Categories: News Tags: kidnap Tags: scam Tags: virtual Tags: AI Tags: voice Tags: fake Tags: fraud Tags: hoax Tags: kidnapping We take a look at claims that AI is now being used for a notorious form of kidnapping hoax. |
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Read moreCategories: News Tags: FBI Tags: extortion Tags: sextortion Tags: crime Tags: criminal Tags: nude Tags: nudes Tags: photographs Tags: images Tags: video Tags: photo Tags: scam Tags: payment Tags: profit Tags: assistance Tags: help We take a look at an FBI warning regarding for-profit entities making money from people targeted by sextortion attacks. |
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Read moreCategories: News Tags: Google Pay Tags: Google Pay bug Tags: free money All good things must end, they say, including generous offers of rewards caused by a short-lived glitch in Google Pay. |
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Read moreCategories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Tags: Microsoft Tags: Apple Tags: Google Tags: Adobe Tags: Cisco Tags: SAP Tags: Mozilla Tags: CVE-2023-28252 Tags: CVE-2023-28231 Tags: CVE-2023-21554 Tags: Word Tags: Publisher Tags: Office One fixed vulnerability is being actively exploited by a ransomware gang and many others were fixed in this month’s Patch Tuesday updates. |
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Read moreCategories: News Categories: Ransomware Tags: The Habit Burger Grill Tags: KFC Tags: Pizza Hut Tags: Yum! Brands Tags: ransomware Yum! Brands, owner of KFC, Pizza Hut, and other fast food chains, was breached in January. It recently found employee data has been compromised. |
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Read moreCategories: Awareness Categories: News Tags: FBI Tags: juice jacking Tags: public chargers The FBI warned consumers against using free public charging stations, stating that criminals have managed to hijack public chargers to infect devices with malware. |
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Read moreCategories: Apple Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities Categories: News Tags: iOS 16.4.1 Tags: iPadOS 16.4.1 Tags: macOS 13.3.1 Tags: CVE-2023-28206 Tags: CVE-2023-28205 Tags: use-after-free Tags: out-of-bounds write Tags: IOSurfaceAccelerator Apple has released iOS 16.4.1, iPadOS 16.4.1, and macOS 13.3.1 for the iPhone, iPad, and Mac, respectively, and our advice is to install them as soon as possible. |
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Read moreCategories: News Tags: TikTok Tags: Super FabriXss Tags: Twitter Tags: macOS malware Tags: ransomware Tags: 2023 State of Malware Tags: Western Digital Tags: Android Tags: endpoint security Tags: ChatGPT Tags: K-12 Tags: IoT Tags: Facebook Tags: targeted advertising Tags: Google Tags: data theft Tags: e-file Tags: tax Tags: Uber breach The most interesting security related news from the week of April 3 – 9. |
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Read moreCategories: News Tags: Uber breach Tags: Genova Burns Tags: The Register For the third time in the last six months, internal Uber data has been compromised. This latest incident is the result of a supply chain attack. |
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Read moreCategories: News Categories: Scams Tags: tax scams Tags: efile.com Tags: US tax 2023 Tags: backdoor Tags: Trojan Tags: Johannes Ullrich Tags: MalwareHunterTeam Tags: /u/SaltyPotter Tags: fake network error notification Cybercriminals have compromised eFile.com to host malicious code that allows for the download of Trojans. |
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