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X.com Automatically Changing Link Text but Not URLs

published on 2024-04-16 11:00:58 UTC by Bruce Schneier
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Brian Krebs reported that X (formerly known as Twitter) started automatically changing twitter.com links to x.com links. The problem is: (1) it changed any domain name that ended with “twitter.com,” and (2) it only changed the link’s appearance (anchortext), not the underlying URL. So if you were a clever phisher and registered fedetwitter.com, people would see the link as fedex.com, but it would send people to fedetwitter.com.

Thankfully, the problem has been fixed.

Article: X.com Automatically Changing Link Text but Not URLs - published 3 months ago.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/04/x-com-automatically-changing-link-names-but-not-links.html   
Published: 2024 04 16 11:00:58
Received: 2024 04 16 11:03:24
Feed: Schneier on Security
Source: Schneier on Security
Category: Cyber Security
Topic: Cyber Security
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