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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Feds Take Down 13 More DDoS-for-Hire Services

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 09 May 2023 14:05:44 +0000

The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) this week seized 13 domain names connected to “booter” services that let paying customers launch crippling distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. Ten of the domains are reincarnations of DDoS-for-hire services the FBI seized in December 2022, when it charged six U.S. men with computer crimes for allegedly operating booters.

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How to protect your small business from social engineering

Categories: Personal

Tags: Small Business Week 2023

Tags: Small Business Week

Tags: phishing

Tags: pretexting

Tags: baiting

Tags: tailgating

Tags: BEC

Tags: CEO fraud

Tags: business email compromise

Tags: O’Neill Bragg & Staffin

Tags: 2022 Internet Crime Report

Tags: FBI

Tags: most reported fraud

Tags: most damaging fraud

Small businesses are frequent targets of social engineering. Here’s what it is and how to protect against it.

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A week in security (April 10 – 16)

Categories: News

Tags: Lock and Code S04E09

Tags: Bennett Cyphers

Tags: Apple vulnerability

Tags: phone charging station

Tags: FBI

Tags: Yum! Brands

Tags: KFC

Tags: Pizza Hut

Tags: Patch Tuesday

Tags: sextortion

Tags: malvertising

Tags: Weebly

Tags: AI

Tags: virtual kidnapping

Tags: ransomware review

Tags: ransomware in the UK

Tags: ransomware in France

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

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Why is ‘Juice Jacking’ Suddenly Back in the News?

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2023 20:27:56 +0000

KrebsOnSecurity received a nice bump in traffic this week thanks to tweets from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) about “juice jacking,” a term first coined here in 2011 to describe a potential threat of data theft when one plugs their mobile device into a public charging kiosk. It remains unclear what may have prompted the alerts, but the good news is that there are some fairly basic things you can do to avoid having to worry about juice jacking.

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Sextortion “assistance” scammers con victims further

Categories: News

Tags: FBI

Tags: extortion

Tags: sextortion

Tags: crime

Tags: criminal

Tags: nude

Tags: nudes

Tags: photographs

Tags: images

Tags: video

Tags: photo

Tags: scam

Tags: payment

Tags: profit

Tags: assistance

Tags: help

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

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Don’t plug your phone into a free charging station, warns FBI

Categories: Awareness

Categories: News

Tags: FBI

Tags: juice jacking

Tags: public chargers

The FBI warned consumers against using free public charging stations, stating that criminals have managed to hijack public chargers to infect devices with malware.

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FBI Seizes Bot Shop ‘Genesis Market’ Amid Arrests Targeting Operators, Suppliers

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 04 Apr 2023 21:04:11 +0000

Several domain names tied to Genesis Market, a bustling cybercrime store that sold access to passwords and other data stolen from millions of computers infected with malicious software, were seized by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) today. Sources tell KrebsOnsecurity the domain seizures coincided with “dozens” of arrests in the United States and abroad targeting those who allegedly operated the service, as well as suppliers who continuously fed Genesis Market with freshly-stolen data.

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