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A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew

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Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. The phishers also abused legitimate Google services to send Tony an email from google.com, and to send a Google account recovery prompt to all of his signed-in devices.

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Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US

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com were paid for by the same account advertising a number of scam websites selling logo and web design services. The following mind map was helpful in piecing together key events, individuals and connections mentioned above. Searchengineland.com writes the changes are aimed at increasing accountability in digital advertising.

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Discord Admins Hacked by Malicious Bookmarks

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The attacker then loads the stolen token into their own browser session and (usually late at night after the admins are asleep) posts an announcement in the targeted Discord about an exclusive “airdrop,” “NFT mint event” or some other potential money making opportunity for the Discord members.

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Glut of Fake LinkedIn Profiles Pits HR Against the Bots

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The fabricated LinkedIn identities — which pair AI-generated profile photos with text lifted from legitimate accounts — are creating major headaches for corporate HR departments and for those managing invite-only LinkedIn groups. Another “swarm” of LinkedIn bot accounts flagged by Taylor’s group.

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Disneyland Malware Team: It’s a Puny World After All

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.” A fake PNC website overlay or “web inject” displaying a message intended to temporarily prevent the user from accessing their account. The “SKIP” button in the screenshot above sends the user to the real bank login page, “in case the account is not interesting to us,” the manual explains.

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Alleged Boss of ‘Scattered Spider’ Hacking Group Arrested

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. “He stands accused of hacking into corporate accounts and stealing critical information, which allegedly enabled the group to access multi-million-dollar funds,” Murcia Today wrote. ” The cybercrime-focused Twitter/X account vx-underground said the U.K.

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That Domain You Forgot to Renew? Yeah, it’s Now Stealing Credit Cards

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Randall said she didn’t notice at the time because she was in the middle of switching careers, didn’t have any active photography clients, and had gotten out of the habit of checking that email account. “I still don’t have access to it because I don’t have access to the email account tied to my old domain. .