Social media customers on the lookout for a substitute for Elon Musk’s Twitter ought to most likely keep away from Hive Social, in response to a crew of cybersecurity consultants who turned their consideration to the platform after it hit greater than one million customers.
German researchers Zerforschung issued an all-out warning to keep away from Hive Social.
“The problems we reported enable any attacker to entry all knowledge, together with non-public posts, non-public messages, shared media and even deleted direct messages,” the crew wrote in its report. “This additionally consists of non-public electronic mail addresses and telephone numbers entered throughout login.”
Zerforschung was additionally capable of show how a risk actor may additionally alter different customers’ posts.
After reporting the problems to Hive Social on Nov. 26, Zerforschung wrote, the platform took down their servers for just a few hours and relaunched with an up to date model on Dec. 1.
Darkish Studying reached out to Hive Social for remark, however has not but acquired a response.
The Zerforschung crew recommends Mastodon as a (considerably) extra safe social media different to Hive, together with Twitter.
