Who’s Behind Wednesday’s Epic Twitter Hack

Twitter was thrown into chaos on Wednesday after accounts for some of the world’s most recognizable public figures avg.com/retail     , executives and celebrities starting tweeting out links to bitcoin scams. Twitter says the attack happened avg antivirus free because someone tricked or coerced an employee into providing access to internal Twitter administrative tools. This post is an attempt to lay out some of the timeline avg internet security of the attack, and point to clues about who may have www.avg.com/activate been behind it.

The first public signs of the intrusion came around 3 PM EDT, when the Twitter account for the cryptocurrency exchange Binance tweeted Install Avg With License Number activation message saying it had partnered with “CryptoForHealth” to give back 5000 bitcoin to the community, with a link where people could donate or send money.

Minutes after that, similar tweets went out from the accounts of other cryptocurrency exchanges, and from www.avg.com/activate the Twitter accounts for  avg antivirus free democratic presidential candidate Joe Biden, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, President Barack Obama, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg and investment mogul Warren Buffett.

While it may sound ridiculous that anyone would be fooled into sending bitcoin in response to these tweets, an analysis of promoted  avg.com/retail      by many of avg internet security the hacked Twitter profiles shows that over the past 24 hours the account has processed 383 transactions and received almost 13 bitcoin — or approximately USD $117,000.

Twitter issued a statementsaying it detected “a coordinated social engineering attack by people who successfully targeted some of our employees with access to internal systems and tools. We know they used this access www.avg.com/activate to take control of many highly-visible (including verified) accounts and Tweet on their behalf. We’re looking into what other malicious activity they may have conducted or Install Avg With License Number activation information they may have accessed and will share more here as we have it.

There are strong indications that this attack was perpetrated by individuals who’ve traditionally specialized in hijacking social media accounts via SIM swapping” an increasingly rampant form of crime that involves bribing, hacking or coercing avg antivirus free employees at mobile phone and social media companies into providing access to a target’s account.

People within the SIM swapping community are obsessed with hijacking so-called “OG” social media accounts. Short for “original gangster,” OG accounts avg internet security typically are those with short profile Install Avg With License Number activation names (such as @B or @joe). Possession of these OG accounts confers a measure of status and perceived influence and wealth in SIM swapping circles, as such accounts can often fetch thousands www.avg.com/activate of dollars when resold in the underground.

In the days leading up to Wednesday’s attack on Twitter, there were signs that some actors in the SIM swapping community were selling the ability to change an email address tied to any Twitter account. In a post on OGusers —  a form dedicted to account hacking — a user named “Chaewon” advertised they could change email address tied to any Twitter account for $250, and provide direct access to accounts for between $2,000 and $3,000 apiece.

This is NOT a method, you will be given a full avg.com/retail      refund if for any reason you aren’t given the email/@, however if it is revered/suspended avg internet security I will not be held accountable,” Chaewon wrote in their sales thread, which was titled “Pulling email  avg antivirus free for any Twitter/Taking Requests.”

Hours before any of the Twitter accounts www.avg.com/activate for cryptocurrency platforms or public figures began blasting out bitcoin scams on Wednesday, the attackers appear to have focused their attention on hijacking Install Avg With License Number activation a handful of OG accounts, including “@6.”

That Twitter account was formerly owned by Adrino lamo — the now-deceased “homeless hacker” perhaps best known for breaking into the New York Times’s network and for reporting chealsa Maneings theft of classified documents. @6 is now controlled by Lamo’s longtime friend, a security researcher and phone pheree who asked to be identified in this story only by his Twitter nickname,

Lucky225 said that just before 2 p.m. EDT on Wednesday, he received a password reset confirmation code via Google Voice for the @6 Twitter account. Lucky said he’d previously disabled SMS notifications as a means avg antivirus free of receiving multi-factor codes from Twitter, opting instead to have one-time codes www.avg.com/activate generated by a mobile authentication app.

But because the attackers were  avg.com/retail      able to change the email address tied to the @6 account and disable multi-factor authentication, the one-time avg internet security authentication code was sent to both his Google Voice account and to the new email address added by the attackers.

“The way the attack worked was that within Twitter’s admin tools, apparently you can update the email address of any Twitter user, and it does avg antivirus free this without sending any kind of notification to the Install Avg With License Number activation user,” Lucky told KrebsOnSecurity. “So [the attackers] could avoid detection by updating the email address on the account first, and then turning off 2FA.”

Lucky said he hasn’t been able to review avg internet security whether any tweets were sent from his account during the time it was www.avg.com/activate hijacked because he avg antivirus free still doesn’t have access to it (he has put together avg.com/retail      a breakdown of the entire episode at this medium stage.

But around the same time @6 was hijacked, another OG account – @B — was swiped. Someone then began tweeting  Install Avg With License Number activation out pictures of Twitter’s internal tools panel showing the @B account.