Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Apple's Twitter Accounts Hacked in Massive Bitcoin Scam
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Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Apple's Twitter Accounts Hacked in Massive Bitcoin Scam

THELOGICALINDIAN - In a crazy about-face of contest official Twitter accounts for Binance and its architect CZ Trons Justin Sun and added accounts accept been hacked

Official Twitter accounts beyond the cryptocurrency amplitude accept been compromised. Accounts for Binance, Justin Sun, Changpeng Zhao, Gemini, and KuCoin all arise to accept been hacked. Even Elon Musk’s annual was compromised.

All four of the compromised accounts accept affianced a agnate cheep at the aforementioned time on their profile, which says, “We accept partnered with CryptoForHealth and are giving aback 5000 BTC to the community.” The cheep again directs users to a apprehensive link.

https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1283495825998520320

A quick attending at the CryptoForHealth website absolutely confirms it’s a website accompanying to an airdrop scam. An airdrop betray entices users into sending some crypto, mainly Bitcoin and Ethereum, to a accurate wallet abode and again promises to accord aback bifold the amount. The bluff again disappears with the calm cryptocurrency. 

Crypto Twitter was quick to point out article ambiguous apropos the tweets and warned the users about a accessible accommodation of the Twitter accounts. 

How Did the Hack Happen?

So far, there is no official account by the parties complex apropos the incident. One account accustomed by the columnist of Mastering Bitcoin, Andreas Antonopoulos, suggests that maybe a accepted third-party announcement account that uses Twitter API ability accept been compromised.

At the time of the writing, the betray abode has accumulated over 0.65 BTC and continues to grow. This adventure is still developing.

[Update]:

The website CryptoForHealth has been apparent as a doubtable phishing website by Cloudflare and is not accessible.

The latest Twitter annual to be compromised is of Bill Gates, currently the world’s second-richest person. The attackers assume to accept confused their tactics. Instead of allurement bodies to alter to a altered website, the attackers are tweeting a betray abode through the official accounts. So far, over 10 bitcoins accept been calm in total, with over 5 Bitcoin aloof from the address aggregate through Bill Gate’s official Twitter account.

The accounts of Apple, Uber, and above Presidential applicant Mike Bloomberg accept all been compromised.

Two arresting crypto funds accept fabricated a above advance in DeFi money bazaar Aave.

One of DeFi’s fastest-growing protocols, Aave, has aloft $3 actor in basic from notable crypto funds Framework Ventures and Three Arrows Capital. The two will amalgamate armament with allowance Aave allure added clamminess and users.

Aave Continues to Grow

DeFi money bazaar Aave awash $3 actor of their built-in tokens, LEND, from the protocol’s treasury to adventure basic armamentarium Framework Ventures and crypto barrier armamentarium Three Arrows Capital, according to a columnist release.

Aave is a aerial advance agreement that has apparent blitzing growth in 2020, activity from beneath than a actor of bound clamminess in January 2020 to $220 actor today.

Since Black Thursday, Aave has acquired cogent absorption as a adversary to both Compound and MakerDAO.

Framework Ventures is a well-known name in the DeFi ecosystem, with notable investments in Synthetix, ChainLink, and Kava. The armamentarium has developed a acceptability as one of DeFi’s foremost investors, allowance beginning projects abound by actively accidental to the ecosystem.

Michael Anderson, a co-founder and accepted accomplice at Framework Ventures, said:

“We accept there will be a cogent bazaar about-face of clandestine borrow/lend action affective to decentralized money bazaar protocols. Aave stands to decidedly account from this basal about-face by enabling added assets as collateral, continuing to innovate with new lending appearance such as acclaim delegation, and partnering with added DeFi protocols, ultimately adopting a community-first approach.”

Three Arrows will accompany Framework in their alive association approach, allowance Aave clarify the use case for its built-in badge with revamped badge economics that focuses on staking and acceptable liquidity.