a multi-Billionaire Jeff Bezos, bill gates, Elon Musk, Warren Buffett, Michael Bloomberg, ex-US President Barack Obama, the candidate in US presidents from democratic party Joseph R. Biden, American rapper Kanye West and other celebrities through their “certified” microblogging on Twitter on Wednesday evening, almost at the same time appealed to tens of millions of subscribers with a tempting offer. Its essence – to transfer to the specified e-wallet, the cryptocurrency in the amount of 1 thousand dollars and a few minutes ago to double my money in bitcoin.
a Unique “offer they can’t refuse” was true only for half an hour, it was stated on behalf of well-known personalities. Such a suspiciously generous offer, according to the latest data, not really hesitate to have used hundreds of Twitter users who “swallowed” by the thrown rod, quickly followed by no less than 118 thousand dollars at the specified address.
And only six hours later, Twitter admitted that the company was the victim of “a coordinated attack by social engineering” by unidentified persons that are “targeting our employees with access to sensitive internal administrative systems”.
at the same time, the social network took the unprecedented step of temporarily limiting thousands of its users the ability to post comments and change the passwords from their pages. It is this fact, not caused financial damage to the most puzzling experts in the field of cybersecurity. According to them, occurred as a result of the attack a failure on communication channels is one of the leading social networks of the world looks scary because this could happen again in times of crisis and become an additional factor for the development of chaos.
In fact, the latest victim of hackers at any time may become the official Twitter account of the state structures of various countries, experts in the Internet industry no doubt. It is only a matter of time and the right timing to attack, they say. Slow response on Twitter to the incident distressing incident and “unlearned lessons” in 2018, when there was a similar, but much smaller-scale attack, only emphasizes the severity of the potential crisis.
currently, the number of victims of hackers individuals and companies in the U.S. continues to grow. It is known that in addition to the above celebrities have also been hacked and the accounts of companies like Apple, Uber and Bloomberg.
Twitter has assured that immediately blocked “compromised” account and eliminated fraudulent posts intruders. Now the company is internal proceedings about the way in which hackers gained access to well protected by complex passwords and siStamou two-stage authentication to the accounts of famous people and companies. According to the former employee of the national security Agency USA Mike Chapple, track made in bitcoin anonymous transfer is impossible and a dead-end investigation. Much greater benefits to be gained from the careful study of contractors and service providers Twitter, which could become the “weakest link” and the intermediate victim of the attack. Another advanced version is associated with a possible “insider” – employee of the company who deliberately gave a closed user information to hackers. Finally, the specialists mention “remote work”, which because of the epidemic of the coronavirus have been translated many employees of Twitter, which objectively made it easier for the criminals, the implementation of “phishing attacks” at home and less secure computers and communication channels with the Central office
the Primary analysis of the motives of the attackers indicates solely on the selfish component of the perfect high-profile cyber crimes. However, according to U.S. media reports, we cannot completely rule out politics – we have all heard about the recent high-profile conflict of the President of the United States Donald trump and company Twitter, which last month began arbitrarily censor “aggressive and inflammatory” posts of the American leader. A blockbuster account of the tramp in this social network that is subscribed to 83.5 million readers, the result was not compromised. Unlike his opponent in the upcoming presidential election, former Vice President of the United States Joseph Biden, his page was successfully “stolen” the cyberswindlers. And financial harm openly in conflict with the head of the White house company Twitter yet to be counted, after all, amid reports of mass hacking of its shares fell sharply in price.
