Facebook Figures Five Percent of Accounts Are Fake
Facebook on Thursday said it recently disabled billions of bogus accounts set up by “bad actors” and that five percent of active accounts are...
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Cybercrime group that used malware to steal $100 million from online banking accounts shut down
Classifying malware to combat cyber threats Dr. Lorenzo Cavallaro, professor of computer science chair in cybersecurity at King’s College London, breaks down the importance...
Boost Mobile Detected Unauthorized Activity on Customer Accounts
California-based Boost Mobile, founded in 2000 as a joint venture with Nextel Communications and now a Sprint subsidiary, has warned an unspecified number of...
Amazon Hit by an “Extensive” Fraud; Reveals That Unidentified Hackers Were Able To Siphon Funds from Merchant Accounts
on Friday, May 10, 2019 | Amazon.com Inc. reveals that unidentified hackers were able to siphon assets from merchant’s accounts for over six months...
Can Aadhaar card data be misused to open bank accounts?
Can your Aadhaar Card data be misused by fraudsters to open bank accounts? Don’t worry! Aadhaar Card holders often ask what will happen if...
ATO Attacks Affect Around 4,000 Office 365 Accounts
ATO (Account Takeover) attacks have reportedly impacted roughly 4,000 Office 365 accounts, which were later used to carry out malicious activities. Details about the...
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Docker Hub Breach Hits 190,000 Accounts
Docker Hub, the world’s largest library and community for container images, informed users last week that it had discovered unauthorized access to one of...
Hackers stole 150 thousand rubles from the accounts of Belarusian enterprises through the Client Bank
At the beginning of April 2019, the police received a statement from an employee of one of a metropolitan organization, who reported that an...
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Facebook Collected Contacts from 1.5 Million Email Accounts Without Users’ Permission
Not a week goes without a new Facebook blunder. Remember the most recent revelation of Facebook being caught asking users new to the social...
Bad Bots Steal Accounts, Content and Skew the Web Ecosystem
Bad bots are a continuing problem. Good bots, those that perform welcome and benign activities — such as search engine crawlers like Googlebot and...