Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Elon Musk’s new idea to move Twitter into profit, charging for the blue verification tick, had a fault in its design. Twitter was not verifying the users were who they we purporting to be – so the threat actors moved in very quickly pretending to be a range of celebrities, …
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By abusing copyright and YouTube cyber criminals were able to steal millions of dollars of royalties. No mention is made of the profit YouTube made from the adverting revenue from these videos involved in the heist! The largest YouTube royalties heist in history spotlights a much larger problem | Mashable
There is a widespread text phishing campaign in progress at this very moment. You may get a text that looks like it comes from the NHS, telling you you have been in close contact with someone who is positive for Covid and that you should get a test kit to …
Phishing campaigns usually depend on social engineering and threat actors are always looking for new ways to exploit your trust: Phishing scam adds a ‘chatbot-like’ twist to steal credit card information and more – The Record by Recorded Future
These are two very different stories but both basically spin around the same idea – on the internet it is easy to pretend to be something you are not: Huge rise in LinkedIn bogus boss scams – Warwickshire Police – BBC News Ukraine war: Investigation finds hundreds of fake charity …
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This is a constant problem – scammers contacting people, usually by phone, offering a service or stating that the victim’s computer is infected by a virus, often claiming to be from Microsoft. Once the scammer establishes “trust” they then offer to remote into or screen share to the victim’s computer, …
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This story was first posted on 11 April 2022. A simple story – Google is taking a bad actor to court that has been using their systems to run their scams. Hounding scammers with litigation (blog.google) UPDATE Here are some details of the scam. Google sues alleged scam site operator …
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