eCommerce retailers face the most significant risk from automated malicious software, with hackers deploying advanced bad bots in nearly two-thirds of account takeover attacks.
A hacker is claiming to have stolen over one billion user records, but security researchers are not convinced that this came from a legitimate TikTok hack or that account takeovers were involved.
An account takeover hit Disneyland's Facebook and Instagram, and the company took some of its social media presence offline for a short period as it recovered.
The Iran-backed campaign targets prominent Israelis and uses spear phishing to gain access to emails, leveraging the account takeover to hijack existing conversations.
Digital Shadows Photon Research team found that over 24 billion stolen user credentials were available for sale on the dark web market in 2022, an increase of 65% in two years.
EA introduced new security measures to prevent account takeover attacks after hackers successfully breached high-profile players’ accounts via phishing and social engineering attacks.
