Adam Levin

AUGUST 4, 2020

With the arrest of 17-year-old hacker Graham Ivan Clark in Tampa, Florida and more than 30 charges later, we’re starting to get a better understanding of the July 15 hack that compromised 130 Twitter high-profile accounts. . As suspected by many, including us, the hack deployed a spearphishing attack on Twitter employees. .

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Approachable Cyber Threats

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

Category News, Social Engineering. Several large companies were hacked in the first half of September. All of the attacks were carried out with relatively simple phishing and social engineering techniques. In the IHG hack, a couple from Vietnam claimed they were attempting to deploy ransomware on the network.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 4, 2022

During the weekend, multiple owners of Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallets reported having received fake data breach notifications from Trezor, BleepingComputer first reported. A statement shared by Mailchimp CISO Siobhan Smyth with TechCrunch revealed that the company discovered the security breach on March 26.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

The telecommunications giant T-Mobile disclosed a data breach after some of its customers were apparently affected by SIM swap attacks. The telecommunications provider T-Mobile has disclosed a data breach after it became aware that some of its customers were allegedly victims of SIM swap attacks.

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Identity IQ

MAY 7, 2021

One of the primary reasons behind this massive rise in account takeover is the relative ease with which it can be done. With more than 15 billion login credentials available on the dark web because of data breaches, millions of online accounts remain at risk of unauthorized access. Netflix accounts for around $0.76

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SecureWorld News

JULY 31, 2020

Even the title of SecureWorld's first story about the incident had questions: "Famous Twitter Accounts Hacked: Insider Threat or Social Engineering Attack?". And even more recently, the Twitter account of a dead hacker was used to theorize how the attack took place. How was Twitter hacked?

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