The Twittersphere went into overdrive on Wednesday as a bunch of prominent, verified Twitter accounts were hijacked and started promoting a COVID-19 cryptocurrency giveaway scam.
The attackers simultaneously compromised Twitter accounts of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos, Joe Biden, Mike Bloomberg, Apple, Uber, as well as those of cryptocurrency exchanges Binance, Coinbase, KuCoin and Gemini, the CoinDesk news site and other top crypto accounts.
Twitter reacted by locking down the affected accounts, removing Tweets posted by the attackers, and limiting functionality for all verified accounts, but not quickly enough to prevent many gullible users falling for the scam and sending money to the attackers.
The effect
“The accounts tweeted that they ‘partnered with’ a company called CryptoForHealth. The domain for this website was registered on July 15. The websit ..
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