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HACKERS POSE AS TWITTER EMPLOYEES, JOURNALISTS IN NEW BREACH TACTICS

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July 18, 2022 10:14am
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Hackers are impersonating Twitter employees and journalists. Getty Images


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Hackers from China, Iran and Turkey are using new tactics including posing as
Twitter employees and journalists in their latest attempts to breach victims’
devices, according to a new cybersecurity study. 

The report shows how governments around the world are responding to increased
political tension by ramping up unconventional hacking campaigns.

In one example, hackers from Turkey created fake messages from Twitter in an
effort to hijack users’ accounts, according to the study from security software
company Proofpoint. 

The messages notified victims that their accounts had seen a “New Login” in
Moscow, Russia and urged them to click a link to change their passwords. Users
who clicked the link and entered their account information would then have their
accounts taken over by the hackers. 

The Turkish hackers have primarily targeted journalists with this technique in
an effort to steal their social media accounts, according to the study. 

An example of a fake Twitter email that Proofpoint says was sent out by Turkish
hackers.

In another tactic, Iranian hackers are creating “reporter personas” in efforts
to breach the email accounts of academics and Middle East policy experts. 

“My name is Amy Duncan and I’m a senior reporter with Metro newspaper,” reads
one such email that was sent to an academic who specializes in Iran. “I would be
most grateful if I could have an interview with you.” 

The fake reporter then sent multiple follow-up emails, including a video call
invitation with a link that redirects to a password-harvesting website. 

Iranian hackers are impersonating journalists, according to Proofpoint.

Iranian hackers have also posted as journalists from Fox News, The Guardian and
UK news site iNews, according to Proofpoint. 

Other recent hacking campaigns have focused on breaching the accounts of
journalists themselves. 


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After the Capitol riots in January 2021, Chinese hackers blanketed White House
correspondents and other US politics reporters with phishing emails in attempts
to breach their accounts. Later that year, they shifted their focus to reporters
covering cybersecurity, surveillance and privacy issues — especially those who
write about China, according to Proofpoint. 

Ahead of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, the Chinese hackers shifted their focus
to journalists covering US and European national security, according to the
report. 

Employees of the New York Post and Wall Street Journal were targeted in an
apparent Chinese intelligence-gathering operation, parent company News Corp said
in February.

North Korean hackers have likewise targeted US journalists using fake job
listings, the report says. 

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“From intentions to gather sensitive information to attempts to manipulate
public perceptions, the knowledge and access that a journalist or news outlet
can provide is unique in the public space,” Proofpoint’s researchers wrote.
“Targeting the media sector also lowers the risk of failure or discovery to a
[hacker] than going after other, more hardened targets of interest, such as
government entities.”


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