{"id":102,"date":"2021-10-21T22:53:15","date_gmt":"2021-10-22T02:53:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/?p=102"},"modified":"2021-10-21T22:53:15","modified_gmt":"2021-10-22T02:53:15","slug":"hackers-stealing-browser-cookies-to-hijack-high-profile-youtube-accounts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/2021\/10\/21\/hackers-stealing-browser-cookies-to-hijack-high-profile-youtube-accounts\/","title":{"rendered":"Hackers Stealing Browser Cookies to Hijack High-Profile YouTube Accounts"},"content":{"rendered":"

Google said it found no fewer than 15,000 accounts behind the phishing messages and 1,011 domains that were purpose-built to deliver the fraudulent software responsible for executing cookie stealing malware designed to extract passwords and authentication cookies from the victim’s machine and upload them to the actor’s command-and-control servers. The hackers would then use the session cookies to take control of a YouTube creator’s account, effectively circumventing two-factor authentication (2FA), as well as take steps to change passwords and the account’s recovery email and phone numbers.<\/p>\n

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Link: https:\/\/thehackernews.com\/2021\/10\/hackers-stealing-browser-cookies-to.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Google said it found no fewer than 15,000 accounts behind the phishing messages and 1,011 domains that were purpose-built to deliver the fraudulent software responsible for executing cookie stealing malware designed to extract passwords and authentication cookies from the victim’s machine and upload them to the actor’s command-and-control servers. The hackers would then use the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26646,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[451],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-102","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-week-8","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26646"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":103,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102\/revisions\/103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/community.mis.temple.edu\/mis5211sec002fall2021\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}