MADRID (Portaltic/EP).- The implementation of the new icon of the social network Twitter, which is now called X, is triggering security alerts from the Microsoft Edge browser, which it understands to be an attempt to deceive the user.
Elon Musk renamed the company Twitter as Xcorp and the social network of the same name as X, in a complete rebranding to accompany the new era of the popular ‘microblogging’ platform, in which the text will take second place in favor of of elements such as audio, video, messaging and payments, also driven by artificial intelligence.
These brand changes can already be seen in the mobile ‘app’ icon and also in the logo that is displayed when logging into the platform and once inside it. A change that, if opened in the Microsoft Edge browser, triggers a security response, as a warning.
This alert displays the old Twitter logo and the new X logo, and warns: “If this web app is trying to trick you into thinking it’s a different app, uninstall it,” according to a screenshot shared by Windows Insider user Florian .
This alert relates to Progressive Web Apps (PWA), a feature of Chromium browsers like Edge and Chrome that presents a type of app that hasn’t been developed for a particular platform (iOS, Android, Windows) as it happens with native apps, but instead runs in a browser tab like a web page, but without actually being one.
As Bleeping Computer points out, this security alert was introduced in Chrome and Edge in 2021 to notify the user when a PWA changes their icon or name, in case it is an impersonation intended to scam them.
