A Brazen Online Attach Targets V.I.P Twitter Users in a Bitcoin Scam
一场明目张胆的网络攻击：针对推特大V的比特币骗局
It was about 4 in the afternoon on Wednesday when chaos struck online. Dozens of the biggest names in America-including Barak Obama, Kanye West, Bill Gates and Elon Musk-posted similar messages on Twitter: Send Bitcoin and the famous people would send back double your money.
大约上周三下午4点，网络陷入混乱。包括巴拉克·奥巴马、坎耶·韦斯特比尔·盖茨和伊隆·马斯克在内的众多在美国家喻户晓的人物都在推特上发布了相似的消息：只要你给他们发送比特币，这些大咖们就会双倍返还。
It was all a scam, of course, the result of one of the most brazen online attacks in memory.
当然了，这是一场骗局，它也成了印象中最明目张胆的网络攻击之一。
Twitter quickly removed many of the messages, but in some cases similar tweets were sent again from the same accounts, suggesting that Twitter was powerless to regain control.
推特快速移除了其中的很多消息，但其中一些账号又再次发出了类似的推文，这意味着当时推特无计可施，难以夺回控制权。
The hackers did not use their access to take aim at any important institutions or infrastructure-instead just asking for Bitcoin. But the attack was concerning to security experts because it suggested that the hackers could have easily caused much more havoc.
黑客们只是索要了比特币，并没有利用他们的访问权限来针对任何重要机构或基础设施。但这次攻击令安全家非常担心，因为这间接说明了黑客们本可以轻易地造成更大的破坏。
One American official called that a 'scary possibility' in a world where national leaders, sometimes imitating Mr.Trump's techniques, have adopted Twitter as a primary source of unfiltered communications.
一位美国官员称“其可能性令人后怕”。因为在当今世界，国家领导人有时会模仿特朗普的操作，把推特作为一种不经审核的主要信息传播源。
'It could have been much worse. We got lucky that this is what they decided to do with their power,', said Alex Stamos, director of the Stanford Internet Observatory.
斯坦福互联网观察站负责人阿列克斯·斯塔莫斯表示：“局面本可能会更遭。他们有这么大能耐，却只决定做了这件事，我们已经很走运了。”
英文外刊抄写-2020-07-21
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