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Investment fraud overtakes business email compromise as most reported fraud

Categories: News

Categories: Scams

Tags: FBI

Tags: IC3

Tags: 2022

Tags: report

Tags: investment fraud

Tags: crypto-investment fraud

Tags: pig butchering

Tags: hacked socail media

According to the FBI’s annual report, investment fraud overtook business email compromise as the most reported and most damaging type of fraud in 2022.

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Clop ransomware is victimizing GoAnywhere MFT customers

Categories: Exploits and vulnerabilities

Categories: News

Categories: Ransomware

Tags: Clop

Tags: ransomware

Tags: GoAnywhere

Tags: CVE-2023-0669

The Clop ransomware gang has claimed responsibility for attacking several GoAnywhere MFT customers by exploiting a vulnerability in the managed file transfer software’s administrative interface.

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“Just awful” experiment points suicidal teens at chatbot

Categories: News

Categories: Privacy

Tags: Koko

Tags: Robert Morris

Tags: Motherboard

Tags: AI ethics

Tags: AI

Tags: artificial intelligence

Startup Koko has been criticized for experimenting with young adults at risk of harming themselves. Worse, the young adults were unaware they were test subjects.

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“Brad Pitt,” a still body, ketchup, and a knife, or the best trick ever played on a romance scammer, with Becky Holmes: Lock and Code S04E06

Categories: Podcast

This week on Lock and Code, we speak with author and Twitter pro Becky Holmes about how she teases, fights, and shuts down online romance scammers.

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WhatsApp refuses to weaken encryption, would rather leave UK

Categories: News

Categories: Privacy

Tags: WhatsApp

Tags: Online Safety Bill

Tags: encryption

Tags: Signal end-to-end encryption

Tags: private messaging

With the UK’s Online Safety Bill set to become law this year, WhatsApp is standing its ground against weakening encryption.

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