Category: Cyber Threat News
A new way to take over Instagram accounts has emerged lately. Hackers used VPN (Virtual Private Network) to communicate with Meta’s AI Bot to avert activation of Instagram’s security systems. Thus, the hacker appeared to be in the same geographical zone as the user of the targeted Instagram account. Hackers took over certain Instagram accounts […]
On Sunday, popular Password Manager Dashlane reported a massive brute-force attack also known as credential stuffing. In the latter, user accounts are fed with as many username and password combinations as needed with the objective that one will be the correct one. The good news is that the company’s internal systems were not affected. However […]
Preben Ver Eecke, Lead Ethical Hacker at Belgian cybersecurity company Sectricity, has reported a serious vulnerability through Meta’s Bug Bounty program. The report was submitted responsibly through the appropriate procedure and was handled and quickly resolved by Meta. For his research, Preben received an award of 157,000 USD. This recognition underlines the importance of in-depth […]