Security News > 2020 > March > Hijacked Twitter accounts used to advertise face masks

As of Tuesday, hijacked Twitter accounts were spewing out hundreds of tweets hawking a dodgy looking face mask/toilet paper/digital forehead thermometer online store, according to Motherboard's Vice.

On Tuesday, the journalist confirmed on Twitter that his account had been hijacked and used to send out direct messages, purportedly about face masks.

After the hijacker had control of Feathers's account, they used it to send a tweet advertising the masks website.

In short, the hijacked Twitter accounts being used to hype face mask sites are yet another wrinkle in what the World Health Organization has dubbed the Infodemic - a virtual plague of misinformation and fraud that it's fighting right alongside the viral pandemic.

Twitter told Motherboard that it had taken action against a number of accounts and URLs around the suspicious activity.

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