{"id":4270,"date":"2025-03-17T22:16:10","date_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:16:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=4270"},"modified":"2025-03-17T22:16:10","modified_gmt":"2025-03-17T13:16:10","slug":"attackers-tried-hijacking-12000-github-accounts-with-click-fix-alerts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/?p=4270","title":{"rendered":"Attackers tried hijacking 12,000 GitHub accounts with click-fix alerts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<br \/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.infoworld.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/3846736-0-74032100-1742210654-shutterstock_2477533867.jpg?quality=50&amp;strip=all\" alt=\"\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u201cSafety Alert: Uncommon Entry Try,\u201d the faux alert reads, Luc4m stated. \u201cWe&#8217;ve got detected a login try in your GitHub account that seems to be from a brand new location or gadget.\u201d<\/p>\n<aside class=\"jwPlayer--floatingContainer\" role=\"complementary\" data-nosnippet=\"\">\n<\/aside>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"users-are-prompted-to-update-passwords-2fa\">Customers are prompted to replace passwords, 2FA<\/h2>\n<p>The alert provided a variety of steps to safe their accounts towards unauthorized exercise. \u201cShould you acknowledge this exercise, no additional motion is required. Nonetheless, if this was not you, we strongly advocate securing your account instantly,\u201d it reads.<\/p>\n<p>The beneficial actions embrace updating one\u2019s password, reviewing and managing lively classes, and enabling two-factor authentication (2FA).<\/p>\n<p>All these choices, nevertheless, got here with hyperlinks that led to a GitHub authorization web page for the <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/luc4m\/status\/1901310423330083237\/photo\/1\">\u201cgitsecurityapp\u201d<\/a> OAuth app. The authorization web page features a record of dangerous permissions together with entry to and deleting private and non-private repositories, learn or write person profiles, learn group membership and initiatives, and entry to GitHub gists.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cSafety Alert: Uncommon Entry Try,\u201d the faux alert reads, Luc4m stated. \u201cWe&#8217;ve got detected a login try in your GitHub account that seems to be from a brand new location or gadget.\u201d Customers are prompted to replace passwords, 2FA The alert provided a variety of steps to safe their accounts towards unauthorized exercise. \u201cShould you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4272,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-4270","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-cloud-computing"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4270"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4271,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4270\/revisions\/4271"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4270"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4270"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aireviewirush.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4270"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}