{"id":121879,"date":"2021-04-23T22:23:50","date_gmt":"2021-04-24T05:23:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/phishing-message-sent-from-twitter-the-platform-confirms-massive-error"},"modified":"2021-04-23T22:23:50","modified_gmt":"2021-04-24T05:23:50","slug":"phishing-message-sent-from-twitter-the-platform-confirms-massive-error","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/phishing-message-sent-from-twitter-the-platform-confirms-massive-error","title":{"rendered":"Phishing message sent from Twitter? The platform confirms massive error"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/aIX958cNKdE?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>An unprecedented event occurred a few hours ago when, by mistake, thousands of users received an email from <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securitynewspaper.com\/2021\/02\/23\/twitter-removes-dozens-of-accounts-associated-with-russian-government\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Twitter<\/a><\/strong> requesting users to confirm their accounts, giving the impression of being a massive <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.securitynewspaper.com\/2021\/04\/21\/hackers-use-email-phishing-campaign-to-deploy-multiple-variants-of-trojans\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">phishing<\/a><\/strong> attack. This incident, which began around 10:00 PM on Thursday, impacted individual and business accounts alike.<\/p>\n<p>The subject line of these messages only mentioned the phrase \u201cConfirm your Twitter account\u201d, and included a button to complete the action. While these messages seemed legitimate, the cybersecurity community soon began to question their provenance and intentions, as this clearly seemed like a simple but effective phishing attack.<\/p>\n<p>During the minutes following the sending of this message, users began posting their doubts on Twitter and other social media platforms.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An unprecedented event occurred a few hours ago when, by mistake, thousands of users received an email from Twitter requesting users to confirm their accounts, giving the impression of being a massive phishing attack. This incident, which began around 10:00 PM on Thursday, impacted individual and business accounts alike. The subject line of these messages [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121879","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-cybercrime-malcode"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121879","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121879"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121879\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121879"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121879"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121879"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}