Can You Outsmart Social Media Scammers? Unlocking The Secrets of Social Media Scams

Credit to Author: Quick Heal| Date: Tue, 23 Apr 2024 12:16:57 +0000

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Social media scams are like those little troublemakers lurking in the corners of our online lives. We’re all…

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Quick Byte: Top Cyber News of the Week (14th to 20th April, 2024)

Credit to Author: Saurabh Vadghule| Date: Sat, 20 Apr 2024 05:30:58 +0000

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India ranks 10th in cybercrime as per the recent “World Cybercrime Index” In the recently released “World Cybercrime…

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Twitter’s Clumsy Pivot to X.com Is a Gift to Phishers

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 10 Apr 2024 14:28:17 +0000

On April 9, Twitter/X began automatically modifying links that mention “twitter.com” to redirect to “x.com” instead. But over the past 48 hours, dozens of new domain names have been registered that demonstrate how this change could be used to craft convincing phishing links — such as fedetwitter[.]com, which is currently rendered as fedex.com in tweets.

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Thread Hijacking: Phishes That Prey on Your Curiosity

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 23:56:13 +0000

Thread hijacking attacks. They happen when someone you know has their email account compromised, and you are suddenly dropped into an existing conversation between the sender and someone else. These missives draw on the recipient’s natural curiosity about being copied on a private discussion, which is modified to include a malicious link or attachment. Here’s the story of a recent thread hijacking attack in which a journalist was copied on a phishing email from the unwilling subject of a recent scoop.

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