back to article X-ploited: Mandiant restores hijacked Twitter account after attempted crypto heist

Miscreants took over security giant Mandiant's Twitter account for several hours on Wednesday in an attempt to steal cryptocurrency, then trolled the Google-owned security shop, telling its admins to change the password. "We are aware of the incident that impacted the Mandiant X account and are conducting a thorough …

  1. Doctor Syntax Silver badge

    Of course Xcretions are an ultra-reliabe source of investments tips for cryptocurrencies or anything else. Why would anyone look elsewhere?

    1. Jan 0 Silver badge

      It seems that sarcasm is effectively dead in 2024!

    2. Michael Wojcik Silver badge

      To be fair, they're about as reliable as any other source of cryptocurrency investment tips. Other than the tip "don't".

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    Mandiant Twitter account compromised

    .. it's not a good look for what is arguably the leading threat intelligence and incident response firm ..

    Sep 2017: FireEye pulls Equifax boasts as it tries to handle hack fallout

    Is there a bug in the Twitter login component or did Mandiant use an easy to guess password or did the miscreants perform a SIM swap?

    It does, however, seem very on-brand for the beleaguered microblogging platform that has been in a chaotic spiral, losing credibility and bleeding cash since Musk took over in April 2022.

    And you were doing so well :(

  3. Big_C

    Assuming that the X account is managed by the marketing department /contractor security is maybe not as complex as with other parts of the company.

    Which is not real excuse, of course.

    What does X offer as account security? Only 2FA? Or can companies/government user get better options?

    Special client apps that include workflows for tweet management and offer better crypto secured access to send them out?

  4. tmTM

    "It's unclear if anyone lost any coins via the attempted theft"

    Would anyone put their hands up and admit it if they did lose coins?

    1. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Re: "It's unclear if anyone lost any coins via the attempted theft"

      Cryptobrothers are like vegans, they can't stop telling you what are they doing.

  5. Strahd Ivarius Silver badge
    Coat

    EM & Bitcoin scam

    The assertion that EM's account had been hacked to promote a Bitcoin scam has been widely debunked following EM promoting cryptocurrencies, that is scams.

    He bought Twitter only to bury any internal inquiry about that alleged hack.

  6. ldo

    “XFormerlyKnownAsTwitter” Is Getting Old

    I see this mouthful of a phrase commonly on TV news items as well.

    What’s the bet Musk gives up on the rebranding and goes back to calling it “Twitter” again?

    “TwitterFormerlyKnownAsXFormerlyFormerlyKnownAsTwitter”

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