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Cyber-security firm Norton has dubbed the scams "reservation hijacks" because criminals have contacted Booking.com customers pretending to be hotels in order to trick victims into sending them money based on bogus reservation problems.

From BBC • Apr. 15, 2026

The pilot episode of “The X-Files” spinoff “The Lone Gunmen,” featured a pilot who hijacks an airplane and flies it into the World Trade Center six months before the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 15, 2026

In a subsequent step, dAdo enters the plant cell through the membrane transporter ENT3, where it hijacks the host's immune system to induce cell death.

From Science Daily • Nov. 27, 2024

Some questions you can ask yourself are: “Why am I getting triggered? What’s happening to my brain when anxiety hijacks it? Can I tolerate this feeling without urgently acting on it?”

From Los Angeles Times • Dec. 5, 2023

They subvert their hosts' cellular programming to make copies of themselves, just as a computer virus hijacks an infected computer and causes it to send out more copies of the virus.

From The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind by Boyle, James