Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:06:05 +0000
In May 2025, the U.S. government sanctioned a Chinese national for operating a cloud provider linked to the majority of virtual currency investment scam websites reported to the FBI. But more than a month later, the accused continues to openly operate accounts at a slew of American tech companies, including Facebook, Github, LinkedIn, PayPal and Twitter/X.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 14 Mar 2025 22:15:27 +0000
A clever malware deployment scheme first spotted in targeted attacks last year has now gone mainstream. In this scam, dubbed “ClickFix,” the visitor to a hacked or malicious website is asked to distinguish themselves from bots by pressing a combination of keyboard keys that causes Microsoft Windows to download password-stealing malware.
Read moreTax preparation firms shared user information with Google and Meta without proper consent by using tracking pixels
Read moreMeta wants to introduce the option to upload a video selfie if you need to recover a lost Facebook or Instagram account.
Read moreThis week on the Lock and Code podcast, we speak with Zach Hinkle and Pieter Arntz about the Facebook funeral livestream scam.
Read moreThe Data Protection Commission has fined Meta $101M because 600 million Facebook and Instagram passwords were stored in plaintext.
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Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2024 21:33:10 +0000
A California man accused of failing to pay taxes on tens of millions of dollars allegedly earned from cybercrime also paid local police officers hundreds of thousands of dollars to help him extort, intimidate and silence rivals and former business partners, a new indictment charges. KrebsOnSecurity has learned that many of the man’s alleged targets were members of UGNazi, a hacker group behind multiple high-profile breaches and cyberattacks back in 2012.
Read moreInstagram users are sharing a hoax in enormous numbers in an attempt at preventing Meta from harvesting their posts and photos to train its AI.
Read moreMeta has admitted to scraping Australian Facebook user’s public photos, posts and other data to train its AI models, including those of kids on adult profiles.
Read moreFacebook scammers are posting links to fake funeral live streams to get victims to sign up for paid services or steeal credit card details
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