X owner Elon Musk has made it no secret that Twitter , the former name of the societal media company he bought for $ 44 billion in 2022 , is no more . He ’s sold off the company ’s famous blue bird memorabilia , eliminated the word “ tweet ” from the political program , and is now plainly endeavor to change all references made to Twitter.com to X.com without expect drug user .
The change wasfirst reported by Mashable , which spottedposts from disgruntledandconcerned usersabout the change on X. A few twenty-four hour period ago , some users start noticing that X was automatically changing mention of the Twitter.com URL to X.com on the societal connection ’s iOS app . The change was made no matter where “ Twitter ” was in the URL , which mean that URL such as “ NetfliTwitter.com ” come along as “ Netflix.com ” in billet .
Apparently if you habituate “ Twitter dot com ” in a URL , it gets replaced to X , no matter where it is in the URL . Let ’s try it : https://t.co / dab6pOnz6N(Netfli - Twitter)pic.twitter.com / EfYKhBQ6K2
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— Theo – t3.gg ( @t3dotgg)April 8 , 2024
However , as you might imagine , even if X mechanically changed NetfliTwitter.com to Netflix.com in posts , users who clicked on the link were taken to NetfliTwitter.com — not the real Netflix home plate Thomas Nelson Page .
While at first glance this may just look to be an pesky modification instituted by the ship’s company , users quickly pointed out that the situation created an idealistic situation for scammers . By buying up domains like NetfliTwitter.com , scammers were given a perfect opportunity to conduct phishing campaign and slip substance abuser ’ login credentials .
The X user@yuyu0127_preemptively bought the NetfliTwitter.com area to prevent it from being used by hackers and post the following warning :
“ As of April 8 , 2024 , the iOS Twitter ( now X ) client automatically replaces the text ‘ twitter.com ’ in post with ‘ x.com ’ as part of its functionality . Therefore , for example , a universal resource locator that is likely ‘ netflix.com ’ will actually redirect to ‘ netflitwitter.com ’ when clicked .
Please be cognizant that there is a potential difference for this feature film to be overwork in the future , by acquiring domains containing ‘ twitter.com ’ to conduct drug user to malicious Page .
This land , ‘ netflitwitter.com , ’ has been acquired for protective purposes to prevent its utilization for such malicious activities .
Mashable note that another X user,@amasato_mochi , buy the domain “ seTwitter.com , ” which X was transfer to “ sex.com . ” The user also get to protect the unsuspecting public from phishing attacks . The “ seTwitter.com ” domain currently redirects to another Sir Frederick Handley Page with a similar monition to the one issued by @yuyu0127 _ .
“ Please do not access suspicious URLs ! ” @amasato_mochi write . “ On April 8 , 2024 , a dangerous feature was implemented in the iOS customer for Twitter ( now X ) that forcibly replace the string twitter.com in tweet contents with x.com if it is let in . Consequently , there might be an step-up in individuals acquiring domains that include “ some string”twitter.com , and depending on the acquirers ’ intent , this could lead to malicious websites being unite . ”
As of Tuesday , it come along that X had reversed course and was no longer mechanically interchange “ NetfliTwitter.com ” to “ Netflix.com ” on iOS . However , Mashable noted that there were still many instances of other credit of words being change to resemble veritable websites , though it did not offer specific example .
Gizmodo reach out to X for comment on the change on Wednesday daybreak but did not right away encounter a answer .
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