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Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz

December 3, 2024 0 Comments @chenlun, A Little Sunshine, and mobile anti-abuse working group, Anti-Phishing Working Group, coalition against unsolicited commercial email, icann, interisle consulting, internet corporation for assigned names and numbers, john levine, Latest Warnings, malware, messaging, new gtlds, phishing, Spam, The Coming Storm, u.s. postal service

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:27:31 +0000

Phishing attacks increased nearly 40 percent in the year ending August 2024, with much of that growth concentrated at a small number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) — such as .shop, .top, .xyz — that attract scammers with rock-bottom prices and no meaningful registration requirements, new research finds. Meanwhile, the nonprofit entity that oversees the domain name industry is moving forward with plans to introduce a slew of new gTLDs.

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Warning issued over vulnerability in cardiac device monitoring software

July 7, 2023 0 Comments cve-2023-31222, deserialization, Exploits and vulnerabilities, medtronic, messaging, news, paceart optima, update

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Categories: News

Tags: Medtronic

Tags: Paceart Optima

Tags: CVE-2023-31222

Tags: deserialization

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A vulnerability in Medtronic’s Paceart Optima software could lead to further network penetration, RCE, and DoS attacks

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Warning issued over vulnerability in cardiac devices

July 6, 2023 0 Comments cve-2023-31222, deserialization, Exploits and vulnerabilities, medtronic, messaging, news, paceart optima, update

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Categories: News

Tags: Medtronic

Tags: Paceart Optima

Tags: CVE-2023-31222

Tags: deserialization

Tags: update

Tags: messaging

A vulnerability in Medtronic’s Paceart Optima cardiac device could lead to further network penetration, RCE, and DoS attacks

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Encrypted messaging service eavesdropped on by police, users arrested

February 8, 2023 0 Comments encrypted, end-to-end encryption, exclu, messaging, news

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Tags: Exclu

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Law enforcement eavesdropped on encrypted messaging service Exclu for five months before pulling the plug on it.

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TikTok owner ByteDance pushed a pro-China agenda to Americans, say former employees

July 28, 2022 0 Comments bytedance, messaging, news, Privacy, TikTok, topbuzz

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2022 15:04:07 +0000

We take a look at claims of both censorship and promotion related to various apps from the Bytedance stable.

The post TikTok owner ByteDance pushed a pro-China agenda to Americans, say former employees appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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WhatsApp spam offers up “B&Q Father’s Day Contest 2022”

June 10, 2022 0 Comments b&q, barbeque, messages, messaging, quiz, scams, Spam, weber gas barbeque, whatsapp

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 15:49:40 +0000

We take a look at a scam barbeque quiz that asks “winners” to send a lot of WhatsApp messages to qualify.

The post WhatsApp spam offers up “B&Q Father’s Day Contest 2022” appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

Security Sophos

Report calls for web pre-screening to end UK’s child abuse ‘explosion’

March 17, 2020 0 Comments age verification, chat apps, child abuse, child abuse imagery, child porn, child safety, children online, Cryptography, encryption, facebook, facetime, iicsa, imessage, Instagram, Law & order, messaging, Messenger, online grooming, online safety, photodna, predators, Privacy, snapchat, whatsapp, yubo

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 16 Mar 2020 11:57:40 +0000

The IICSA report cited “unprecedented levels of depravity” and said that encryption is getting in the way of current screening.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ELFeXrr3UeQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Switch to Signal for encrypted messaging, EC tells staff

February 26, 2020 0 Comments chat apps, Cryptography, cyber espionage, data loss, european commission, Law & order, messaging, messaging apps, Mobile, pegasus, Privacy, secret messaging, security threats, signal, spying, whatsapp

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Wed, 26 Feb 2020 11:31:35 +0000

Formerly preferred diplomatic app WhatsApp apparently isn’t up to snuff.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/mRJrv_YSfXw” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook encrypted messaging will ‘create hiding places for child abuse’

February 10, 2020 0 Comments chat apps, child abuse, child abuse imagery, child safety, children online, Cryptography, encryption, facebook, Instagram, Law & order, messaging, Messenger, nspcc, online grooming, online safety, open letter, predators, Privacy, whatsapp

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2020 11:44:10 +0000

Child safety groups penned an open letter to Facebook, urging a delay on encrypted messaging until sufficient safeguards are in place.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/ns3LDtnKrEc” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Facebook refuses to break end-to-end encryption

December 12, 2019 0 Comments #nobackdoors, backdoors, congress, Cryptography, encrypted messaging, encryption back doors, facebook, Instagram, Law & order, messaging, no backdoors, Privacy, Social networks, whatsapp

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 17:26:50 +0000

Congress on Tuesday told Facebook it must put backdoors into its end-to-end encryption, or it’ll be forced to.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/Lghno3KWNa0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>