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When fake dating profiles try the military approach

March 8, 2022 0 Comments army, dating, fake, Malwarebytes news, military, profiles, romance, Scam, social media, stolen image

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Tue, 08 Mar 2022 10:33:11 +0000

We look at the problems faced by people whose images and life story are misused by criminals for the purpose of romance scams.

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Facebook sues data analytics firm OneAudience over malicious SDK

March 2, 2020 0 Comments advertising, Android, data analytics, data loss, data slurping, facebook, grabby apps, iOS, Law & order, lawsuit, malicious sdks, Marketing, mobiburn, Mobile, mobile marketing, one audience, oneaudience, Privacy, profile slurping, profiles, rogue sdks, sdk, sdks, security threats, Social networks, software development kit, third party apps, twitter

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 02 Mar 2020 11:52:59 +0000

Facebook says OneAudience paid developers to install its social-media-profile-looting SDK into their apps to get marketing data for clients.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/cTLgFQQq3iM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook, Twitter profiles slurped by mobile apps using malicious SDKs

November 27, 2019 0 Comments advertising, Android, data loss, data slurping, facebook, iOS, Marketing, mobiburn, Mobile, mobile marketing, one audience, oneaudience, Privacy, profile slurping, profiles, rogue sdks, sdk, sdks, security threats, Social networks, third party apps, twitter

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2019 12:49:19 +0000

Hundreds of users gave permission to these third-party apps to access their social media accounts, but the apps got more handsy than that.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/TEWLcroc9-8″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>