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Massive Losses Define Epidemic of ‘Pig Butchering’

July 21, 2022 admin A Little Sunshine, chainalysis, courtney nolan, employment fraud, Erin West, FBI, ic3.gov, justin maile, Latest Warnings, pig butchering, REACT Task Force, The Coming Storm, vice news, Web Fraud 2.0, WhatsApp, xtb-market

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 16:35:28 +0000

U.S. state and federal investigators are being inundated with reports from people who’ve lost hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in connection with a complex investment scam known as “pig butchering,” wherein people are lured by flirtatious strangers online into investing in cryptocurrency trading platforms that eventually seize any funds when victims try to cash out.

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A week in security (July 11 – July 17)

July 18, 2022 admin a week in security, bandai namco, cobalt strike, elden ring, mangatoon, microsoft updates, predatory sparrow, pypi, ransomware, spyjoker, tonto team, WhatsApp

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 10:22:29 +0000

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

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WhatsApp warns users: Fake versions of WhatsApp are trying to steal your personal info

July 13, 2022 admin Android, cybercrime, download, fake, Google Play, malware, Mobile, store, WhatsApp

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Wed, 13 Jul 2022 15:09:44 +0000

We take a look at warnings of malware-infested WhatsApp downloads offered outside of the Google Play store.

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A week in security (July 4 – July 10)

July 11, 2022 admin a week in security, apple lockdown mode, Brazil, cloud malware, cyber insurance, discord scam, discord shame, fake job offer, hackerone, my body, my body my data act, show for children, Verified Twitter, Week in security, weekly blog roundup, WhatsApp, youtube ai, Zero-Day, zero-day vulnerability

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 10:55:23 +0000

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

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Europe threatens to ban Facebook over data transfers to the US

July 11, 2022 admin cjeu, court of justice of eu, data protection commission, dpd, eu-us privacy shield, faebook, GDPR, instagram, max schrems, meta, privacy, privacy shield, scc, schrems ii, standard contractual clauses, WhatsApp

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 11 Jul 2022 09:36:30 +0000

The EU is warning Meta that it needs to make big changes to the way it handles data transfers between the Europe and US.

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“Free UK visa” offers on WhatsApp are fakes

July 4, 2022 admin home office, SCAM, scams, survey, uk, uk visas and immigration, UKVI, WhatsApp

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2022 11:20:16 +0000

We take a look at a site claiming to offer “free” visa access to the UK via WhatsApp. All is not quite as it seems.

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A week in security (June 6 – June 12)

June 13, 2022 admin 4Chan, a week in security, apple passkeys, asyncrat, b&q father's day contest 2022, blackbasta, blog recap, cloud data breach, Decryption Tool, dridex, emotet, esxi, Facebook, FBI, federal bureau of investigations, linux, Linux Malware, makemoney, malvertising, meeting owl, microsoft, phishing, prometheus, prometheus ransomware, ransomware, ransomware task force, ssndob, trickbot, Ukraine, Virtual Machines, VM, WhatsApp, whiteboard owl, windows autopatch

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 13 Jun 2022 10:29:57 +0000

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

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WhatsApp spam offers up “B&Q Father’s Day Contest 2022”

June 10, 2022 admin b&q, barbeque, messages, messaging, quiz, scams, spam, weber gas barbeque, WhatsApp

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 10 Jun 2022 15:49:40 +0000

We take a look at a scam barbeque quiz that asks “winners” to send a lot of WhatsApp messages to qualify.

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