‘A Gift to Phishers:’ Elon Musk’s Plan to Change X/Twitter Links Backfires Spectacularly

Elon Musk’s rebranding of Twitter to X hit a major hurdle this week when the social network’s attempt to automatically replace “twitter.com” links with “x.com” backfired. Security expert Brian Krebs called the system a “gift to phishers” and said it allows hackers to make links to malicious sites appear safe. ars technica report In a […]