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Popular Twitter Hashtag Used To Point to Malicious Sites

04
Sep
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…

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