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On Thursday, a Puerto Rico judge sentenced a former University of Puerto Rico student to 13 months in prison for hacking over a dozen email and Snapchat accounts of female colleagues. Besides targeting dozens of student email accounts, he successfully hacked into multiple university email accounts and collected personal information in spoofing and phishing attacks.
Attackers abused open redirects on the websites of Snapchat and American Express in a series of phishing attacks to steal Microsoft 365 credentials. Open redirects are web app weaknesses that allow threat actors to use the domains of trusted organizations and websites as temporary landing pages to simplify phishing attacks.
Attackers are exploiting a well-known open redirect flaw to phish people's credentials and personally identifiable information using American Express and Snapchat domains, researchers have found. Open redirect is a security vulnerability that occurs when a website fails to validate user input, which allows bad actors to manipulate the URLs of domains from legitimate entities with good reputations to redirect victims to malicious sites, researchers said.
On Wednesday, May 11th, The Crown Court at Southwark in London sentenced 21-year-old Karim Hassan to five years in prison for pulling off multiple crypto robberies and making lethal threats to his victims, a source familiar with the specifics of the case has told BleepingComputer. Hassan, a resident of London's Maida Vale district would use Snapchat to anonymously interact with customers looking to exchange their cryptocurrency for cash in person.
A fourth suspect has been arrested today for his role in the Twitter hack last year that gave attackers access to the company's internal network exposing high-profile accounts to hijacking. The United States Department of Justice announced that Joseph O'Connor, a 22-year old UK national, was detained in Spain on several charges related to the Twitter hack in July 2020.
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