It’s been more than 48 hours since Twitter was targeted in the largest hack of the company’s 14-year history. Yet, little is still known about how a hacker or group of hackers gained access to the accounts of former President Barack Obama, Elon Musk, and Kanye West, among others — some of the platform’s biggest verified users — in order to tweet out a Bitcoin scam.
But, one Twitter user involved in the infosec community has a very good idea about how at least one major part of the hack went down. So let’s break it down.
someone has managed to hack a slew of large verified twitter accounts to spread a bitcoin scam. they’ve made around $56k so far it seems..pic.twitter.com/wjjA7mHqCW
— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) July 15, 2020 Read more…
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