Watch Out For Twitter Phishing Emails

This was taken from mashable…

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If you get a Twitter direct message today reading: “check out this funny blog about you”, we advise you don’t. The link leads to a fake Twitter login page that attempts to steal your Twitter login. Particularly susceptible to this attack are Twitter users who get their DMs delivered by email: it’s perfectly natural to be prompted to log in after clicking through from your email account.

You can follow updates on the attack by subscribing to the Twitter topic #phishingalert

A Good Sign for Twitter?

Ironically, this may be a coming-of-age for Twitter: nobody phishes where there are no phish to catch. In other words: while stealing passwords is a vile activity, the fact that such attacks are being embarked upon would indicate that Twitter is now large enough to be a viable target…even if its savvy early-adopter audience may be wise to such scams.

Almost exactly one year ago today, we reported on the first serious Facebook hack: an attempt to install adware via a Facebook app. Facebook, of course, was one of 2008’s biggest gainers on the web. We can confidently expect rapid growth – and the malicious attacks that accompany it – for Twitter in 2009.