Twitter needs to do something about Elon Musk Twitter spam

4 points by hamiltonians ↗ HN
It's out of control.

https://i.postimg.cc/bYBR7B5M/Screenshot-from-2021-11-09-19-41-12.png

This is just a tiny fraction of how widespread the problem is. Thousands of twitter accounts being hacked daily and being changed to Elon Musk's likeness to scam people. I wonder how they are getting all these accounts..this is thousands of accounts per day, day after day, forever. Brute forcing? Obviously there is some weakness that is allowing this to happen, which twitter is unable or refusing to fix. I am not even sure they are aware of this.

Could be something like:

1. scape millions of twitter accounts daily

2. run a list of the the 100 most common passwords on them, via cloud clusters , so one IP per x login attempts.

Landing page:

BCRYP. NET

one of the addresses

https://www.blockchain.com/btc/address/1MuskihuVqz86PGj5ypjeMJhWFDxmtLwbe

there are many of these addresses, rotated hourly. the scammer(s) probably earns more in a week than a google engineer or quant makes in a year. 0.11 btc=$7k in just hours. Probably only Forbes 100 execs and top entertainers earn more. But no media coverage about this huge widespread fraud on twitter and how thousands of twitter accounts are being hacked daily. Email scammers make less money yet ISPs cracked down, so why can't twitter stop this? We're talking millions stolen in stealth mode. Even ransomware gang Revil does not make this much and they take much more risk in terms of feds.

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