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A new phishing campaign spotted by Abnormal Security attempts to trick people with a phony Twitter security notification. A new phishing campaign analyzed by the security provider Abnormal Security shows how the attackers are taking advantage of Twitter users to steal account credentials.
Verizon Media tops the list with $9.4 million paid out since it started its program in 2014, with its top bounty coming in at $70,000. That said, PayPal follows as a distant second with Verizon Media in terms of bounty volume.
Twitter apologized on Tuesday for sticking business clients' billing information into browser cache - a spot where the uninvited could have had a peek, regardless of not having the right to see it. On 20 May, Twitter updated the instructions that Twitter sends to browser cache, thereby putting a stopper in the leak.
Twitter has permanently banned the account of Distributed Denial of Secrets after it posted links to stolen information belonging to hundreds of law enforcement organizations in the United States. Distributed Denial of Secrets, a WikiLeaks-style organization whose goal is the "Free transmission of data in the public interest," recently leaked roughly 270 GB of information on more than 200 police departments, fusion centers, the FBI and other law enforcement organizations.
Twitter has started informing business customers that their billing information may have been exposed in what the company has described as a "Data security incident" affecting its ads and analytics services. "If you used a shared computer, it is possible that if someone used the computer after you they could have seen the information stored in the browser's cache," Twitter told customers, clarifying that cached data is typically stored for a limited time, such as 30 days.
As for the Russian operations, 1,152 suspended accounts were associated with a media outlet called "Current Policy," known for pushing state-backed political propaganda within Russia, said Twitter. "A network of accounts related to this media operation was suspended for violations of our platform manipulation policy, specifically cross-posting and amplifying content in an inauthentic, coordinated manner for political ends," according to Twitter.
Twitter on Friday announced that it took down more than 30,000 accounts pertaining to three networks associated with China, Turkey, and Russia state-linked manipulation activities. A total of 32,242 accounts were added to the social platform's archive of state-linked information operations, while the accounts themselves, along with all of the content associated with them, have been permanently removed from Twitter.
Just about to share an article with a sensational headline? Stop! Did you at least read it first? Sharing clickbait containing spurious content without bothering to check it over is a perennial problem for attention-challenged social media users and now Twitter wants to help stop it.
NortonLifeLock this week released the beta version of a free browser extension that allows Twitter users to easily identify bots on the social media platform. BotSight was created by the NortonLifeLock Research Group, formerly known as Symantec Research Labs - the NortonLifeLock brand was created after Symantec sold its enterprise security unit and Symantec brand to Broadcom for $10.7 billion.
Buh-bye, original way of tweeting: Twitter said that for the most part, it's turned off its Twitter via texting service. Besides a few countries that rely on the feature, Twitter's turned off its ability to take in our SMS messages and turn them into tweets.