Twitter facing phishing attack again

Twitter is under attack again. Now hackers has started using more sophisticated ways to steal your account information.

Now they have started using Twitter direct message option. Hackers are sending direct message to the users with a “This You?” or “HOL This IS You”followed by a phishing link. As soon as you click on that link, you will be taken to the site which looks exactly similar to the Twitter and it ask you to login and steal your information. To keep yourself safe, read Extract original URL from Shortened URLs. It helps you to find the original URL.

So if you are using the same Twitter login information for other sites like facebook, gmail, orkut and others social sites, then you can imagine yourself What more can happen to your accounts.

Bad part is that this phishing link is automatically tweeted to all your followers.

To keep yourself safe, make sure your password is a combination of alphanumeric (sg542) and special characters (@#&%). There are many 3rd party application using twitter API on the web, make sure you allow only good applications to access your account.