"Hackers Are Taking Over Twitter Accounts to Advertise Face Masks"

Many Twitter accounts were recently hacked to advertise a website, called "Masks 2 U", claiming to sell face masks, toilet paper, respirators, and thermometers, further highlighting the different ways in which hackers and scammers are leveraging the COVID-19 crisis. In addition to posting tweets advertising the sketchy website through the compromised accounts, direct messages containing a link to the site were sent to victims' followers. Further investigation revealed similar sites hosted on the same IP address as the Masks 2 U website, some of which were created a few days earlier. This article continues to discuss the compromise of Twitter accounts by hackers to advertise a suspicious website, findings surrounding the creation of the site, and Twitter's response to this incident. 

Motherboard reports "Hackers Are Taking Over Twitter Accounts to Advertise Face Masks"