The direct message arrived in my Twitter account: “rofl is this you on here?” followed by a link.
Oh no! Are there embarrassing pictures of me on the Internet? Again?!
After calming down a bit, my cynicism prevails. Let’s see what’s really going on here.
The link itself was to a URL shortener. This one redirects to a page that looks very much like the login page for Twitter. Looking at the browser address bar, however, reveals a non-Twitter URL. In fact, the URL resolves to a server in China.
While some of the hyperlinks on the page point back to Twitter proper, others point to the Chinese site. These are signs of a
phishing attempt.
