account hijacking

Law enforcement agencies have arrested suspects involved in cyber attacks claimed by USDoD and Anonymous Sudan, as well as a person involved in the hacking of SEC’s X …

Storm-0501, an affiliate of several high-profile ransomware-as-a-service outfits, has been spotted compromising targets’ cloud environments and on-premises systems. …

Malicious Google ads are a well known threat, but malvertising can also be found on other popular online destinations such as Facebook, LinkedIn, and YouTube. Case in point: …

The open-source Rafel RAT is being leveraged by multiple threat actors to compromise Android devices and, in some cases, to lock them, encrypt their contents, and demand money …

A new trove of 361 million email addresses has been added to Have I Been Pwned? (HIBP), the free online service through which users can check whether their account credentials …

A convincing phishing page and some over-the-phone social engineering allowed a group of crooks to steal over $37 million from unlucky Coinbase Pro users. One of them – …

Credential stuffing attacks have exploded this April, Okta warns, and advises its customers to use available tools to block access requests originating from residential …

Midnight Blizzard (aka APT29), a group of Russian hackers tied to the country’s Foreign Intelligence Service (SVR), has leveraged information stolen from Microsoft …

A publicly exposed API of social media platform Spoutible may have allowed threat actors to scrape information that can be used to hijack user accounts. The problem with the …

Five days after Mastodon developers pushed out fixes for a remotely exploitable account takeover vulnerability (CVE-2024-23832), over 66% of Mastodon servers out there have …

A critical vulnerability in GitLab CE/EE (CVE-2023-7028) can be easily exploited by attackers to reset GitLab user account passwords. While also vulnerable, users who have …

Someone has hijacked the X (formerly Twitter) account of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), and posted an announcement saying the agency has decided to allow the …