“This attack was based on a significant and concerted attempt to trick certain employees and exploit human vulnerabilities to gain access to our internal systems,” Twitter said in a tweet.
A phishing attack is a type of cyber attack in which hackers try to trick victims into opening malicious emails or links disguised as legitimate web content.
In addition to restricting access to administrative systems, Twitter (TWTR) He said he was also accelerating the deployment of “security workflows” that had already been in progress.
The July 15 security incident led to the takeover of the accounts of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Jeff Bezos and many others. The compromised accounts were used to promote a bitcoin scam.
While the scope of the incident was enormous in its own right, it could simply be the tip of a very large iceberg with vast security implications. Cybersecurity experts and policymakers now fear the bitcoin scam may mask a far more troubling data breach involving the personal communications of the world’s most powerful people.
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