> I asked ChatGPT to write an angry tweet thread blasting journalists for not contacting us, and pinned this to the top of the profile. Then, I set about gathering all the existing coverage about TVS, and finding the articles’ authors on Twitter to the best of my ability, and then individually tagging them to blast them for not contacting us. This is an example of social engineering, and something I’ve seen from other red teaming efforts and my own projects, that humans are usually the weakest link in any technological system, and often quite easily fooled.
Wild that it's possible to take over an internet identity at the start of their notoriety.
This is an insane story and extra interesting that the black/white hat hacker is exposing everything they did.
Other references: https://www.timesnownews.com/world/us/us-buzz/is-the-velvet-...
Fake account that fooled journalists: https://x.com/Velvet_Sundown
Real account: https://x.com/tvs_music
> I asked ChatGPT to write an angry tweet thread blasting journalists for not contacting us, and pinned this to the top of the profile. Then, I set about gathering all the existing coverage about TVS, and finding the articles’ authors on Twitter to the best of my ability, and then individually tagging them to blast them for not contacting us. This is an example of social engineering, and something I’ve seen from other red teaming efforts and my own projects, that humans are usually the weakest link in any technological system, and often quite easily fooled.
Wild that it's possible to take over an internet identity at the start of their notoriety.