I definitely think this is China shooting a shooting a warning shot across our bow. Would be sabre-rattling after yesterdays EO against china.
"You have no idea how compromised you are. You're lucky we did not go after POTUS account."
Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack
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Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack
#492Whoever did this is going to have a serious price on their heads. I doubt the pay off is worth it unless they are a state actor flexing their muscle.
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#493Earlier quoted context omitted.
Or a distraction while a bigger hack is going on?
Bingo, they're probably walking away with all of Twitter's internal data as we speak...
Alternative take, it could be a distraction while they short various stocks. Obviously 12 BTC/100K isn't worth hacking Twitter. Perhaps if everyone is watching the Bitcoin address, they may miss the real heist.
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#494Twitter 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.
They just disabled tweeting from verified accounts. Right now I have more power than Elon.
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#495Given 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.
Maybe the dude shorted the Twitter stock?
Yeah, I'm not sure there is much to be gained from leaking internal data (are DMs that valuable?). The actual scam is executed so poorly that it can't be the main goal too. "Prooving" you have a good exploit by throwing it away is also not plausible.
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#496Given 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.
How about the possibility of a Bitcoin marketing campaign?
Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack
#497Given 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 could just be a relatively unsophisticated actor who stumbled upon a serious vulnerability and didn't know enough to market it to, eg, a state actor or whatever.
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Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack
#498It appears Twitter has now prevented verified accounts from posting. Us schlubs can now run the asylum for a while.
Re: Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack
#499Given 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 could just be a relatively unsophisticated actor who stumbled upon a serious vulnerability and didn't know enough to market it to, eg, a state actor or whatever.
But then why set up a rather simply scam instead of getting the bug bounty from twitter? That wallet is currently sitting at about 150k USD and these are rather hard to pay out. Why not just go for 100k USD bug bounty, completely legal and with fame?
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#500Twitter 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.
Well, no verified user can tweet at the moment: https://twitter.com/TwitterSupport/status/128352640014683751...