Twitter confirms over 750 accounts compromised in a coordinated phishing scheme where attackers posed as young women offering webcam access Clicking fraudulent links redirected victims to explicit content sites that simultaneously harvested credit card details while bombarding devices with invasive advertising Affected accounts had passwords reset and spam purged by Twitter though none...

Twitter Users Targeted by Malicious Website Mimicking Popular App In what seems to be an endless cycle of cybersecurity threats, Twitter users find themselves once again in the crosshairs of malicious actors. This time, however, the threat doesn't involve the typical password-phishing schemes that have become all too familiar. Security researcher Rik Ferguson from Trend Micro has identified a...

A teenage hacker, claiming to be 17 but with an unverified identity, has taken credit for executing a cross-site scripting (XSS) attack on Twitter. The attack involved embedding malicious code within user profile links disguised as regular URLs, which, when clicked, caused infected tweets to be posted automatically on behalf of unwitting users. These tweets contained links that, when visited,...