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Twitter has finally shared more details about how the perpetrators of the recent hijacking of high-profile accounts to push a Bitcoin scam managed to pull it off.
The way in
To pull off the attack, attackers had to obtain access to Twitter’s internal network AND specific employee credentials that granted them access to internal support tools.
“The social engineering that occurred on July 15, 2020, targeted a small number of employees through a phone spear phishing attack,” Twitter explained.
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