Collaborate Disseminate
Hackers are taking over high-profile Instagram users’ accounts and holding them to ransom, revealed reports this week. Continue reading Hackers demand ransom from hijacked Instagram influencers
If at all possible, organizations like to keep details of the breaches they suffered under wraps, mostly to safeguard their reputation and to minimize legal trouble. As Verizon Enterprise Solutions’ Clare Ward recently noted, this plays to the ad… Continue reading Verizon details breaches they were called in to investigate
Users will soon be able to use authenticator apps for 2FA codes, request blue verified badges, and get more context about big accounts. Continue reading Instagram fights misinformation and account hijackings with new tools
Single sign-on (SSO) lets users avoid creating and managing accounts across different services, but what happens when that main, identity-providing account gets compromised? Can users remediate a takeover of that account and other accounts tied to it? … Continue reading The single sign-on account hijacking threat and what can we do about it?
A cryptocurrency investor is suing AT&T because criminals were able to empty his accounts through SIM swap fraud (aka account port out fraud), even though he had already asked for additional protections to be set up on his AT&T account. He is… Continue reading AT&T sued for enabling SIM swap fraud
In a probable quest to build a botnet, someone is hacking Instagram accounts, deleting handles, avatars and personal details, and linking them to a new email address. Continue reading Victims Lose Access to Thousands of Photos as Instagram Hack Spreads
Within a year, the number of data leaks from cryptocurrency exchanges soared by 369%, Group-IB researchers have found, and the US, Russia and China are the countries where users are targeted most often. In fact, every third victim of the attack is loca… Continue reading Theft of user accounts on cryptocurrency exchanges is soaring
Researchers have discovered and analyzed an unusual piece of malware that, among other things, seeks to collect cache and key files from end-to-end encrypted instant messaging service Telegram. The malware’s capabilities Cisco Talos researchers V… Continue reading Telegrab: Russian malware hijacks Telegram sessions
In less than an hour after he tweeted from a barricaded room, Vadim Lavrusik’s account was hijacked. Continue reading YouTube employee’s Twitter account hijacked during shooting
Criminals trying to get their hands on victims’ cryptocurrency stashes are trying out various approaches. The latest one includes equipping malware with Man-in-the-Browser capabilities so they can hijack online accounts and perform fraudulent tra… Continue reading Malware leverages web injects to empty users’ cryptocurrency accounts