Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultaneous attack

Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by FanaHOVA on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:08PM (#23851867)

I'm guessing a social media manager application got compromised, or an exploit in Twitter's API that allows you to post as someone else. It's hard to see all these different accounts falling for the same scam + not having 2FA, etc.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by amrrs on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:17PM (#23851985)

I wonder if Elon is a type of guy who uses apps like Buffer or Social media manager app. It looks more like some exploit within Twitter which they've leveraged and orchestrated a coordinated tweet attack

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by macNchz on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:30PM (#23852167)

They seem to have more access than purely posting as the user, I'm seeing reports that the attacker has changed the email addresses associated with the accounts to protonmail addresses.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by zmmmmm on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @07:32PM (#23853783)

Surely any individual client would have had their api keys immediately blocked. It would have to be more like a compromise of, say, the API key back end that allows them to surveil logins over a period of time, and the accounts we are seeing hacked is what they scraped.

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Re:Hackers take over prominent Twitter accounts in simultane... by Scoundreller on Wednesday July 15, 2020 @05:32PM (#23852190)

All the big names hit said "Twitter Web App" as the tweet source.

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