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3, as of July 31, 2020. [update] On July 15, 2020, between 20:00 and 22:00 UTC, 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were reportedly compromised by outside parties to promote a bitcoin scam. [1] [2] Twitter and other media sources confirmed that the perpetrators had gained access to Twitter's administrative tools so that they could alter the ...
Graham Clark, 17, was the "mastermind" of the mid-July attack that targeted the accounts of Barack Obama, Joe Biden, and others, authorities said. Florida teen charged in massive Twitter hack ...
2016. 2020 →. v. t. e. In March 2016, the personal Gmail account of John Podesta, a former White House chief of staff and chair of Hillary Clinton 's 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, was compromised in a data breach accomplished via a spear-phishing attack, and some of his emails, many of which were work-related, were hacked.
According to Ghosh, phishing attacks increased from 187,203 in 2010 to 445,004 in 2012. In August 2013, Outbrain suffered a spear-phishing attack, and in November 2013, 110 million customer and credit card records were stolen from Target customers through a phished subcontractor account. CEO and IT security staff subsequently fired.
Twitter has provided an update on what happened the day the social media giant lost control over its platform. Twitter Says ‘Phone Spear Phishing’ Let Hackers Gain Employee Credentials Skip to ...
Cyber criminals are getting savvier, with a trend called "spear phishing". Here’s how to tease out a legit email from a fake. Cyber criminals are getting savvier, with a trend called "spear ...
In June 2016, Cozy Bear was implicated alongside the hacker group Fancy Bear in the Democratic National Committee cyber attacks. While the two groups were both present in the Democratic National Committee's servers at the same time, each appeared to be unaware of the other, independently stealing the same passwords and otherwise duplicating each other's efforts.
In 2020, a major cyberattack suspected to have been committed by a group backed by the Russian government penetrated thousands of organizations globally including multiple parts of the United States federal government, leading to a series of data breaches. [1] [28] [29] The cyberattack and data breach were reported to be among the worst cyber ...