The hackers who two weeks ago took control of a whole series of Twitter accounts have gained access to them following a few spear phishing attacks targeting employees.
This is what Twitter reveals in an update. In the attack on July 15, hackers got hold of a whole host of accounts of famous people and started tweeting about ‘bitcoin scams’.
In a new press release posted on his blog, Twitter is now announcing that the attack has materialized, after a few of its staff fell victim to spear phishing attacks. By this type of attack, we try to deceive very specifically targeted people, for example by calling or emailing them, while pretending to be colleagues, in order to seize login data (connection).
We already knew that the hacking had been committed via Twitter’s own management tools and that the attackers had therefore had access to the accounts of administrators or employees of the Twitter helpdesk itself.
Twitter is now reporting that the hackers were targeting 130 accounts and have started tweeting from 45 of them. Private messages from 36 accounts were examined. This is all information that had already been given. But Twitter now adds that all data uploaded was for just seven accounts, down from eight previously.
In the hack two weeks ago, accounts of prominent people including Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos, and Barack Obama tweeted about bitcoin, in an attempt to entice people to wire money. money in the account of hackers. According to the analysis of the bitcoin address of the tweets, the hackers would have received some $ 110,000 in bitcoins.
This is what Twitter reveals in an update. In the July 15 attack, hackers got hold of a host of accounts from known people and began tweeting about ‘bitcoin scams.’ In a new statement posted to his blog, Twitter announced Now that the attack has manifested itself, after a few of his staff fell victim to spear phishing attacks. By this type of attack, we try to fool very specifically targeted people, for example by calling or emailing them, while pretending to be colleagues, in order to seize login data. already knew that the hack had been committed via Twitter’s own management tools and that the attackers had therefore gained access to the accounts of administrators or employees of the Twitter helpdesk itself. Twitter now reports that the hackers were targeting 130 accounts and that ‘they started tweeting at 45 from ente them. Private messages from 36 accounts were examined. This is all information that had already been given. But Twitter added today that all of the data uploaded was for just seven accounts, down from eight previously. In the hack two weeks ago, the accounts of prominent figures such as Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Jeff Bezos and Barack Obama, started tweeting about bitcoin, in an attempt to trick people into transferring money into hackers’ accounts. According to the analysis of the bitcoin address of the tweets, the hackers would have received some $ 110,000 in bitcoins.
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