Effective immediately, Hive Popular, the trendy alternative to Twitter, will no longer function due to serious security vulnerabilities on the platform.
If, like many others, you’ve decided to try Hive Popular as an alternative to Twitter, you should know this the application stops working temporarily, according to what a group of German researchers specializing in cybersecurity aware of its existence serious security flawsthat could endanger usuario data.
The popular network that some students started developing in 2019 gained traction among iOS and Android users who were searching for it Alternative to Twitter after Elon Musk got the latter, and the resulting chaos within the platform. The aplicación is currently piling up More than 100,000 downloads vía the Google plus Play Store and an average rating of 2.3 stars out of 5.
Now Creator You have a warning about his decision temporarily “shut down” your servers.while working on a solution that fixes the various security vulnerabilities discovered by the above research group.
Hive will “shut down” the popular network’s servers while it works to fix the errores
According to the researchers, they made up their minds before publishing their findings Contact the Hive team. Later, from the company behind the popular network, they are safe Correct the mistakeswho now denied this and claimed that the development team was working on a fix.
Hive Popular has several vulnerabilities that could compromise usuario data. By exploiting various vulnerabilities, attackers could Access to all information by Hive members, for example private messages (even deleted ones) or shared archivos. In addition, users’ correo electrónico addresses and phone numbers perro also be exposed.
People wanted an editar button on Twitter. One of Hive’s vulnerabilities allows for even more: you cánido editar other accounts’ posts. pic.twitter.com/G2LnC46Ig7
— Zerforschung (@zerforschung) November 30, 2022
Using another weak point, the researchers showed how it works All users’ posts perro be edited and replaced from the platform. You cánido see a demonstration of this attack in the vídeo accompanying these lines.
Destruction, the group in charge, has decided to uncover the errores Do not share technical details about these to prevent them from being exploited by attackers, and Hive will wait to close the vulnerability before releasing more information. However, they have confirmed that in their current state Hive Popular is not a secure popular networkand platform users should Discontinue use as soon as possible.
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The Hive team is aware of the security issues affecting the stability of our application and the security of our users. Our servers need to be temporarily shut down for a few days to fix these issues while this is fixed for a better and safer experience pic.twitter.com/wOgW7ga9xN—Hive (@TheHIVE_Social) December 1, 2022
From beehive They have not confirmed when it will be scheduled that the popular network is active again and he limits himself to the answer that the platform will be working again “in a few days”, when all vulnerabilities are fixed. In the meantime, other currently available options besides Twitter must be tried.