Mandiant, the security company bought by Google for $5.4 billion, has its X account hacked

Mandiant , the security company Google bought for 5.4 billion dollars, has its account hacked

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Property of Google
security
farm
Mandiant
spent
several
hours
trying
has
reconquer
control
of
It is
account
on
X
(Previously
known
as
Twitter)
on
Wednesday
After
A
unknown
crook
diverted
he
And
used
he
has
propagated
A
link
that
tent
has
fly
cryptocurrency
Since
people
WHO
clicked
on
that.</p>
<p>

THE pirate Mandiant account was initially used has masquerade as A belonging has Ghost, A business that offers A wallet For storage cryptocurrency. Posts on X encouraged people has visit A malicious website has see if their wallet was A of 250,000 that were eligible For A price of tokens. On several hours, X employees plays tug of war with THE unknown scammer, with scam posts be deleted only has reappear, according to has people WHO follow up THE events.

Mandiant profile page affirming has be affiliated with "friendly crypto wallet" Ghost.
A of THE scam posts propagated by THE diverted Mandiant account.

Eventually, THE crook amended THE @mandiant username And reappeared below A new username. After using THE account has promote A fake website impersonate Ghost And promising free tokens, he job THE enigmatic message: "check bookmarks When You get account back." He Also reprimand Mandiant has "change password Please. »

Job saying "change password please"
Job saying has check bookmarks

HAS THE time This job went live on Ars, THE Mandiant profile poster THE message "This account doesn't exist. »

Enlarge / Mandiant profile declaring "This account doesn't exist."
Mandiant East A of THE leading security companies And best known For portion clients investigate And to recover Since major network compromises. That advantage indicate given he major knowledge In threat actors, a lot of them supported by nation state, And THE often previously unknown tactical, techniques, And procedures they to use has compromise THE security of a few of THE of the world most powerful And well resourced organizations. Google

Mandiant, the security company bought by Google for $5.4 billion, has its X account hacked
Mandiant , the security company Google bought for 5.4 billion dollars, has its account hacked

Enlarge
</figure><p>
Property of Google
security
farm
Mandiant
spent
several
hours
trying
has
reconquer
control
of
It is
account
on
X
(Previously
known
as
Twitter)
on
Wednesday
After
A
unknown
crook
diverted
he
And
used
he
has
propagated
A
link
that
tent
has
fly
cryptocurrency
Since
people
WHO
clicked
on
that.</p>
<p>

THE pirate Mandiant account was initially used has masquerade as A belonging has Ghost, A business that offers A wallet For storage cryptocurrency. Posts on X encouraged people has visit A malicious website has see if their wallet was A of 250,000 that were eligible For A price of tokens. On several hours, X employees plays tug of war with THE unknown scammer, with scam posts be deleted only has reappear, according to has people WHO follow up THE events.

Mandiant profile page affirming has be affiliated with "friendly crypto wallet" Ghost.
A of THE scam posts propagated by THE diverted Mandiant account.

Eventually, THE crook amended THE @mandiant username And reappeared below A new username. After using THE account has promote A fake website impersonate Ghost And promising free tokens, he job THE enigmatic message: "check bookmarks When You get account back." He Also reprimand Mandiant has "change password Please. »

Job saying "change password please"
Job saying has check bookmarks

HAS THE time This job went live on Ars, THE Mandiant profile poster THE message "This account doesn't exist. »

Enlarge / Mandiant profile declaring "This account doesn't exist."
Mandiant East A of THE leading security companies And best known For portion clients investigate And to recover Since major network compromises. That advantage indicate given he major knowledge In threat actors, a lot of them supported by nation state, And THE often previously unknown tactical, techniques, And procedures they to use has compromise THE security of a few of THE of the world most powerful And well resourced organizations. Google

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