Collaborate Disseminate
For years, abusers have used complex keywords to covertly talk about imagery, but analysts have sussed out much of the secret code. Continue reading AI helps experts find thousands of child sexual abuse imagery keywords
For years, abusers have used complex keywords to covertly talk about imagery, but analysts have sussed out much of the secret code. Continue reading AI helps experts find thousands of child sexual abuse imagery keywords
It’s like a cloud of personal information breathed out in a plume by a database that didn’t bother to wear a mask. Continue reading Password-free database of exercise app Kinomap leaks 42m user records
First, 267m records were exposed & sold for 0.0002 cents each on the Dark Web. It was taken down but got reposted with yet more records. Continue reading 309 million Facebook users’ phone numbers (and more) found online
Drinking bleach does NOT cure coronavirus: it’s just one dangerous myth that Facebook will alert us to if we’ve interacted with it. Continue reading Facebook to alert us if we’ve been exposed to fake coronavirus news
The massive ICEBUCKET scheme has, so far, impersonated more than 2m people in 30+ countries, defrauding more than 300 brands of ad dollars. Continue reading Bot creates millions of fake eyeballs to rip off smart-TV advertisers
UN experts believe the DPRK cyber-steals and launders money, extorts companies and funnels the cash into its nuclear program. Continue reading US offers up to $5m reward for information on North Korean hackers
They were posing as crypto wallets in order to rip off users’ private keys and mnemonic phrases and drain real wallets. Google’s yanked them. Continue reading 49 malicious Chrome extensions caught pickpocketing crypto wallets
The Big Bad Wolves haven’t blown the house down but did come up with a way to “hold the three little pigs responsible for being delicious,” Signal said. Continue reading Signal: We’ll be eaten alive by EARN IT Act’s anti-encryption wolves
It doesn’t have regulatory authority, so it can’t do much, but the hundreds of registrars it authorizes can and should. Continue reading ICANN asks registrars to crack down on scam coronavirus websites