Haseeb Awan, CEO of Efani, a safe and personal cellular phone service, talks about how he turned acquainted with hackers who took over outstanding accounts on Twitter final week. He describes:
the underground trade that steals cellular phone numbers and why
who the principle gamers, Kirk, lol and “ever so anxious” are
what the hackers did once they took maintain of outstanding accounts, similar to these of Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Elon Musk, Invoice Gates, and people of crypto corporations similar to Binance and Coinbase
what the hackers might do with the knowledge that they obtained with the accounts they took over
why this was possible not a pre-planned assault
what occurred to the safety of the Twitter accounts, and why their second-factor authentication protections didn’t maintain their accounts from being hacked
what classes crypto folks can take away from the Twitter hack and the way they’ll shield themselves
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Episode hyperlinks:
Haseeb Awan: https://twitter.com/haseeb
Efani: https://www.efani.com
The New York Occasions story detailing the hack: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/know-how/twitter-hackers-interview.html?searchResultPosition=3
Chainalysis evaluation of the Bitcoin obtained within the hack: https://weblog.chainalysis.com/stories/twitter-hack-july-2020-update
Twitter’s account of the hack: https://weblog.twitter.com/en_us/subjects/firm/2020/an-update-on-our-security-incident.html
Evaluation by Krebs on Safety: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2020/07/whos-behind-wednesdays-epic-twitter-hack/
The recounting by the holder of the @6 account: https://medium.com/@lucky225/the-twitter-hack-what-exactly-happened-d8740d33c1c
Coinbase stopping clients from sending cash to the hackers: https://www.theblockcrypto.com/submit/72200/coinbase-says-it-prevented-over-1000-customers-from-sending-280000-worth-of-bitcoin-to-twitter-hackers
Fortune on why the attackers may have a tough time cashing out: http://hyperlinks.information.fortune.com/e/evib?_t=5c2d888702774d17aa3d0350287b6d73&_m=4ecf0f55469542a782a36f0ec9d8df09&_e=EaRX5Sk3zpaQLYk6z4FZ9OwiLdl6CTboSs0AyX9UekCl-VWvzN8z8oZ2pelKQ5oGqAiv5DUuK6FhjOY1tputGIU-mTcXNHxotHGTm1cA2_L6YhT_jsJ_DRRCpdFSGEbh
Convo between two of the hackers: https://i.imgur.com/aJUDLrI.png
Hyperlinks from information recap:
https://unchainedpodcast.com/dear-bank-hodl-my-crypto/
