Threatening rogue finance apps removed from the Apple Store

Categories: Personal

Tags: app

Tags: finance

Tags: india

Tags: loan

Tags: rogue

Tags: Apple Store

Tags: play store

Tags: google

Tags: threaten

Tags: blackmail

Tags: sextortion

Tags: fake

Tags: deepfake

Tags: deepfakes

Tags: morph

Multiple finance apps have been removed from the App Store after making dubious charges and issuing blackmail threats and other awful behavior.

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New technique can defeat voice authentication “after only six tries”

Categories: Personal

Tags: audio

Tags: edit

Tags: editing

Tags: tags

Tags: fake

Tags: deepfake

Tags: patterns

Tags: vocal recognition

Tags: voice recognition

Tags: AI

Tags: authenticate

Tags: authentication

We take a look at research which claims a way to bypass voice recognition security by stripping synthetic aspects out of fake recordings.

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Warning: Victims’ faces placed on explicit images in sextortion scam

Categories: Personal

Tags: sextortion

Tags: deepfake

Tags: FBI

Tags: blackmail

Tags: extortion

Tags: fake

Tags: fakes

Tags: synthetic

We take a look at some new developments in sextortion cases via a warning issued by the FBI.

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The weirdest security stories of 2022

Categories: News

Tags: Weird

Tags: 2022

Tags: infosec

Tags: social engineering

Tags: scam

Tags: romance

Tags: deepfake

Tags: video games

Tags: advertising

Tags: advergaming

Tags: apes

Tags: NFT

Tags: 419

Tags: space

Tags: astronaut

We take a look at the weirdest security related stories of 2022—from apes to the great unknowns of space.

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Romance scammer deepfakes Mark Ruffalo to con elderly artist

Categories: News

Tags: romance scam

Tags: deepfake

Tags: mark ruffalo

Tags: manga

Tags: theft

Tags: online

Tags: social media

We take a look at a romance scammer getting ahead of the game and using deepfakes to steal a huge amount of money from a victim.

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