How
quaint seem the days when naïve hacker wannabes phished PayPal logons,
then posted them on IRC chat channels, to try to make a few bucks — but
mostly for bragging rights. That was circa 2002-2003.
Fast forward to the present. At this moment, Facebook is being blanketed by two high-volume email phishing campaigns. Read the full story [Byron Acohido/Last Watchdog]
How
quaint seem the days when naïve hacker wannabes phished PayPal logons,
then posted them on IRC chat channels, to try to make a few bucks — but
mostly for bragging rights. That was circa 2002-2003.
Fast forward to the present. At this moment, Facebook is being blanketed by two high-volume email phishing campaigns. Read the full story [Byron Acohido/Last Watchdog]
A researcher scraped and archived public Parler posts before the conservative social networking service was taken down by Amazon, Apple and Google.
Criminals are using the end of the Trump presidency to deliver a new remote-access trojan (RAT) variant disguised as a sex video of the outgoing POTUS, researchers report.
The “People Nearby” feature in the secure messaging app can be abused to unmask a user’s precise location, a researcher said.
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