{"id":16020,"date":"2020-07-16T01:07:36","date_gmt":"2020-07-15T23:07:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/?p=16020"},"modified":"2020-07-16T01:07:36","modified_gmt":"2020-07-15T23:07:36","slug":"todays-twitter-hack-is-new-take-on-nigerian-prince-scam-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/2020\/07\/16\/todays-twitter-hack-is-new-take-on-nigerian-prince-scam-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Today\u2019s Twitter Hack is New Take on \u201cNigerian Prince\u201d Scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t send bitcoin to celebrities&#8230; or to random people for that matter. This afternoon a number of <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SwiftOnSecurity\/status\/1283518217839935489\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">high profile Twitter accounts were taken over<\/a>, including Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Apple, Jeff Bezos, and Kanye West, and the event appears to be ongoing. Each displayed a message saying they wanted to &#8220;give back&#8221; by doubling the bitcoin that they are sent. The messages all appear to have the same bitcoin wallet address.<\/p>\n<p>This is reminiscent of the &#8220;Nigerian prince&#8221; scams, a form of advance-fee scam where an email asks for help with a small sum of money in order to obtain a larger sum. Those usually come in as spam emails which most people are wise to at this point. However, blindly following celebrities on Twitter may still deliver a good dose of na\u00efvet\u00e9 when those platforms are misused.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"422418\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2020\/07\/15\/todays-twitter-hack-is-new-take-on-nigerian-prince-scam\/screenshot-from-2020-07-15-16-27-01\/\" data-orig-file=\"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1_Screenshot-from-2020-07-15-16-27-01.png\" data-orig-size=\"925,408\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Screenshot from 2020-07-15 16-27-01\" data-image-description=\"\" data-medium-file=\"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1_Screenshot-from-2020-07-15-16-27-01.png?w=400\" data-large-file=\"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-from-2020-07-15-16-27-01.png\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-422418 lazyload\" data-src=\"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/Screenshot-from-2020-07-15-16-27-01.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"353\" data-srcset=\"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1_Screenshot-from-2020-07-15-16-27-01.png 925w, http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1_Screenshot-from-2020-07-15-16-27-01.png?resize=250,110 250w, http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1_Screenshot-from-2020-07-15-16-27-01.png?resize=400,176 400w, http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/1_Screenshot-from-2020-07-15-16-27-01.png?resize=800,353 800w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 800px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 800\/353;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Bitcoin transactions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blockchain.com\/btc\/address\/bc1qxy2kgdygjrsqtzq2n0yrf2493p83kkfjhx0wlh\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">can be viewed publicly<\/a> and this wallet is showing 11.8 BTC in and 5.8 BTC out in a total of 288 transactions. The net is roughly 6 bitcoin or $55k USD at the time of writing. Twitter&#8217;s response appears to have locked down all verified accounts from publishing new tweets. They retain the ability to retweet and delete existing tweets.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Main image screenshot sources:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Fiction49613028\/status\/1283503759755055104\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@Fiction49613028<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/isouravsethi\/status\/1283505527457103872\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@isouravsethi<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AbhishekKarnek\/status\/1283507435013992449\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">@AbhishekKarnek<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>source <a href=\"https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2020\/07\/15\/todays-twitter-hack-is-new-take-on-nigerian-prince-scam\/\">https:\/\/hackaday.com\/2020\/07\/15\/todays-twitter-hack-is-new-take-on-nigerian-prince-scam\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Don&#8217;t send bitcoin to celebrities&#8230; or to random people for that matter. This afternoon a number of high profile Twitter accounts were taken over, including Joe Biden, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Apple, Jeff Bezos, and Kanye West, and the event<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/2020\/07\/16\/todays-twitter-hack-is-new-take-on-nigerian-prince-scam-2\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Today\u2019s Twitter Hack is New Take on \u201cNigerian Prince\u201d Scam<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16020"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16026,"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16020\/revisions\/16026"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cornay.co.za\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}