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Education. Gaither High School. Known for. 2020 Twitter bitcoin scam. Criminal status. Released. Mother. Emilya Clark. Graham Ivan Clark (born January 9, 2003) is an American computer hacker, cybercriminal and a convicted felon regarded as the mastermind behind the 2020 Twitter account hijacking.
Zoombombing or Zoom raiding [1] is the unwanted, disruptive intrusion, generally by Internet trolls, into a video-conference call. In a typical Zoombombing incident, a teleconferencing session is hijacked by the insertion of material that is lewd , obscene , or offensive in nature, typically resulting in the shutdown of the session or the ...
2020 Twitter account hijacking. At least 130 accounts affected. The bitcoin addresses involved received about US$ 110,000 in bitcoin transactions. On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were reportedly compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. [1][2] Twitter and other media sources ...
Four years later, a federal grand jury in Fresno has issued an indictment against the purported ringleader of the “Zoom bomb” group, Mohammad Amr Alhashemi. He is charged with six separate ...
AOHell was the first of what would become thousands of programs designed for hackers created for use with AOL. In 1994, seventeen year old hacker Koceilah Rekouche, from Pittsburgh, PA, known online as "Da Chronic", [1] [2] used Visual Basic to create a toolkit that provided: a new DLL for the AOL client, a credit card number generator, email bomber, IM bomber, Punter, and a basic set of ...
The SIM swapping community entered the spotlight after helping the Twitter hacker breach the social media platform, but these threat actors have been going after the crypto community for years.
Hacktivism. Internet activism, hacktivism, or hactivism (a portmanteau of hack and activism), is the use of computer-based techniques such as hacking as a form of civil disobedience to promote a political agenda or social change. [1] With roots in hacker culture and hacker ethics, its ends are often related to free speech, human rights, or ...
The Morris worm or Internet worm of November 2, 1988, is one of the oldest computer worms distributed via the Internet, and the first to gain significant mainstream media attention. It resulted in the first felony conviction in the US under the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. [1] It was written by a graduate student at Cornell University ...