Twitter attack highlights need to better protect admin accounts, experts say

By Howard Solomon for IT World Canada
Friday, July 17, 2020

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The attack puts in question Twitter’s entire internal security system, said Ilia Kolochenko, CEO of ImmuniWeb.”If the attackers got access and managed to steal Twitter’s databases, and are not just opportunistically exploiting an unknown authentication bypass flaw in one of its systems, millions of users and enterprises are at critical risk of highly sophisticated phishing, ransomware, identity theft and many other attacks for the next few years.”

Experts also say the damage from the attack could have been worse: With access to Twitter accounts of Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Uber, Apple, Barak Obama, Kayne West and more the attackers were relatively modest in merely spreading claims that people could double their money by sending bitcoin to a certain address. Read Full Article