Collaborate Disseminate
In this impressive lc7scxvKQOo">social-engineering display, a hacker convinces a cell phone tech-support person to change an account password without being verified in any way…. Continue reading Impressive Social Engineering Display
It’s not hard to imagine the criminal possibilities of automation, autonomy, and artificial intelligence. But the imaginings are becoming mainstream — and the future isn’t too far off. Along similar lines, computers are able to predict court verdicts. My guess is that the real use here isn’t to predict actual court verdicts, but for well-paid defense teams to test various… Continue reading Malicious AI
Yet another leaked catalog of Internet attack services, this one specializing in disinformation: But Aglaya had much more to offer, according to its brochure. For eight to 12 weeks campaigns costing €2,500 per day, the company promised to "pollute" internet search results and social networks like Facebook and Twitter "to manipulate current events." For this service, which it labelled "Weaponized… Continue reading Internet Disinformation Service for Hire
IPv4 addresses are valuable, so criminals are figuring out how to buy or steal them. Hence criminals’ interest in ways to land themselves IP addresses, some of which were detailed this week by ARIN’s senior director of global registry knowledge, Leslie Nobile, at the North American Network Operators Group’s NANOG 67 conference. Nobile explained that criminals look for dormant ARIN… Continue reading Fraudsters are Buying IPv4 Addresses
This works: Khan was arrested in mid-July 2015. Undercover police officers posing as company managers arrived at his workplace and asked to check his driver and work records, according to the source. When they disputed where he was on a particular day, he got out his iPhone and showed them the record of his work. The undercover officers asked to… Continue reading Bypassing Phone Security through Social Engineering