CryptoForHealth: A Large Scale Attack on Twitter

How to scam for $118K

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I have a domain name called Cloud4Health.com, and it was initially associated with our second spin-out (Symphonic). But, today it was CryptoForHeath.com that was in the news, and part of a major Twitter account compromise.

It is strange when you watch an online crime being re-acting in real-time. And tonight as I watched my twitter feed I saw some strange events:

And so there was a targetted hack on the Twitter accounts of many high profile people such as Barach Obama, Joe Biden, Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Kanye West, Apple, Uber, and Bitcoin.org. The associated scamming Website pointed users to…

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Prof Bill Buchanan OBE FRSE
ASecuritySite: When Bob Met Alice

Professor of Cryptography. Serial innovator. Believer in fairness, justice & freedom. Based in Edinburgh. Old World Breaker. New World Creator. Building trust.