InfoSecBulletin Cybersecurity for mankind
Google’s cybersecurity firm Mandiant get back its x (twitter) account after being taken over by someone sharing links to a cryptocurrency platform.
On Wednesday afternoon around 3:30 pm EST, the scammar took the control over mandiant’s x account, renamed it as phantom and tweeted out links to a company called Phantom, which offers customers a wallet for cryptocurrency.
CERT-In Flags Multiple Critical Vulnerabilities in Zoom app
Daily Security Digest Dated 11/23/24
SafetyDetectives’ Research
Malware evades Microsoft Defender and 2FA, stealing $24K in crypto (video)
Over 145,000 ICS Across 175 Countries Found Exposed Online
World to see AI powered “human washing machines”
Hacker compromised over 2000 Palo Alto Networks Firewalls
“Forces Penpals” exposed US and UK Military Social Network’s 1 Million Records
CVE-2024-51503
Trend Micro released updates for Deep Security Agent RCE
Apple Releases Patch for two Actively Exploited Zero-Day
Maxar Space Data Leak, Company admit, Investigation ongoing!
At that time Mandiant’s spokeperson told media that “We are aware of the incident impacting the Mandiant X account and are working to resolve the issue,”.
As of 5:30 p.m. EST, the account has retweeted dozens of messages sent out by Phantom. The record says, representatives for Phantom did not respond to requests for comment. The company’s wallet is widely regarded and available on the app stores for both Google and Apple.
Google security firm Mandiant resolves X account takeover issue. Now while visiting Mandiant’s x account it appears as before with Mandiant’s name and logo.
Mandiant was purchased by Google in 2022 for $5.3 billion and incorporated into Google Cloud.
