Disney says most of its business will stop using Slack by the end of the year

By Sydney Lake for Fortune
Friday, September 20, 2024

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However, some cybersecurity experts think the hackers’ intentions are fishy.

“Hacktivists are highly unlikely to run operations of such scale to protect intellectual property and the rights of artists,” Ilia Kolochenko, CEO at ImmuniWeb, told Infosecurity Magazine. Instead, the group was more likely to have wanted to blackmail Disney or censor certain content topics from its library.

It’s hard to say, however, exactly why NullBulge was able to hack Disney’s Slack channels. Possibilities include a misconfiguration of their messaging applications, weak security practices, outdated software, human error, and other vulnerabilities.

“With larger companies, there is a greater risk for human error because you have a larger number of employees who are accessing your company data around the world,” Dan Schiappa, chief product and services officer at cybersecurity company Arctic Wolf, told Fortune. “Each one of these people and their workstations is a new potential risk, making it critical that organizations have full and clear visibility into their IT environment to catch any vulnerabilities or out-of-the-norm behaviors.”

So in the end, it may not completely be Slack’s fault after all, cybersecurity experts say. Read Full Article