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The miscreants also managed to access the Twitter Direct Messages in 36 accounts, and to download Twitter account data for seven accounts. "Increasingly we rely on platforms like Twitter to receive news and other information that is important to our lives," said US Attorney for the Northern District of California David Anderson in the video statement below.
Three individuals have been charged for their alleged roles in the July 15 hack on Twitter, an incident that resulted in Twitter profiles for some of the world's most recognizable celebrities, executives and public figures sending out tweets advertising a bitcoin scam. From there, Twitter said, the attackers targeted 130 Twitter accounts, tweeting from 45 of them, accessing the direct messages of 36 accounts, and downloading the Twitter data of seven.
According to reports, Minnesota-based business travel company CWT is the latest victim of the latest trend in ransomware. We're probably at the point where we need to stop calling them just "Ransomware" attacks, because it's increasingly common that there's a lot more to these attacks than just locking you out of your files, which is how we usually think of ransomware.
UPDATE. Multiple high-severity vulnerabilities in the Grandstream HT800 series of Analog Telephone Adaptors threaten home office and midrange users alike, with outages, eavesdropping and device takeover. The HT800 series of ATAs is designed for everyone from home or small-office users to medium-sized businesses, looking to connect their analog telephone devices to a VoIP network, unified communications system or other IP-based communications infrastructure.
A 17-year-old Florida boy was arrested and charged with last week's Twitter hack. News articles. Boing Boing post. Florida state attorney press release. This is a developing story. Post any...
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US prosecutors on Friday announced they have charged three people, one of them from Britain, for roles in hijacking celebrity Twitter accounts and tricking people out of money. The US attorney's office in California said 19-year-old Mason "Chaewon" Sheppard of Britain along with Nima Fazeli, 22, of Florida were facing criminal charges in the case.
Authorities have charged three people who were allegedly behind with the recent high-profile Twitter hack - including a 17-year-old Tampa, Florida teen that they also arrested and say is the "Mastermind" behind the attack. The three are allegedly behind the high-profile July 15 Twitter hack that compromised 130 accounts of high-profile users such as Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Apple and Uber - to promote a bogus advance-fee cryptocurrency deal.
A Florida teen hacked the Twitter accounts of prominent politicians, celebrities and technology moguls to scam people around globe out of more than $100,000 in Bitcoin, authorities said Friday. Twitter previously said hackers used the phone to fool the social media company's employees into giving them access.
Notice the copy of Data and Goliath just behind the head of Maine Senator Angus King. This demonstrates the importance of a vibrant color and a large font.