Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by ortusdux on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @04:52PM (#23851604)

I've seen several live streams on youtube that replay spacex launches and display the same offer. Viewership goes up during actual launches. The one I found had 10k active viewers and the address they linked to had brought in 2btc in under an hour.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by monokh on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @04:56PM (#23851678)

They do often supply some coins to themselves to create the illusion that there is activity.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by bogdanu on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @04:57PM (#23851681)

I few weeks ago I saw two with 50k each...

Google has to step up it's game because their platforms aren't safe anymore.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by Simon_says on Thursday July 16, 2020 @12:18AM (#23855719)

That's like blaming the post office for chain letters.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by ShorsHammer on Thursday July 16, 2020 @05:00AM (#23857099)

Not really, the post office would actually do something if you said "this person is sending scams through your system". They'd do a lot more if 100 people walked in saying the same.

Google does nothing despite thousands of people reporting it.

It's bizarre how they ban completely innocuous stuff and allow the blatant scams to continue despite it being drawn to their attention though reports and twitter constantly?

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