Twitter Spam: DM Scam Exposes Another Security Flaw

by Jordan Yerman | November 3, 2009 at 07:39 am

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Some of my friends got their accounts compromised, and their Twitter accounts started sending out DM spam. At the moment, there's nothing on the Twitter status page. While it's not a pure phishing scam, there's still obviously a security hole somewhere, since these DMs aren't sending themselves. Well, they are, but they didn't tell themselves to send themselves. Change your Twitter password today.

A Twitter representative said it was not a phishing scam because the site to which the spam links does not ask for a username and password, or look like a Twitter page.

"We're on it and fixing accounts as fast as possible," she wrote in an e-mail. "You can keep posted on known issues as well by checking in on the Twitter Status page."