you wonder what scammers are trying to achieve with it? Well think about it, there is a lot of value in Twitter account. Maybe not on the average Joe Twitter user, however there are a lot of high profile Twitter users, which account info may be of value. Just by having the president of the USA there, is worth trying the scam. Imagine if they could get the account of any high profile user  or with thousands of followers ? Some interesting social engineering could be done against the followers of the accounts hijacked.

At the end of the day, scammers may be betting on users using the same password on all their sites. Actually it makes sense, think about it, it takes some effort to come up with a new password that you can remember. And since people might think, that their Twitter account is not worth the effort of a new password, then why not use the “standard Web 2.0” password. Just shows how valuable are login information to popular Web 2.0 sites, even if the sites itself is not making money, doesn’t mean scammers can make money out of them.

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