Twitter users were recently hit by a spate of phishing attacks.

"Miscreants posted messages disguised as humorous updates on the Twitter micro-blogging service as part of an ongoing attack that started on Saturday," writes The Register's John Leyden. "The messages - which featured phrases such as 'Lol. this is me??', 'lol , this is funny.' and 'Lol. this you??' - included links to a counterfeit Twitter login page hosted in China, located under the domain BZPharma.net."

"The micro-blogging site warned of the attack on Sunday," Leyden writes. "It advised anyone that had fallen for the ruse to change their passwords quickly, before hackers had a chance to alter login credentials to hijack compromised accounts."

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