In mid-July, Twitter revealed that hackers had used a technique against it called "phone spear phishing," allowing the attackers to target the accounts of 130 people including CEOs, celebrities ...

The social media company revealed a few more details late Thursday about the hack earlier this month, which it said targeted "a small number of employees through a phone spear-phishing attack." ...

According to the company, a small number of employees were targeted in a "phone spear phishing attack," suggesting that hackers called some of its staff and duped them into thinking they were ...

So, the obvious question is – what’s a “phone spear phishing attack”? Twitter unfortunately has been frustratingly opaque as to precisely what it means by the term, but here’s my best guess at what ...

The hackers behind this month’s epic Twitter breach targeted a small number of employees through a “phone spear phishing attack,” the social media site said on Thursday night. When the ...

Twitter revealed that a number of employees fell victim to a “phone spear-phishing attack” in a new update on how its systems were compromised in the social media giant’s largest hack to ...

Twitter now says that a few employees were targeted in a phone spear phishing attack. While Twitter doesn’t quite say, that presumably means hackers called up Twitter employees while posing as ...

Andy Greenberg at Wired has published an interesting article, describing how there have been a spate of “phone spear phishing” attacks since celebrity accounts on Twitters were very publicly ...

Spear phishing can be dangerous for consumers ... How do you determine if the phone call is legitimate? Groene recommended doing your own research. For Deel, she called the jury clerk and ...

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Twitter revealed that a number of employees fell victim to a "phone spear-phishing attack" in a new update on how its systems were compromised in the social media giant's largest hack to date on ...