A huge phishing campaign has targeted over 130 corporations, affecting Twilio and Signal

The 0ktapus phishing campaign is likely one of the best-executed safety assaults of this scale so far. | Illustration by Alex Castro / The Verge Over 130 organizations, together with Twilio, DoorDash, and Cloudflare, have been doubtlessly compromised by hackers as a part of a months-long phishing campaign nicknamed “0ktapus” by safety researchers. Login credentials … Read more

Signal alerts 1,900 messaging users to a security threat from Twilio hackers

Photo Illustration by Rafael Henrique / SOPA Images / LightRocket through Getty Images An information breach earlier this month affecting Twilio, a gateway that helps net platforms talk over SMS or voice, might have had repercussions for users of Signal, the encrypted messaging platform. Today, Signal announced it has alerted 1,900 users that their accounts … Read more

Twilio suffers data breach after its employees were targeted by a phishing campaign

Photo by Amelia Holowaty Krales / The Verge Digital communication platform Twilio was hacked after a phishing campaign tricked its employees into revealing their login credentials (via TechCrunch). The firm disclosed the data breach in a post on its blog, noting that solely “a restricted quantity” of buyer accounts were affected by the assault. Twilio … Read more