What Is a Pig Butchering Scam?
[ad_1] Digital swindles like business email compromises and romance scams generate billions of dollars for criminals. And they all start with a little bit of “social engineering” to trick a…
The Password Isn’t Dead Yet. You Need a Hardware Key
[ad_1] In August, the internet infrastructure company Cloudflare was one of hundreds of targets in a massive criminal phishing spree that succeeded in breaching numerous tech companies. While some Cloudflare…
The Worst Hacks of 2022
[ad_1] With the pandemic evolving into an amorphous new phase and political polarization on the rise around the world, 2022 was an uneasy and often perplexing year in digital security.…
No, You Haven’t Won a Yeti Cooler From Dick’s Sporting Goods
[ad_1] Congratulations: You’ve been chosen for a Yeti Hopper M20 Cooler. You’ve been chosen many, many times. It’s right there, in your inbox. The email is from Dick’s Sporting Goods.…
Elon Musk’s Twitter Blue Verification Is a Gift to Scammers
[ad_1] At the end of August, Sean Murphy was trying to book a flight between Nairobi, Kenya, and Entebbe, Uganda, with Kenya Airways. “The information on the booking page was…
Windows 11 Now Offers Automatic Phishing Protection
[ad_1] The latest September 2022 version 22H2 update for Windows 11 includes a new feature designed to keep you even safer than before from phishing attacks: the practice of bad…
The Dire Warnings in the Lapsus$ Hacker Joyride
[ad_1] “At the end of the day, the flexibility of how you can abuse corporate accounts to move laterally and pivot over to other applications in the cloud—there are just…
A Sprawling Bot Network Used Fake Porn to Fool Facebook
[ad_1] In November 2021, Tord Lundström, the technical director at Swedish digital forensics nonprofit Qurium Media, noticed something strange. A massive distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack was targeting Bulatlat,…
Why the Twilio Breach Cuts So Deep
[ad_1] The communication company Twilio suffered a breach at the beginning of August that it says impacted 163 of its customer organizations. Out of Twilio’s 270,000 clients, 0.06 percent might…
The FTC Gears Up for a Data Privacy Crackdown
[ad_1] We’ve also looked at how new data rulings in Europe could stop Meta from sending data from the EU to the US, potentially prompting app blackouts across the continent.…