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Reddit Systems Hacked by a Sophisticated and Highly-targeted Phishing Attack
This article was originally published by LOGON’s partner FassPassCorp. Click here to view the original article.
Hackers have gained access to internal Reddit systems. They targeted Reddit employees with a sophisticated phishing campaign. They obtained an employee’s credentials and then had access to internal systems and documents. Read the report on Reddit’s Phishing attack.
Credit to Reddit for being open and transparent about the attack. This aligns with many other high-tech companies that have been victims similarly, like Twitter, Mailchimp, LastPass, and CISCO….
The important lesson is that hackers use social engineering methods to convince employees to give away credentials like passwords and 2FA keys. Some hackers target the individual, while others target the central service desks and pretend to be a real users.
Mitigation requires awareness campaigns for the general staff and secure workflow for identity verification for the central services: FastPass Identity Verification Manager.
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