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On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were reportedly compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. [1] [2] Twitter and other media sources confirmed that the perpetrators had gained access to Twitter's administrative tools so that they could alter the accounts themselves and post the tweets directly.
Twitter has provided an update on what happened the day the social media giant lost control over its platform. Twitter Says ‘Phone Spear Phishing’ Let Hackers Gain Employee Credentials Skip to ...
Clark is widely regarded as the "mastermind" of the 2020 Twitter account hijacking, [5] [6] an event in which Clark worked with Mason Sheppard and Nima Fazeli to compromise 130 high-profile Twitter accounts to push a cryptocurrency scam involving bitcoin along with seizing "OG" (short for original) usernames to sell on OGUsers.
Phishing attacks have evolved in the 2020s to include elements of social engineering, as demonstrated by the July 15, 2020, Twitter breach. In this case, a 17-year-old hacker and accomplices set up a fake website resembling Twitter's internal VPN provider used by remote working employees.
Cyber criminals are getting savvier, with a trend called "spear phishing". Here’s how to tease out a legit email from a fake. How to spot 'spear phishing', an insidious cybercrime trend
Twitter followed up Musk's short email with an internal document explaining among other things that it wasn't a "phishing attempt," per The WSJ.
Attackers who broke into TD Ameritrade's database and took 6.3 million email addresses (though they were not able to obtain social security numbers, account numbers, names, addresses, dates of birth, phone numbers and trading activity) also wanted the account usernames and passwords, so they launched a follow-up spear phishing attack. [27] 2008
May 17: Estonia recovers from massive denial-of-service attack [62] June 13: FBI Operation Bot Roast finds over 1 million botnet victims [63] June 21: A spear phishing incident at the Office of the Secretary of Defense steals sensitive U.S. defense information, leading to significant changes in identity and message-source verification at OSD ...