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X.com Automatically Changing Link Text but Not URLs
2024-04-16 11:00

Brian Krebs reported that X started automatically changing twitter.com links to x.com links.

The problem is: it changed any domain name that ended with "Twitter.com," and it only changed the link's appearance, 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.


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https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2024/04/x-com-automatically-changing-link-names-but-not-links.html