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"It's a huge threat because it bypasses the security measures put in place by an organization, including one of the most effective, which is MFA," Sami Elhini, biometrics specialist at Cerberus Sentinel, told The Register. The attacks on MFA come as businesses, with the COVID-19 pandemic lifting, are adopting cloud-first and zero-trust models, which often rely on MFA to protect data and applications, Stephanie Aceves, senior director of products management at Tanium, told The Register.
"The New York Post has been hacked. We are currently investigating the cause," the daily newspaper tweeted shortly after removing multiple disturbing tweets published earlier on Thursday. Fast Company was forced to take down its website for approximately two weeks after the hacker pushed racist notifications to its readers' mobile devices using the Apple News platform.
When browsing webpages, such as news articles in the Safari web browser on an iPhone or iPad, users can choose to select and share a partial text excerpt from the page, rather than the entire page itself. "It's actually a useful feature that's great for pointing out specific passages in blogs, news articles, and more," Juli Clover, the website's editor had said earlier.
Marking a pivot from COVID-19 scams, researchers track a single threat actor through the evolution from the pandemic to PayPal, and on to more timely voter scams - all with the same infrastructure. "The range of information credential-phishing themes - PayPal, COVID-19, voting - illustrate how actors often simply pivot from one theme to the next, all while using similar infrastructure and backend functionality," Sherrod DeGrippo, senior director of threat research and detection for Proofpoint, told Threatpost.
The term fake news has been a part of our vocabulary since the 2016 US presidential election. As the amount of fake news in circulation grows larger and larger, particularly in the United States, it often spreads like wildfire.
Police Scotland to roll out encryption bypass technology, as one publication reported this week, causing some Register readers to silently mouth: what the hell? "The technology allows specially trained officers to triage mobile devices to determine if they contain information which may be of value to a police investigation or incident," the Scottish cops say of the program.
