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Threatening rogue finance apps removed from the Apple Store

July 11, 2023 admin .loan, App, apple store, Blackmail, deepfake, deepfakes, fake, finance, google, India, morph, personal, Play store, rogue, sextortion, threaten

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

June 8, 2023 admin Blackmail, deepfake, extortion, fake, fakes, FBI, personal, sextortion, synthetic

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

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A week in security (April 10 – 16)

April 17, 2023 admin AI, apple vulnerability, bennett cyphers, FBI, kfc, lock and code s04e09, malvertising, news, Patch Tuesday, phone charging station, pizza hut, ransomware in france, ransomware in the uk, ransomware review, sextortion, virtual kidnapping, weebly, yum! brands

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The most interesting security related news from the week of April 10 – 16.

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Sextortion “assistance” scammers con victims further

April 13, 2023 admin assistance, Crime, criminal, extortion, FBI, help, images, news, nude, nudes, payment, Photo, Photographs, profit, SCAM, sextortion, video

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We take a look at an FBI warning regarding for-profit entities making money from people targeted by sextortion attacks.

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Former cop abused unrevoked system access to extort women

October 21, 2022 admin bryan wilson, cyberstalking, lmpd, louisville metropolitan police department, news, privacy, sextortion, snapchat

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Details of a cyberstalking and sextortion case involving a former cop and his Snapchat victims have come to light.

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Sextortionists used mobile malware to steal nude videos, contact lists from victims

September 7, 2022 admin extortion, Interpol, mobile malware, news, sextortion

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In an international police action supported by Interpol, law enforcement agencies have uncovered and dismantled an international sextortion ring.

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A week in security (August 1 – 7)

August 8, 2022 admin a week in security, arris, blog recap, blog roundup, cisco vpn, FCC, justalk, lock and code, lock and code podcast, malwarebytes edr, managed service providers, mick foley, MSP, netstandard, ps5 scam, ransomware, Rat, robotext, sextortion, smishing, sms phishing, Twitter, twitter compromise, VMware, Week in security, weekly blog roundup, woody rat

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 08 Aug 2022 11:38:31 +0000

The most important and interesting computer security stories from the last week.

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When a sextortion victim fights back

August 1, 2022 admin david mondore, hacking, katie yates, my eyes only, natalie claus, sextortion, snapchat, snapchat sextortion, state university of new york college

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2022 19:14:53 +0000

A college student fell victim to a Snapchat sextortion scheme. With a friend’s help, she ‘hacked back’ and sent him to jail.

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