{"id":9620,"date":"2013-02-19T05:02:02","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T13:02:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/37prime.wordpress.com\/?p=9620"},"modified":"2013-02-19T05:02:02","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T13:02:02","slug":"reporting-malicious-links-to-bitly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2013\/02\/19\/reporting-malicious-links-to-bitly\/","title":{"rendered":"Reporting malicious links to bitly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Recent round of spams propagated using hacked <a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Twitter<\/a> accounts and <a href=\"http:\/\/bitly.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">bitly URL shortener<\/a> became the topic of discussion. Just a few days ago Twitter account of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GregHetson\/\" target=\"_blank\">Greg Hetson<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.badreligion.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bad Religion<\/a>, Circle Jerks) was <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GregHetson\/status\/303656374901039105\" target=\"_blank\">hacked<\/a> and a link using bitly URL shortener to a spam site was posted.<\/p>\n<p>If you encountered any malicious or spam using bit.ly, please <a href=\"http:\/\/support.bitly.com\/knowledgebase\/articles\/117936-i-ve-found-a-bitly-link-that-directs-to-spam-what\" target=\"_blank\">report it to bitly immediately<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>You can report spam links to support@bitly.com to be blocked. Include the word &#8216;spam&#8217; in the message and include the link and information about how you received it.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From time to time you&#8217;d see that bitly would warn visitors off the malicious URL they about to visit.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/bitly-warning.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"bitly-warning\" src=\"http:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/bitly-warning-480x385.jpg\" width=\"480\" height=\"385\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recent round of spams propagated using hacked Twitter accounts and bitly URL shortener became the topic of discussion. Just a few days ago Twitter account of Greg Hetson (Bad Religion, Circle Jerks) was hacked and a link using bitly URL shortener to a spam site was posted. If you encountered any malicious or spam using &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/2013\/02\/19\/reporting-malicious-links-to-bitly\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Reporting malicious links to bitly&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[946,4],"tags":[511,1966,2511,2648,2769,936,3055],"class_list":["post-9620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements","category-news","tag-bitly","tag-malware","tag-resources","tag-security","tag-spam","tag-tech","tag-twitter"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcNtU-2va","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/37prime.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}