It looks like thee is an ongoing attack on some prominent accounts on Twitter. Accounts belonging to Presidential aspirant Joe Biden, Microsoft founder Bill Gates, Former President, Tesla CEO Elon Musk, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos and Apple among others have been hijacked for cryptocurrency fraud purposes. Hackers are asking users to make payments in Bitcoin and Twitter is saying people should beware.
There is little we know about this at this time as Twitter just announced that it is aware and is working on a quick fix. The tweets by the hackers can been soliciting donations via Bitcoin and it looks like some have fallen for the scam, again we don’t have specific numbers at this time.
A Bill Gates tweet for example says “Everyone is asking me to give back”, and now is the time promising to double all payments to a Bitcoin address for the next 30 minutes.
A Bill Gates spokesperson told CNN that “We can confirm that this tweet was not sent by Bill Gates, this appears to be part of a larger issue that Twitter is facing. Twitter is aware and working to restore the account.”
The hackers appear to be using prominent verified account in order to lure unsuspecting users to making fictitious donations.
Paul Balo is the founder of TechBooky and a highly skilled wireless communications professional with a strong background in cloud computing, offering extensive experience in designing, implementing, and managing wireless communication systems.
To provide the best experiences, we use technologies like cookies to store and/or access device information. Consenting to these technologies will allow us to process data such as browsing behaviour or unique IDs on this site. Not consenting or withdrawing consent, may adversely affect certain features and functions.
Functional
Always active
The technical storage or access is strictly necessary for the legitimate purpose of enabling the use of a specific service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user, or for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network.
Preferences
The technical storage or access is necessary for the legitimate purpose of storing preferences that are not requested by the subscriber or user.
Statistics
The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for statistical purposes.The technical storage or access that is used exclusively for anonymous statistical purposes. Without a subpoena, voluntary compliance on the part of your Internet Service Provider, or additional records from a third party, information stored or retrieved for this purpose alone cannot usually be used to identify you.
Marketing
The technical storage or access is required to create user profiles to send advertising, or to track the user on a website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
