For a long time we’ve seen spammers, phishers and malware authors concealing their advertising pitches, scams and malicious payloads by pretending to be a message from a social network, whether it claims to originate from Facebook, Twitter or even MySpace.
Here’s one of the latest we caught today, claiming to come from Twitter.
Twitter-er!
You have 2 direct message from Twitter Administration
[LINK]The Twitter Administration
The link, of course, doesn’t go where it claims to go. You’ll only find out where that link is really going if you click on it, or hover your mouse over the link.
So, what do you think it’s going to be? …
Read more in my article on the Naked Security website.
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