Meta’s Threads and Your Privacy, Airline Reservation Scams, IDOR Srikes Back
In this episode, we explore the rise of Threads, a new social media app developed by Meta, which has already attracted 10 million users in just seven hours. However, there’s a catch ...
Social Media: Be Aware of What You Share
Two scammers are currently being prosecuted for deploying a romance scam against at least two victims, successfully stealing over £200,000. […] ...
Sued by Meta, Freenom Halts Domain Registrations
The domain name registrar Freenom, whose free domain names have long been a draw for spammers and phishers, has stopped allowing new domain name registrations. The move comes just days after the ...
Twitter’s Paywall 2FA, Mental Health Data for Sale, Meta’s Verified Program
Twitter is phasing out its free text message two-factor authentication (2FA) and putting the feature behind a paywall, prompting security experts to advise Twitter users to switch to other authentication methods. How ...
Social Media Countermeasures – Battling Long-Running Scams on YouTube, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram
For the past few years, I’ve been documenting, screenshotting, and sharing examples of criminal campaigns on the three big social media platforms: Facebook, YouTube and Twitter. I’m not that interested in speculating ...
Multi-Factor Authentication Fatigue Attack, Signal Account Twilio Hack, Facebook and Instagram In-App Browser
A Cisco employee was compromised by a ransomware gang using a technique called multi-factor authentication fatigue, an attack on the Signal messenger app’s SMS service Twilio potentially disclosed the phone numbers of ...
YouTube Bans Hong Kong Election Candidate Lee Ka-chiu
Google and Facebook ban China’s candidate in Hong Kong’s upcoming elections. John Lee Ka-chiu (pictured) was sanctioned by the U.S. in 2020 for his actions supporting China’s suppression of regional autonomy ...
Fake Emergency Search Warrants Draw Scrutiny from Capitol Hill
On Tuesday, KrebsOnSecurity warned that hackers increasingly are using compromised government and police department email accounts to obtain sensitive customer data from mobile providers, ISPs and social media companies. Today, one of ...
Russia Bans Instagram—Influencers Cry While Ukrainians Die
Putin’s Kremlin has followed through on its threat to ban Meta’s Instagram app in Russia. But the reason given seems … suspicious ...
Fake Cash Scams Thrive on Facebook and Insta—FTC
Cryptocurrency scammers love social media—especially Meta’s platforms. Hundreds of millions of dollars were scammed from U.S. consumers in 2021 ...
