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Popular Twitter Hashtag Used To Point to Malicious Sites

Popular Twitter Hashtag Used To Point to Malicious Sites

September 4, 2014

Twitter is actively used by cybercriminals to post spam messages promoting increase of followership for different platforms, using a popular hashtag that would increase their visibility to users.The newly created #IfMyPhoneGotHacked hashtag is included in tweets promising services that would increase the follower count on Instagram and Twitter, according to Jovi Umawing from Malwarebytes.The hashtag was probably created as a result of the recent compromise of the iCloud accounts belonging to f…