Bitcoin scammers phish for wallet recovery codes on Twitter

Were no strangers to the Twitter customer support DM slide scam. This is where someone watches an organisation perform customer support on Twitter, and injects themselves into the conversation at opportune moments hoping potential victims don’t notice. This is aided by imitation accounts modelled...

Beware of New Twitter Spam - "Bad blog going around about you"

Beware of New Twitter Spam - "Bad blog going around about you" This is not first time I have received spam messages from Twitter. Just now I checked my twitter account and what I see is two Direct Message saying "Bad blog going around about you, have you read it yet?" followed by a URL shortened...

Phishing pages

Be careful what links you click on. URL shortening services like bit.ly are doing a “great job” masking the final destination of your click. You can unwittingly land on a server which is hosting phishing sites or pages distributing malware. Cybercriminals have made Twitter their favorite phishing...

Paul Judge on Twitter Crime and Web Security

Dennis Fisher talks with Paul Judge of Barracuda Networks about the company’s new report on Twitter phishing trends, search engine poisoning, Web security and what can be done about the spam pandemic. Podcast audio courtesy of sykboy65 Subscribe to the Digital Underground podcast on...