Scammers can pose a serious barrier to people using dating apps, according to the findings of a recent global survey commissioned by Kaspersky. According to the report, 34 per cent of Indian respondents said that they are afraid to use them as they fear being deceived by fraudsters, and 43 per cent generally do not…
A team of cyber-security researchers has discovered security flaws in popular e-reading device Amazon Kindle that might have led hackers to take full control of a Kindle device, opening a path to stealing information stored. By tricking victims into opening a malicious e-book, a threat actor could have leveraged the flaws to target specific demographics…
Written by Tonya Riley Aug 9, 2021 | CYBERSCOOP Two individuals involved with laundering funds from U.S. victims of cybercrime pleaded guilty to their role in a transnational organization that relied in part on hacking to defraud victims out of millions of dollars, the Justice Department announced Friday. The defendants, Arturs Zaharevics and Aleksejs Trofimovics,…
Cyberwarfare / Nation-State Attacks , Endpoint Security , Fraud Management & Cybercrime IBM: Campaign Targeted Reformists Before Election Akshaya Asokan (asokan_akshaya) • August 9, 2021 Screenshot of ITG18’s hacking activities seen from its leaked videos in July 2020. (Source: IBM X-Force) A group dubbed “ITG18,” which apparently is linked to an Iranian advanced…
Fraud Management & Cybercrime , Fraud Risk Management , Social Engineering Millions of Smartphone Users Nationwide Are Targets Dan Gunderman (dangun127) • August 9, 2021 (Photo: Oleg Magni/Unsplash) The Federal Trade Commission has issued a warning about a new smishing scheme targeting millions of smartphones nationwide that impersonates state workforce agencies in an…
Cybercriminals are scanning servers for the Microsoft Exchange ProxyShell RCE vulnerabilities after technical details presented at the Black Hat We use cookies to ensure that we give you the best experience on our website. If you continue to use this site we will assume that you are happy…
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By Marcy Gordon | Associated Press WASHINGTON — A senior Federal Trade Commission official is criticizing Facebook’s move to shut down the personal accounts of two academic researchers and terminate their probe into misinformation spread through political ads on the social network. Facebook wrongly used a 2019 data-privacy settlement with the FTC to justify shutting…
Sea levels will continue to rise for years to come even if the world cuts emissions of greenhouse gases, Prof Ed Hawkins, the lead author of the UN’s climate change report, has warned. He told BBC World News that if the world achieved net zero emissions it would stop extreme weather events getting worse, but…
Organizations have been warned that hackers have started scanning the internet for Microsoft Exchange servers affected by a series of vulnerabilities that were disclosed by researchers last week. Orange Tsai, principal researcher at security consulting firm DEVCORE, discovered that Microsoft Exchange servers are affected by three vulnerabilities that can be exploited by unauthenticated attackers for…
