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Twitter’s Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers

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Feed Name: Krebs on Security

Threat Score
30/100

Date Published: 2024-04-10

Date Updated: 2026-04-19

Author: BrianKrebs

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A bug in Twitter/X's link rewriting caused domains containing "twitter.com" to be displayed as "x.com," prompting dozens of domain registrations that could facilitate phishing by resembling legitimate sites; many were defensively registered, examples are provided, and Twitter/X has reportedly fixed the issue.

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