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September Snafus: Hackers Take Advantage of Unwitting Employees

Approachable Cyber Threats

All of the attacks were carried out with relatively simple phishing and social engineering techniques. So far in September, IHG , Uber , and Rockstar Games have all been victims of major independent cyber attacks. In the IHG hack, a couple from Vietnam claimed they were attempting to deploy ransomware on the network.

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Twitter's Cyber Attack and Takeover: It Was Spear Phishing

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The hackers then used this level of account support to get through two-factor authentication (2FA) and access 130 widely followed Twitter accounts: Tweeting from 45. We are also improving our methods for detecting and preventing inappropriate access to our internal systems and prioritizing security work across many of our teams.