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Redditpopular Internet forum, confirmed that he was the victim of a new cyber attack. During this operation, the group cybercriminals succeeded in capturing various sensitive company data, including some of its source code and inside information related to its business.
In a security statement released last Thursday, February 9, Reddit He mentioned that it was a “sophisticated and targeted phishing attack.” The firm said the attackers specifically targeted its website by setting up a fake intranet site that was actually nothing more than a phishing landing page designed to steal Reddit employees’ credentials and your multi-factor authentication (MFA) tokens. apparently not used malware for this attack.
Hackers Attack Reddit
Having come up with the whole plan, cybercriminals they reached out to an unknown number of employees Reddit until one of them fell for this bait, giving attackers access to the site’s internal systems. It was from here that the hackers gained access to confidential data and the source code of the forum.
“After successfully obtaining the credentials of one employee, the attacker gained access to some internal documents, code, as well as some internal dashboards and business systems. We haven’t found any sign of a breach of our core production systems (the parts of our stack that do Reddit and store most of our data)”the company said in a statement.
In addition to explaining the attack, the announcement provided a comforting message to the millions of users of this platform as their personal information was not compromised during the hack. “Based on our investigation, Reddit user accounts and passwords are secure.”stated Reddit.
Cybercriminals announce new victim
Reddit He pointed out that the victim of an elaborate phishing attack was the one who warned of the cyberattack and informed the company’s security team to take immediate action. BleepingComputer indicates that subsequent investigations have established that among the stolen data there are contact information of people important to the company, as well as data of current and former employees.
In addition cybercriminals data on advertising companies were also taken.
Reddit It remains operational, and the cyberattack did not affect the operation of the site in any way, the company concluded. He also stated that he found no evidence that the attackers could have compromised the production systems used to run the website.
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