{"id":3525,"date":"2018-11-17T07:16:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-17T07:16:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/?p=3525"},"modified":"2018-11-17T15:59:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-17T15:59:47","slug":"official-google-twitter-account-hacked-in-bitcoin-scam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2018\/11\/17\/official-google-twitter-account-hacked-in-bitcoin-scam\/","title":{"rendered":"Official Google Twitter account hacked in Bitcoin scam"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b> Source:<\/b> Naked Security\/Sophos<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/content\/blogcategory\/83\/96\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.linuxsecurity.com\/images\/stories\/icons\/hackscracks-icon.gif\" alt=\"Hacks\/Cracks\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nThe epidemic of Twitter-based Bitcoin scams took another twist this week as attackers tweeted scams directly from two verified high-profile accounts. Criminals sent posts from both Google\u0092s G Suite account and Target\u0092s official Twitter account. Cryptocurrency giveaway scams work by offering money to victims. There\u0092s a catch, of course: They must first send a small amount of money to \u0091verify their address\u0092. The money in return never shows up and the attackers cash out.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.linuxsecurity.com\/content\/view\/214882?rdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Naked Security\/Sophos The epidemic of Twitter-based Bitcoin scams took another twist this week as attackers tweeted scams directly from two verified high-profile accounts. Criminals sent posts from both Google\u0092s G Suite account and Target\u0092s official Twitter account. Cryptocurrency giveaway scams work by offering money to victims. There\u0092s a catch, of course: They must first &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/2018\/11\/17\/official-google-twitter-account-hacked-in-bitcoin-scam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Official Google Twitter account hacked in Bitcoin scam&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-linux"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3525"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3809,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3525\/revisions\/3809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.appservgrid.com\/paw92\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}