Hackers who seized control of the official Instagram account of McDonald's claim that they managed to steal US $700,000 from unsuspecting investors by promoting a fake cryptocurrency.Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Scammers are once again using deepfake technology to dupe unwary internet Facebook and Instagram users into making unwise cryptocurrency investments.AI-generated videos promoting fraudulent cryptocurrency trading platform Immediate Edge have used deepfake footage of British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and His Royal Highness Prince William to reach an estimated 890,000 people via Meta's social media platforms.Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Scammers are once again using deepfake technology to dupe unwary internet Facebook and Instagram users into making unwise cryptocurrency investments.AI-generated videos promoting fraudulent cryptocurrency trading platform Immediate Edge have used deepfake footage of British Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer and His Royal Highness Prince William to reach an estimated 890,000 people via Meta's social media platforms.Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Apps can let you spy on strangers in bars, a gang of cryptocurrency thieves turns to kidnap and assault, and have you joined the mile-high evil twin club?All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Mark Stockley of the brand-new "The AI Fix" podcast.
The United States Department of Justice has dealt a blow to dark web drug traffickers by arresting a man alleged to operate the dark web drugs marketplace Incognito Market.According to a DOJ press release, the alleged operator of a darknet platform sold over $100 million worth of narcotics worldwide.Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Two China-based Android app developers are being sued by Google for an alleged scam targeting 100,000 users worldwide through fake cryptocurrency and other investment apps.Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Google says it is deleting the your Google Chrome Incognito private-browsing data that it should never have collected anyway. Can a zero-risk millionaire-making bot be trusted? And what countries are banned from buying your sensitive data?All this and much much more is discussed in the latest edition of the "Smashing Security" podcast by cybersecurity veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Host Unknown's Thom Langford.
Hardware wallet manufacturer Trezor has explained how its Twitter account was compromised - despite it having sensible security precautions in place, such as strong passwords and multi-factor authentication.Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
If you have been optimistically daydreaming that losses attributed to cybercrime might have reduced in the last year, it's time to wake up.The FBI's latest annual Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) report has just been published, and makes for some grim reading.Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
