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If somebody had that kind of an exploit of Twitter, is it really plausible they'd use it for such an inconsequential tweet and on your account? Seems like there
by jsnell 5y ago
If somebody had that kind of an exploit of Twitter, is it really plausible they'd use it for such an inconsequential tweet and on your account? Seems like there would be far juicier targets.
- jacquesm 5y agoThat I agree with. Still, no indication at all that anything besides Twitter has been abused and believe me there are far juicier targets on this machine as well. So why just Twitter if someone has compromised my main work machine? That would really make no sense.
- ziddoap 5y agoIt is not unheard of as a distraction technique. Similar to flooding an inbox with spam mail so the "changed password" email gets missed in the flurry. You could be spending all of your time trying to solve your Twitter issue while time is being taken to delicately extract some of those "far juicier" targets. Not saying this is for sure, but just one reason why a malicious actor might act in this way. If you haven't done a full forensics on your main machine, you should be doing that before jumping to the conclusion that your machine is completely clean.
- jacquesm 5y agoGood one, never thought of that. One more reason to want to get to the bottom of how this was done.
- im3w1l 5y agoThe simplest scenario I can think of that fits is that a really immature person had physical access to your device with an active twitter session.
- jacquesm 5y agoI was at this computer for many hours in a row today, nobody but me had access to this box from well before the Tweet was made right up to now.