Sometimes it’s easy to forget, but technically Twitter no longer exists.
Last summer, Elon Musk changed the company name to «X». But:
One of the latest updates that the social network’s executives are trying to encourage people to adopt the new name is the automatic change of links in posts — from «Twitter.com» to «X.com», reports Mashable website.
Why is this dangerous? Assuming that someone has chosen the domain name «NetfliTwitter.com», the links in the post will appear as «Netflix.com» — a popular streaming service. This is an ideal scenario for those who want to launch phishing campaigns.
The example is not hypothetical — user X @yuyu0127_ quickly registered the domain name «NetfliTwitter.com» to prevent it from being used and posted a warning about potential problems in X’s changes.
«This domain has been purchased to prevent it from being used for malicious purposes», — the account title says «NetfliTwitter.com».
According to some users, the change also affected older posts, and was first noticed in the X app for iOS.