Yesterday, several high-profile Twitter accounts were accessed by hackers and used as part of a bitcoin scam. Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Uber and Apple were amongst those targeted by the attackers, who posted scam links promising that donations made to a bitcoin wallet would be doubled by the account holder. The link however, lead to the hacker’s accounts. A coordinated social engineering attack Twitter has revealed this morning that it believes the source of the scam to be a social engineering attack, which targeted specific employees at the company with certain access permissions. Although further information about the nature of the attack is unknown at present, it highlights one of the most important security considerations for any organisation. Social engineering plays a key part in the cyber-threat landscape,…
