~this week in security~ reports a hack that should remind consumers to use an ad blocker when they browse the internet: Online ads provider Adform was hacked. On July 27, the company began serving ads containing malicious code. The company says in its annual report that its serves 1.5 billion ads to people’s devices daily. […]
Bleeping Computer reports: Threat actors are using email addresses exposed in data breaches leaked by the ShinyHunters extortion group to send sextortion emails demanding $2,000 in Bitcoin. The emails claim to come from ShinyHunters and tell recipients that hackers compromised their devices after obtaining their email addresses from breached company databases. However, the messages appear […]
TechTimes reports: Notification letters from a company called AssuranceAmerica began arriving in mailboxes on July 10 — and if one reached yours, you are among 6,998,886 people whose driver’s license numbers, insurance records, and in many cases Social Security numbers were stolen in a March cyberattack. The breach is the largest known exposure of Americans’ […]
Don’t be too impressed or too trusting of advice from a chatbot. The Conversation reports: Consider the following scenario. Suzy is 63, recently retired, and trying to decide when to start receiving Social Security and how to manage her retirement savings to minimize the tax hit. She opens an AI chatbot, types in the details and gets a […]
The Register reports: Six people suspected of bank helpdesk fraud are in custody after Dutch cops stormed an Amsterdam residence and caught them in conversation with a potential victim. Police say the individuals were aged between 15 and 30 and operated out of a makeshift call center they had established in an Amsterdam home. Authorities […]
Malwarebytes reports: A convincing fake website is impersonating OpenAI’s ChatGPT download page and infecting visitors with malware designed to steal passwords, browser data, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive information. The site, openew[.]app, closely mimics OpenAI’s real ChatGPT download experience and offers what appear to be official desktop apps for both Windows and macOS. Instead, Windows users […]
By now, many, if not all, people are likely to be leery of text messages or voicemails claiming to be a friend or relative in great financial distress and needing you to send them money. But criminals, adapting creatively, have added a new element: they can superimpose a picture of you next to a hospital […]
The New York Post reports: New York sports fans might want to switch up their passwords. A new study from Duelbits revealed that millions of sports fans across America are at risk of being hacked due to passwords that are related to their favorite teams — and New York sports fans are some of the most […]
Seen on The Creative Learning Guild: Some of the biggest consumer payout operations in the US are discreetly managed by a relatively small group of legal and technology experts in a building on A.B. Data Drive in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, which is somewhat surprisingly named after the company itself. The majority of people will never go there. The majority of […]
Before you download an app, do you actually check to see who developed it and what the privacy terms are? If not, get into the habit of checking before downloading or installing. And think about reviewing your existing apps for privacy and data security terms. Bleeping Computer reports: The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) […]
