Vox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

He now works as a threat hunter at the National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) in Vietnam, in addition to serving as the co-founder of Chống Lừa Đảo, an anti-scam nonprofit. From there, the hackers can change passwords and add security keys or two-factor authentication, and usually, they proceed to commit a crime.

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The Verge

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

And while there are ways to get them taken down, it’s time-consuming to chase down every fake to get it removed, and demoralizing to see ripoffs continue to proliferate across the internet. They thought they were buying the authentic Alternate Histories calendars, rather than the knockoffs. Photo: Matt Buchholz. Image: Matt Buchholz.

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Vox

JUNE 3, 2023

Reporters asked government officials all the way up to the White House press office what was going on. Online misinformation has existed since the dawn of the internet, and crudely photoshopped images fooled people long before generative AI became mainstream. On May 22, a fake photo of an explosion at the Pentagon caused chaos online.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) tallied over $1.8 But for the most part, the BEC "weaponization" process is more aligned to compiling the reconnaissance to develop authentic-appearing email accounts and messages. Every state and 177 countries have reported BEC scam complaints.

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The Verge

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Hackers targeted the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) email servers, sending out thousands of phony messages that say its recipients have become the victims of a “sophisticated chain attack,” first reported by Bleeping Computer.

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Vox

DECEMBER 28, 2023

When Bryce, a 29-year-old nonprofit director in Kansas City, started using it last summer, “It was the one that everyone was talking about.” When Hinge had a service outage in March of this year, the internet was brimming with glee. Every time she’s reported someone for inappropriate behavior, Hinge has taken action.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 4, 2021

When Gab's CEO Andrew Torba was first contacted by reporters at WIRED about a possible breach, he responded like this on the Gab blog: "Today we received an inquiry from reporters about an alleged data breach. We have searched high and low for chatter on the breach on the Internet and can find nothing.

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