New Twitter Spam: Let Your Friends Know They're Hacked
As a rule, your friends don't mean to spam you. They make the mistake of clicking on a link sent by a trusted source. So, do your friends a favor and let them know they've been hacked. Seven different accounts have sent this to me in the last 20 minutes.
Clue: If a link is has a random bunch of letters in the domain or subdomain, like this one "qwecvgfjk" it's probably someone up to no good.
3 comments
Oct 29, 2009
I've been getting these DMs for the last 1/2 hour or so - will be sending each of them a link to this post. Thanks Jeff!
Oct 29, 2009
Nicolai Kolding said...
What do we do to stop this? I've been hit and "I'm" sending out these exact messages.
Oct 29, 2009
Jeff Turner said...
@nicolaikolding, you need to change your Twitter password and also go to your seetings, click on "connections" and look at the services that have been authorized to access your account. If you don't recognize a service, click on "revoke access" and it will be removed.
