Beware tweets that lure clicks to steal info

• Autores: Sally Adee
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 3088, 2016, pág. 21
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Phishing, where crooks try to trick people into clicking links to malware or sites that steal their personal information, is common on social networks like Twitter. Now a machine learning system that reads past tweets to craft personalized traps could make clicking links that show up in the feed even riskier. Some criminals take the trouble to tailor their phishing tweets to specific individuals by hand--known as spearphishing. For example, @NatWest_HelpTC is a scam account that responds to anyone tweeting a customer service question at NatWest Bank's real Twitter account. The impostors direct users to a fake NatWest site in an attempt to harvest bank login details. A NatWest spokesperson told New Scientist that attacks like this have plagued them--and other companies--for a while now.