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Twitter bug may have been exploited by state-sponsored hackers

Twitter admitted to a bug in one of its support forum APIs that allowed cyber thugs to discover a Twitter users account phone number country code and if the account had been locked. Twitter said it’s possible that this might be tied to state-sponsored attacks. Trend Micro researchers discovered that cyber thugs hid code in memes posted to Twitter to communicate with malware. The malware had support for retrieving a list of running processes, capturing clipboard content, and retrieving usernames from infected machines. The latest printer hack message has been printed on more than 100,000 printers.”]

Source: https://www.csoonline.com/article/3329296/twitter-bug-may-have-been-exploited-by-state-sponsored-hackers.html

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