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Twitter employees were spear-phished over the phone

31

Jul

2020

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 […]

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Twitter hack raises alarm among government officials, security experts

21

Jul

2020

A hack of Twitter last week shook the foundations of the internet, cybersecurity, and political worlds. A gang of young people purportedly obsessed with OGusers, early Twitter adopters with one or two characters in their handles, ostensibly targeted 130 high-profile accounts and reset passwords and sent messages from the accounts of 45 “celebrities.” The hacks […]

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Hackers Accessed, Downloaded Twitter User Data in Recent Attack

20

Jul

2020

The attack was identified on Wednesday, July 15, when Twitter discovered that the hackers managed to access some of its internal systems and tools and abused those to take control of several high-profile accounts. Immediately, the company suspended the accounts it believed to be compromised and launched an investigation into the incident, which revealed that […]

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