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Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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probably a social media manager api keys

But when you post a tweet via api, the tweet will include the app's name at the bottom? The screenshot in the article has "Twitter Web App" at the bottom.

Its not hard to believe that a group with the ability to hijack the twitter accounts of some of the world's most influential people could also hijack the "posted by" metadata.

Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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This is what happens when you put all of your communication eggs into a single basket. Twitter needed to be taken down a couple of pegs. I think accounts of a high enough profile may want to closely examine the ActivityPub ecosystem.

Us politicians using twitter to communicate en masse is irresponsible in of itself.

So unprofessional

Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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https://twitter.com/search?q=bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p8... Added "filter:verified" to query Edit: Add @JoeBiden to the list.

I can't believe Twitter haven't managed to stop this yet!

I can not believe they don’t just turn the whole thing off while figure this out. Hubris.

Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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Given how huge this hack is, and how little the BTC reward is going to be, I'm tempting to think this is either: - a test of a new hacking system - a demonstration to a big client - a first shot to threat some entity - a diversion while they get the real loot And that the BTC messages are just a way to justify it so it looks like a simple scam. Such a hack is worth way, WAY more than the few BTC it could bring.

It's possible this was conducted by somebody who underestimated the hack's value, or isn't even really doing it for monetary gain rather than to just stir chaos

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Twitter should suspend the entire platform until they can credibly fix this and prevent it in the future. An attacker could drop AMZN stock by 10% in minutes with just the wrong tweet from Bezos.

Many powerful actors, including state actors, would love to see Twitter, as a political instrument, go away. It could even be our own, or a dissident group within our own, IC. If someone can get a presidential candidate and an ex-president's twitter account to say what they want, then that is pretty much the end of Twitter as a political tool.

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You would think they would do something with Trump if it was arbitrary accounts. But maybe his has additional protections

I believe I read something (trying to find it) about Twitter internally having additional protections on Trump's account. Only a handful of people within Twitter can touch it.

It was likely after this incident:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-41854482

Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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You mean shutdown Twitter? I think that's a bit extreme in this case.

Twitter used to go down all the time. Just put up the fail whale for old time's sake.

that would actually add a little charm to this shit storm. A curious devil inside me would like to be a fly on the wall at twitter right now.

Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

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Given how huge this hack is, and how little the BTC reward is going to be, I'm tempting to think this is either: - a test of a new hacking system - a demonstration to a big client - a first shot to threat some entity - a diversion while they get the real loot And that the BTC messages are just a way to justify it so it looks like a simple scam. Such a hack is worth way, WAY more than the few BTC it could bring.

>Such a hack is worth way, WAY more than the few BTC it could bring. lol tons of ppl have been scammed. If by 'little' you means hundreds of k. In some Eastern European country that can last a lifetime.

They could have probably made a 100k by disclosing this to Twitter. The reward/risk graph seems concave down and not convex up.
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