Tag: #CyberAwareness
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 […]
Cyberattacks are no longer driven mainly by software vulnerabilities. They are increasingly driven by identity compromise. According to Sophos, identity-based attacks now account for a majority of incident response cases, with attackers using valid credentials in many breaches. In fact, in over 56% of cases, attackers logged in rather than broke in. At the same […]