⁍ The FBI is leading an inquiry into the colossal Twitter hack that impacted high-profile accounts on Wednesday.
⁍ The hacker is known as PlugWalkJoe, and a mobile industry security source told Krebs his real name is Joseph James Connor.
⁍ Facebook is adding an information label to all posts about voting from federal officials and political candidates, including the president.
⁍ Microsoft quietly cut under 1,000 jobs across its business this week, as it enters its new fiscal year.

– Twitter says it’s working with the FBI to figure out who hacked dozens of its users this week, hijacking some of them for ransom and sending them tweets asking for money to buy cryptocurrency. The company says it’s investigating the hack, which affected at least some of the more than 200 million Twitter users who signed up for the service, the AP reports. It’s not clear who the hackers are, but cybersecurity blogger Brian Krebs thinks he has a suspect: a 21-year-old hacker with links to a hacking group that got into Jack Dorsey’s account last year. The hacker is known as PlugWalkJoe, and his real name is Joseph James Connor, a mobile industry security source tells Krebs his real name is Joseph James Connor. Russian hackers linked to the Kremlin targeted vaccine research facilities in the US, the UK, and Canada, UK security officials announced on Thursday. The hacking group—known as APT29, Cozy Bear, or the Dukes—has previously been linked to various cyberattacks, including the hacking of the Democratic National Committee before the 2016 US presidential election. Mark Zuckerberg called the Trump administration’s response to COVID-19 “really disappointing” in a Facebook interview with Anthony Fauci.

Source: https://www.businessinsider.com/10-things-in-tech-you-need-to-know-today-july-17-2020-7