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Battle with Bots Prompts Mass Purge of Amazon, Apple Employee Accounts on LinkedIn

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On October 10, 2022, there were 576,562 LinkedIn accounts that listed their current employer as Apple Inc. LinkedIn declined to answer questions about the account purges, saying only that the company is constantly working to keep the platform free of fake accounts. The next day, half of those profiles no longer existed.

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Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter Target Resellers of Hacked Accounts

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Facebook, Instagram , TikTok , and Twitter this week all took steps to crack down on users involved in trafficking hijacked user accounts across their platforms. Facebook said it targeted a number of accounts tied to key sellers on OGUsers, as well as those who advertise the ability to broker stolen account sales. THE MIDDLEMEN.

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Service Rents Email Addresses for Account Signups

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One of the most expensive aspects of any cybercriminal operation is the time and effort it takes to create large numbers of new throwaway email accounts. The post Service Rents Email Addresses for Account Signups appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter Target Resellers of Hacked Accounts

Security Boulevard

Facebook, Instagram, TikTok, and Twitter this week all took steps to crack down on users involved in trafficking hijacked user accounts across their platforms. The post Facebook, Instagram, TikTok and Twitter Target Resellers of Hacked Accounts appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Experian, You Have Some Explaining to Do

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Twice in the past month KrebsOnSecurity has heard from readers who’ve had their accounts at big-three credit bureau Experian hacked and updated with a new email address that wasn’t theirs. In both cases the readers used password managers to select strong, unique passwords for their Experian accounts.

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Discord Admins Hacked by Malicious Bookmarks

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The unsuspecting Discord members click the link provided by the compromised administrator account, and are asked to connect their crypto wallet to the scammer’s site, where it asks for unlimited spend approvals on their tokens, and subsequently drains the balance of any valuable accounts.

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Who’s Behind the SWAT USA Reshipping Service?

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First, the Verified administrators warned Apathyp he had violated the forum’s rules barring the use of multiple accounts by the same person, and that Verified’s automated systems had detected that Apathyp and Fearlless were logging in from the same device. ” But the triploo@mail.ru However, in Sept.

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