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The anatomy of a Facebook account heist

Vox

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. In the beginning, the hack seemed to progress mostly via malware found in fake ChatGPT downloads and ads for these bogus extensions right on Facebook.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Real World Criminals Online

ForAllSecure

That, of course, was not all, but it is an example of how someone -- anyone on the internet -- can take a photo or blog post or Yelp review from social media, or some other seemingly random open source item and tie it back to a crime. Which then I could configure to get on the internet, you know.

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The Hacker Mind Podcast: Hacking Industrial Control Systems

ForAllSecure

They also had a piece of malware called killdisk position on the systems so that when the systems rebooted, it would kick off deleting all the files and deleting all the systems. In a moment I’ll introduce you to someone who is trying to do that--bring ICS equipment to security conferences. But also war over the internet.

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