Yesterday, a hacker, or group of them, made their way onto Twitter and made a profitable adventure from their hacking scam, and Bitcoin.
This hacker got access to powerful folks accounts, and posted as if they were them. They made it sound legit. Like Bill Gates for starters (all were basically the same). Gates says"
"Everyone is asking me to give back, and now is the time"
"I am doubling all payments sent to my BTC address for the next 30 minutes. You send me $1,000 and I send you back $2,000"
"Only going on for 30 minutes! Enjoy!"
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Now, how many dummies out there would think that makes sense? Why not just give your address and then they would give you the money? Why have to send your own money first? And yet, many just saw the famous names and figured it legit, and sent away.
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Hackers targeted Twitter employees to hijack accounts of Elon Musk, Joe Biden and others in digital currency scam
- Twitter said its investigation uncovered an operation that targeted Twitter employees to gain access to internal systems and tools.
- The attackers gained access to dozens of high-profile accounts, including those of Apple, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Joe Biden and former President Barack Obama.
Twitter shares sank Thursday, a day after hackers gained access to more than a dozen high-profile accounts, including those of Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Joe Biden, former President Barack Obama, Elon Musk and the corporate account of Apple.
The accounts displayed tweets telling followers to send bitcoin to a specific address.
Share prices were down more than 5% in Thursday’s premarket.
Musk was the first hacking victim Wednesday, when a tweet was posted early in the afternoon on the Tesla CEO’s account promising to double any payments sent to a bitcoin address.
Twitter said late Wednesday its investigation uncovered an operation that targeted Twitter employees to gain access to internal systems and tools.
“We detected what we believe to be a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools,” the company tweeted from a support account.
“We know they used this access to take control of many highly-visible (including verified) accounts and Tweet on their behalf.”
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey said that the company feels terrible about the hacked accounts.
Other accounts hacked included former New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg, musicians Kanye West and Wiz Khalifa, Berkshire Hathaway Chairman Warren Buffett, reality TV star Kim Kardashian, the Cash App corporate account, and Uber’s corporate account. The bitcoin-related tweet was Apple’s first ever tweet, although the account had placed ads in the past.
Rachel Tobac, CEO of cybersecurity firm SocialProof Security, told NBC News the attack was likely the largest Twitter had ever seen. “We are lucky the attackers are going after bitcoin (money motivated) and not motivated by chaos and destruction.”
Theresa Payton, a former White House chief information officer and current CEO of Fortalice Solutions, warned that information such as direct messages may have been stolen from the affected accounts and could be released or used in the future.
“They’re going to need to apologize to the VIPs and to the individuals who were defrauded and fell for the scam,” Payton told CNBC. “The next thing they’re going to need to do is to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation, and they’re going to need to share what they can about who the attackers were and how they pulled this off.”
Mel Shakir, a managing director at DreamIt Ventures and a veteran of the IT security industry, said high-profile users like those attacked on Wednesday should be using as many security options as possible, including biometric authentication like fingerprints, or using hardware keys instead of text messages for two-factor authentication. “Passwords are inherently insecure. But Twitter has provided all the security options that are available,” Shakir said.
Earlier Wednesday, several cryptocurrency accounts simultaneously linked to a phishing site called CryptoForHealth. Cameron Winklevoss, co-founder of Gemini, a cryptocurrency market, said in a tweet: “ALL MAJOR CRYPTO TWITTER ACCOUNTS HAVE BEEN COMPROMISED.” In the past, one popular cryptocurrency scam on Twitter involved attackers changing their display name and avatar to match Elon Musk, then they would reply to his tweets pretending to be him asking for bitcoin. But on Wednesday, the accounts tweeting about bitcoin were real.
All hacked accounts on Wednesday were verified. The tweets on Wednesday appeared to have been sent through a web browser accessing Twitter.com, not an app or third-party software. Around 3:15 p.m. PT, Twitter blocked all verified accounts from tweeting in an attempt to regain control. They were reactivated at 5:41 p.m. PT.
Here’s a sampling of the tweets. Many have been deleted.
https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/15/hack...ency-scam.html
Twitter “Hack” an Inside Job – Reveals Shadowbanning Tool Is Manual and Not Accidental — Exposes Tech Giant’s Massive Censorship Operation
On Wednesday the Twitter account belonging to former Vice President Joe Biden was hacked, the account belonging to former President Barack Obama was hacked shortly after.
Many other massive figures and accounts were also hacked, including Jeff Bezos, Kanye West, Mike Bloomberg, Elon Musk, Uber, Warren Buffet, Apple and Bill Gates.
The hackers used the accounts to request money be sent to a Bitcoin wallet, which raked in tens of thousands of dollars in minutes.
Senator Josh Hawley wrote to Twitter following the massive security breach to explain the extent of the breach and how this was possible.
Following the hacker attack on Twitter user Haseeb Awan posted this claiming the hack was accomplished by the work of a Twitter insider.
Here is one of the screenshots of the Twitter panel for a particular user.
The Twitter “hack” revealed the apparatus behind Twitter censorship of users.
Mike Cernovich argued Twitter manually edits trends something they previously said did not happen.
Yesterday’s “hack” revealed Twitter manually edits trends and manufactures content, something they previously testified did not happen!
And Twitter is taking down tweets that reveal their lies.
Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey may have lied during congressional testimony.
Twitter has a long history of censoring and shadow-baning conservative voices.
https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/202...as-tech-giant/