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Telegram-based 'Outsider Enterprise' accused of sending millions of scam texts and impersonating trusted brands
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Telegram-based 'Outsider Enterprise' accused of sending millions of scam texts and impersonating trusted brands
Victims include hospitality, retail and education sectors A group of financially motivated cyberscammers who specialize in Scattered-Spider-like fake IT support phone calls managed to trick employees at about 20 organizations into installing a modified version of Salesforce's Data Loader that allows the crims to steal sensitive data.…
PLUS: DOGE web design disappoints; FBI stops crypto scams; Zacks attacked again; and more! Infosec In Brief A security researcher has found that Google could leak the email addresses of YouTube channels, which wasn’t good because the search and ads giant promised not to do that.…
Latest trope is tricky enough to fool even the technical crowd… almost Google says it's now hardening defenses against a sophisticated account takeover scam documented by a programmer last week.…
Play Store commissions are a nice little earner, wherever they come from Google has been accused of profiting from gift card scams.…
Speculation builds over whether a nearly year-old policy change was to blame Google-owned security house Mandiant's investigation into how its X account was taken over to push cryptocurrency scams concludes the "likely" cause was a successful brute-force password attack.…
Plus: Chocolate Factory launches second lawsuit against false DMCA takedowns Google has sued three scammers for offering a fake download of its Bard AI chatbot that contained malware capable of stealing credentials for small business' social media accounts.…
Google's blue tick proves untrustworthy Google says it has fixed a flaw that allowed a scammer to impersonate delivery service UPS on Gmail, after the data-hoarding web behemoth labeled the phony email as authentic.…
The scam was lurking behind the content of an adult website Scammers using Google Ads, stolen blog articles, and a "popunder" ad scheme on adult websites pulled in more than $275,000 a day by generating millions of ad impressions every month.…