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🔥 WATCH OUT 🔥

Many popular #cryptocurrency-related verified Twitter accounts got simultaneously compromised and tweeted an identical "Crypto For Health" #SCAM message.

Hacked people and organizations include Gemini, #Binance, Binance's CEO, #Coinbase, CoinDesk, and KuCoin.
Elon Musk's account has also been compromised, tweeting a similar cryptocurrency scam.

Keep an eye on this #Bitcoin address: btc.com/bc1qxy2kgdygjr…

Does someone has found a zero-day bug in @Twitter?

#infosec #cybersecurity
Bill Gates too...

OMG, What's happening!

Don't fall for these SCAMS.

Inform Others.

Hey @Twitter, can you remove all these tweets ASAP?
DO NOT PAY; IT'S A SCAM!

The #bitcoin address used in this scam has already received 6.01 BTC — nearly $55,000.
🥴Apple too... Who's next?

#What_the_2020
Amazon's Founder @JeffBezos too!

This is now officially...

THE BIGGEST HACK IN TWITTER'S HISTORY.
Bloomberg's founder, Michael Bloomberg!

This is not fun.

Many are falling victims and losing money rapidly.

Within the last 15 minutes, the attacker's bitcoin address has received 5 more BTC, now totaling the fraud amount to over $1,06,000.
Twitter issued a quick statement.
Some pointed out that Twitter attackers took complete control over targeted high-profile verified accounts by 'somehow' changing their associated email IDs and 2FA phone numbers.

If so, they must have also gained access to the private Direct Messages of them.

More to come???
List of hacked high-profile Twitter accounts:

- Jeff Bezos
- Elon Musk
- Warren Buffett
- Barack Obama
- Michael Bloomberg
- Kanye West
- Wiz Khalifa
- Apple
- Uber
- JoeBiden
- Bitcoin
- Coinbase
- Binance
- Gemini
- Kucoin
- Coindesk
- Ripple
- Justin Sun
- Charlee Lee
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WARNING 🔥 CVE-2020-1350 (CVSS 10)

A critical 17-year-old 'wormable' RCE #vulnerability affects Windows DNS Servers (2013 to 2019 editions) that could let unauthenticated hackers gain 'Domain Admin' privileges on the targeted servers.

Details — thehackernews.com/2020/07/window…

#infosec
Researchers confirm the new #Windows vulnerability, dubbed 'SigRed,' is a wormable bug, allowing attackers to launch #malware attacks that can spread from one vulnerable computer to another without any human interaction.

#cybersecurity #sysadmins #microsoft #informationsecurity
If exploited, #SigRed Windows Server #vulnerability enables hackers to intercept and manipulate users' emails and network traffic, make services unavailable, harvest users' credentials, and eventually compromise an organization's entire IT infrastructure.

thehackernews.com/2020/07/window…
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Beware #Android Users!

A new unpatched #vulnerability — dubbed Strandhogg — in Android could let malicious apps take extensive control over your device & steal your login credentials.

Details: thehackernews.com/2019/12/strand…

Dozens of apps are already exploiting this flaw in the wild.
@Swati_THN 1) #Phishing Attacks:

#Strandhogg task hijacking vulnerability can be exploited to display a fake user interface (UI) while tricking users into thinking they are using a legitimate app, making it easy for the malware to steal their credentials using spoofed login interfaces.
@Swati_THN 2) Fraudulently Requesting Permissions:

A malicious app can also escalate its capabilities significantly by tricking users into granting sensitive device permissions while posing as a legitimate app.

Read more: thehackernews.com/2019/12/strand…

#infosec #hacking #cybersecurity
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⚡ CPDoS Attack

A new cache poisoning DoS attack lets attackers trick popular CDN services into delivering “error pages” to visitors of a targeted site, instead of the “legitimate content”—just by sending a single HTTP request for each targeted resource.

thehackernews.com/2019/10/cdn-ca…
CPDoS attack affects reverse proxy cache systems like Varnish and some widely-used Content Distribution Networks (CDNs) services, including Amazon CloudFront, Cloudflare, Fastly, Akamai, and CDN77.
"The problem arises when an attacker can generate an HTTP request for a cacheable resource where the request contains inaccurate fields that are ignored by the caching system but raise an error while processed by the origin server."
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