Google Falls Casualty to Fresh Wave of Twitter Scams
Posted: Tue Nov 13, 2018 12:43 pm
A Twitter account belonging to internet monolith Google has been hacked by cryptocurrency scammers, according to The Next Web. Specifically, it was the account of G Suite, a Google brand of products which include Gmail, Google+, and Google Drive.
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The post, which was reportedly up for around thirteen minutes, was the traditional crypto-giveaway:
[url=https://events.financemagnates.com/londonsummit/?utm_source=FM&utm_medium=AUTOLINK&utm_campaign=Article&utm_content=fmls18]Join the Leading Industry Event![/url]
As you can see, it asks for people to send money, in return for more back.
Responding to media requests for a statement, a Google spokesperson told Business Insider: “This morning an unauthorized promoted tweet was shared from the G Suite account. ... (read more)