Have you ever received a friend request from a person already on your list of friends on Facebook? If so, you were most likely targeted by a cloned Facebook account. If not, chances are you will. You’ll likely run into a scam artist posing as either you or one...
Social media feels like the natural evolution of technology, like something that would have happened no matter what. But there’s a difference between what we would want and what we actually have. It’s too late now to re-model social media, so we have to...
What started as a false positive alert for a Microsoft signed file turns out to be a WFP application layer enforcement callout driver that redirects traffic to a Chinese IP. How did this happen?
This week, Bitdefender researchers spotted a phishing trifecta targeting hundreds of British citizens with fraudulent emails impersonating Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs (HMRC), blockchain.com and TV licensing. These separate phishing campaigns appear to be...
The Western District of Washington has sentenced a Ukrainian man to seven years in prison for his role in a hacking gang that are estimated to have caused more than one billion dollars worth of damage. 33-year-old Andrii Kolpakov worked for the FIN7 gang (also...
