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Dark Reading
A Dark Web antihero has been stealing and then reselling credentials from unsavory online characters. Their motives are questionable, but the schadenfreude is irresistible.
The Register
'High-pressure' sales tactics targeted people registered with Telephone Preference Service A "debt management company" is itself facing a bill from Britain's data regulator for sending hundreds of thousands of text messages to households that opted not to receive marketing junk mail.…
Krebs on Secuity
Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. What follows is an interview with a Russian hacker responsible for a series of aggressive crypto spam campaigns that recently prompted several large Mastodon communities to temporarily halt new registrations. According to the hacker, their spam software has been in private use until the last few weeks, when it was released as open source code.
Graham Cluley
An unauthorised party has seized control of the @avtestorg Twitter account, nuked its profile picture and banner, replaced its name and description with a full-stop, and set about retweeting numerous messages about NFTs. Anti-virus testing organisation AV-Test appears to have done nothing wrong, so how was its account hacked?
The Register
PLUS: Chinese robodogs include backdoor; OpenAI helps spammer; A Dutch data disaster; And more! Fortinet last week admitted that attackers have found new ways to exploit three flaws it thought it had fixed last year.… Infosec In Brief
Bleeping Computer
Mozilla has announced the integration of Firefox Relay, an email protection system that helps users evade trackers and spammers, directly into the Firefox browser. [...]
Krebs on Secuity
If you received a link to LinkedIn.com via email, SMS or instant message, would you click it? Spammers, phishers and other ne'er-do-wells are hoping you will, because they've long taken advantage of a marketing feature on the business networking site which lets them create a LinkedIn.com link that bounces your browser to other websites, such as phishing pages that mimic top online brands (but chiefly Linkedin's parent firm Microsoft).
The Hacker News
Malicious actors are exploiting Cascading Style Sheets (CSS), which are used to style and format the layout of web pages, to bypass spam filters and track users' actions. That's according to new findings from Cisco Talos, which said such malicious activities can compromise a victim's security and privacy. "The features available in CSS allow attackers and spammers to track users' actions and
The Register
Spammers will probably bid to buy it, so community is trying to find a better home for decades-old service The Spam and Open Relay Blocking System (SORBS) – a longstanding source of info on known sources of spam widely used to create blocklists – has been shuttered by its owner, cyber security software vendor Proofpoint.… Exclusive