New Delhi, Sep 12 : Elon Musk on Monday was contacted by hackers on verified accounts, along with accounts that were not verified, sharing hyperlinks to crypto scams as he posted an update on Tesla’s most recent version of full self-driving (FSD) Beta.Many of these accounts were fake accounts, however they were also hacked verified Twitter accounts.
A Twitter user posted screenshots of Musk receiving a flurry of messages with fake accounts in his most recent tweet.
“FSD Beta 10.69.2 is out.The most important is safety.Therefore, you should expect to be extremely cautious especially in pedestrian areas,” Musk posted.
Within a short time, crypto accounts that were spammed were able to reach Musk and he posted on Twitter “Sigh”.
Musk recently took on the Parag Agrawal-led website after a top cybersecurity expert said that as many as 8 in 10 Twitter accounts have fake.
Dan Woods, Global Head of Intelligence at cybersecurity firm F5 Dan Woods, Global Head of Intelligence at cybersecurity firm F5 The Australian that more than 80 percent of Twitter accounts are most likely bots.This is an enormous claim considering that Twitter claims that only 5 percent of its users are spammers/bots.
Musk has claimed that last week that 90 percent of the messages he tweets contain bots or spam responses.
The Tesla and SpaceX CEOAhas been able to end the $44 billion Twitter deal to buy SpaceX and the matter is currently in the hands of a US court, involving the existence of bots operating on the platform.
The court wants answers from Agrawal through an open discussion.
The trial for Musk-Twitter is set to begin on October 17.
According to Woods who was who was a former CIA and FBI cybersecurity specialist Both Musk as well as Twitter have under-estimated the bot issue on the micro-blogging site.
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