I believe Mr. Moyal has successfully reconstructed how Handala compromised Kash Patel's personal...

Summary

Security researcher Mr. Moyal reconstructed how the Handala threat actor gained access to Kash Patel's personal Gmail account. The compromise leveraged credentials from a previous database dump combined with password reuse across multiple services, and was likely facilitated by the absence of two-factor authentication on the older email account.

Indicators of Compromise

• malware — Handala