Twitter risks other attacks on profiles (and how it can prevent them)

According to Axios experts, the social network has vulnerabilities that expose it to intrusions such as the one that hit Obama and Musk profiles. A lesson comes from Trump's profile

(Photo: Omar Marques / Sopa Images / LightRocket / Getty Images) In the last few hours, Twitter investigations have also joined those of the FBI to identify the people involved in the attack July 15 hacker targeting some of the world's top public figures, such as US presidential candidate Joe Biden or Microsoft founder Bill Gates.

No perpetrators identified yet. , but the first checks revealed that the hackers had already identified 130 other certified profiles (the ones with the blue tick) as recipients of an upcoming attack. A circumstance that suggests that such episodes could also occur in the future. According to Axios, Twitter has already alerted politicians, entrepreneurs, public officials and electoral committees. Repeated hacker attacks represent a danger especially in view of the upcoming American elections and show how vulnerable social networks are.

What will happen?

The current senator from Connecticut and former minister of justice, Richard Blumenthal, has explained that “by the time Twitter had been taken over by the Federal trade commission (Ftc) for a safety system gaps in the management of its users. Certainly could have been much worse, but with the elections to the doors, the risks are much more concrete” . Of the same opinion, senator Mark Warner, vice-chairman of the committee on intelligence of the Senate, stressed that “now the flaw has been exploited for a scam, but could also create the event and panic from the point of view of the political and social” . It is the opinion of many observers that, instead of a request of the bitcoin, the tweet could contain information capable of modifying the balance of the market , triggering the international crisis, or thinking about the presidential election, to falsify information on the vote.

You're just the disaster, but could not go so the next time. The solution is not so simple but, as always remember Axios , the case of Donald Trump could do school. In 2017, the account of the president had been disabled by mistake for 11 minutes, and from then have been strengthened and the security levels of the profile (and would be one of the reasons why it has not undergone the hacker attack). A hypothesis, then, is to apply these rules also to other profiles , even if is definitely not enough. Investigations by the Federal trade commission, on earlier occasions, have shown that the security system of Twitter has many flaws, easily exploited. Then, for Twitter to come to the head of the issue may be very complicated.