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

On April 9, Twitter/X began automatically modifying links that mention “twitter.com” to read “x.com” instead. But over the past 48 hours, dozens of new domain names have been registered that demonstrate how this change could be used to craft convincing phishing links — such as fedetwitter[.]com, which until very recently rendered as fedex.com in tweets.

TalesOfTrees,

Isn’t the “find-replace” mistake like… one of the first ones you come across learning to become a developer?

TheBlue22,

Bold of you to assume Elon is a developer

Nakoichi,
@Nakoichi@hexbear.net avatar

Lmao Musk is such a dumbass I can only imagine the series of discussions that went on and warnings that went unheeded before he demanded whatever devs he has left implemented this.

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