Paradigm researcher Samczsun posted on social media that the security vulnerability reported by Twitter this morning has been fixed. The technical summary is as follows:

Paradigm researcher samczsun wrote that the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter) had a critical vulnerability. This vulnerability allows hackers to gain complete access to user accounts by simply clicking on a link. This means that hackers can tweet, retweet, like, block, and perform other actions, but cannot change the user's password. Until this issue is resolved, users are advised to install the ad blocker uBlock Origin to reduce the risk of such attacks. uBlock Origin is an effective browser extension that can block malicious links and ads, thereby improving user network security when using social platforms such as X.

Elon Musk's company, formerly known as Twitter and now called X, has been granted three additional money transmitter licenses in South Dakota, Kansas, and Wyoming, bringing the total number of states where the company is allowed to engage in money transfers to twelve. The company plans to turn X into an "everything app" that includes its own payments system, putting it in competition with PayPal. Musk has previously spoken about his plans to morph X into a payments platform, where users can send money to others on the platform, extract their funds to authenticated bank accounts, and perhaps later, a high-yield money market account. However, X's ability to monetize via ads has taken a downturn in recent days due to an advertiser exodus prompted by Musk's endorsement of an antisemitic post on the platform.