The last few years have seen a scourge of account takeovers across social media, with no more visible example than last year's audacious Twitter hack. This week, Twitter, Instagram, and TikTok took part in a coordinated action to reclaim hundreds of accounts that had been used to facilitate trading of those ill-gotten handles within the so-called OGUsers community. It's not going to solve the problem for good, but it's at least something.
That's more than can generally be said for streamer donation platforms Streamlabs and StreamElements, which have allowed far-right and white supremacist users to monetize their hate. Both services do take down accounts that violate their terms of service when reported, but they have yet to take proactive measures, as Twitter and Facebook have done in recent months.
Also having a hard time with moderation: Zoom, which despite introducing measures intended to stop “Zoom-bombing,” still suffers from the scourge. Researchers found that those mitigating features don't do much good against inside jobs—a high school kid calling on 4chan to disrupt his class, for instance—which remain a prevalent source of attacks.
Speaking of attack sources, it turns out SolarWinds provided two of them. Not only did Russian hackers pull off a so-called supply chain attack by manipulating the company's own code, Chinese hackers used a flaw in SolarWinds software to dig deeper into at least one network that they had already compromised.
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