The recent sensational incident of Twitter Hack shacking the cybersecurity community unlike any other attack that Twitter has ever faced. So many top profile influential profiles were abused to scam million of users and steal thousands of dollars in Bitcoin.
After the detailed investigation, Twitter has released a statement and clarified that the hackers downloaded the data from 8 of the compromised twitter handles via their “Your Twitter Data” tool that provides an account owner with a summary of their Twitter account details and activity.
The initial attack was launched via the traditional social engineering method through which attackers targeted the Twitter employees and manipulate them to perform a certain action and gathered confidential information.
The investigation clarifies that the attacker compromised only a small number of employees and used their credentials to access Twitter’s internal tools, even they were successfully bypassed the 2-factor authentication.
The Twitter investigation report says “As of now, we know that they accessed tools only available to our internal support teams to target 130 Twitter accounts. For 45 of those accounts, the attackers were able to initiate a password reset, login to the account, and send Tweets.”
When we look at the Bitcoin scam Tweets that posted in the top follower’s profile, attackers carefully picked the accounts which fall under the high reputation, most ..
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