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Realistic, Well-Positioned Reddit Clone is Out to Grab Users' Login Credentials

posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday February 07 2018, @02:43AM   Printer-friendly
from the always-check-your-URL dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

A convincing clone of the popular social news aggregation and discussion site Reddit has been spotted on the reddit.co domain. The author is obviously counting on users not to spot it for what it is: a site meant to harvest users' username and password.

That "m" in ".com" is as important as the second "l" in "Alzheimer's Clock".

Source: https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2018/02/06/reddit-phishing/

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  • (Score: 4, Insightful) by bob_super on Wednesday February 07 2018, @03:08AM (2 children)

    by bob_super (1357) on Wednesday February 07 2018, @03:08AM (#634268)

    and ... nothing of value was lost.

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  • (Score: 2) by Wootery on Wednesday February 07 2018, @09:44AM

    by Wootery (2341) on Wednesday February 07 2018, @09:44AM (#634346)

    Eh. Reddit has its moments. On a good day you'll even see people discussing C++ with Walter Bright. [reddit.com] It depends a great deal on the subreddit.

    Reddit is certainly doing better than, say, YouTube comments. The best that YouTube comments can do is warm fuzzy messages of support, but it's very often just braindead toxicity.

  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 07 2018, @06:20PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday February 07 2018, @06:20PM (#634478)

    Yeah it's not like Reddit makes it hard for you to make an account. You don't even need an email address or a valid email address.

    If you're re-using your important passwords on more than one site you're doing it wrong. And if you're reusing them on reddit you are probably the sort of person who's going to get pwned some other way anyway.