Petaling Jaya (The Star/ANN) - If you
receive a tweet from someone you know, saying that some people are talking bad
about you on a particular website, watch out. It's likely to be an attempt to
glean your Twitter account login, password and personal details.
Whatever you do, do not go to the site that's
listed in the tweet.
CyberSecurity Malaysia has confirmed that this
is a phishing attack.
Phishers are unscrupulous people, who try to
trick Internet users into revealing the details of their online accounts.
In this case, clicking on the link in the
tweet will take you to what looks like a Twitter log-in screen.
A message will then pop up telling you that
your Twitter session has timed out, asking you to log-in again.
"The phishers are mimicking Twitter's URL
with the address http://itvviter.com and we found that the site is being hosted
in China," CyberSecurity Malaysia said.
The phishing site will also redirect users to
Twitter's actual app authentication site at
https://twitter.com/oauth/authenticate to dupe users into thinking that the
earlier site is legitimate.
If the phisher gets your log-in and password,
he can hijack your Twitter account and personal information.
He will also have access to the people you
follow or who follow you.
News Desk in Petaling Jaya/The Star | Asia
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