Welcome to the Tech Meme Ride Home for Friday, July 17th, 2020. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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So what do we know about the big Twitter attack at this point? Well as you'd expect Brian Krebs is on the case and he's suggesting or alleging that the attack may have been perpetrated by a Joseph

James Connor, a 21-year-old English Sim Swapper who goes by the handle Plug Walk Joe, and who has links to a group that hijacked

Jack Dorsey's personal Twitter account last year, quoting Krebs.

There are strong indications that this attack was perpetrated by individuals who've

traditionally specialized in hijacking social media accounts via Sim swapping, an increasingly

rampant form of crime that involves bribing, hacking or coercing employees at

mobile phone and social media companies into providing access to a

targets account. People within the Sim Swapping community are obsessed with

hijacking so-called

O-G social media accounts, short for original gangster.

O-G accounts typically are those with short profile names

such as at the letter B or say at Joe. Possession of these O.G. accounts confers a measure of

status and perceived influence and wealth in swim swapping circles as such accounts

can often fetch thousands of dollars when resold in the

underground.

In the days leading up to Wednesday's attack on Twitter, there were signs that some actors

in the Sim swapping community were selling the ability to change an email address tied to any

Twitter account. In a post on OG users, a forum dedicated to account hijacking, a user

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