Cyber Humanity

14: Hack My Tweets Up


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Imagine our surprise when we were casually browsing Twitter one evening and then got offered $2,000 for every $1,000 we sent to Jeff Bezos. Now that's a good deal... Naturally our curiosity was piqued and in today's episode we take a deeper look at this high profile hack.

Apparently you can now hack chargers to destroy devices. What a world we live in!

And Charming Kitten – the cyberwarfare group also known as APT35 – has hit headlines this week as IBM X-Force discovered videos of the group's hackers teaching others to efficiently take control of social media accounts, email accounts etc. It's basically cybersecurity training for state-sponsored hackers... Colour us intrigued.

Twitter hack:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-53425822

BadPower

https://gizmodo.com/new-hack-can-trick-power-bricks-into-starting-fires-1844441247

Charming Kitten videos

https://www.zdnet.com/article/iranian-cyberspies-leave-training-videos-exposed-online/

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