Credential theft β›“ Supply Chain

TechCrunch / The Register / Group-IB (0ktapus research)

πŸ“… 2022-06-01 🏒 Twilio Communications Platform
Primary Source β†—

Incident Details

Twilio employees received smishing SMS impersonating IT dept claiming password expiry. Employees entered credentials on fake Twilio login page with real-time MFA relay bypassing TOTP. 209 Twilio customers and 93 Authy users affected. Part of larger ‘0ktapus’ campaign hitting 130+ organizations including Cloudflare, DoorDash, Signal (via Twilio). Attackers had sophisticated employee phone-to-name matching. Also revealed Twilio was breached earlier in June 2022 via same method.

Technical Details

Initial Attack Vector
CWE-1021: Improper Restriction of Rendered UI Layers (SMS phishing / smishing with real-time OTP relay to fake login page)
Vendor / Product
Twilio Communications Platform
Supply Chain Attack
βœ… Confirmed third-party / vendor compromise

Timeline

  1. 2022-06-01 Breach occurred
  2. 2022-08-07 Publicly disclosed
  3. 2022-08-11 Customers notified