Phone spear phishing allowed hackers to gain Twitter employee credentials

August 3, 2020

Twitter has released additional information on their investigation into the compromise that occurred on July 15, 2020. The attack, says the company, started with a spear phishing attack on a select group of employees that "relied on a significant and concerted attempt to mislead certain employees and exploit human vulnerabilities to gain access to [Twitter's] internal systems."

For Email Safety, Complement Training with Authentication

Alexander Garcia-Tobar

February 2, 2017

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According to the SANS Institute, 95 percent of all attacks on enterprise networks start with a successful spear phishing attack.

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