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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.
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.
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 ...
Oct. 27—For Jody Hagemann, the senior director of sales engineering for the Northeast Division of Comcast Business, issues of cybersecurity and, specifically, of phishing are of the utmost concern.
Beware Of This Latest Phishing Attack Disguised As An Official Email Sent By Google The scam email pretending to be from Target wants you to believe that you are a lucky winner.
The term "phishing" is said to have been coined by the well known spammer and hacker in the mid-90s, Khan C. Smith. [3] The first recorded mention of the term is found in the hacking tool AOHell (according to its creator), which included a function for attempting to steal the passwords or financial details of America Online users.
As of July 30, 2020, Twitter will block URLs in tweets that point to external websites that contain malicious content (such as malware and phishing content) as well as hate speech, speech encouraging violence, terrorism, child sexual exploitation, breaches of privacy, and other similar content that is already banned as part of the content of ...