North Korean IT Workers Are Being Exposed on a Massive Scale
The young developers are having the time of their lives. They pop open bottles of sparkling wine, eat steak dinners, play soccer together, and lounge…
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Google’s Advanced Protection for Vulnerable Users Comes to Android
With the rise of mercenary spyware and other targeted threats, tech giants like Apple, Google, and Microsoft have spent the last few years trying to…
Google Is Using On-Device AI to Spot Scam Texts and Investment Fraud
Digital scammers have never been so successful. Last year Americans lost $16.6 billion to online crimes, with almost 200,000 people reporting scams like phishing and…
An $8.4 Billion Chinese Hub for Crypto Crime Is Incorporated in Colorado
Those money laundering and scam-enabling services, however, are far from the only shady offerings found on Xinbi Guarantee’s market. Elliptic also found listings for surrogate…
Deepfakes, Scams, and the Age of Paranoia
As AI-driven fraud becomes increasingly common, more people feel the need to verify every interaction they have online. Source link
ICE’s Deportation Airline Hack Reveals Man ‘Disappeared’ to El Salvador
A United States Customs and Border Protection request for information this week revealed the agency’s plans to find vendors that can supply face recognition technology…
US Customs and Border Protection Plans to Photograph Everyone Exiting the US by Car
United States Customs and Border Protection plans to log every person leaving the country by vehicle by taking photos at border crossings of every passenger…
US Customs and Border Protection Quietly Revokes Protections for Pregnant Women and Infants
US Customs and Border Protection (CBP) has quietly rescinded several internal policies that were designed to protect some of the most vulnerable people in its…
Customs and Border Protection Confirms Its Use of Hacked Signal Clone TeleMessage
The United States Customs and Border Protection agency confirmed on Wednesday that it uses at least one communication app made by the service TeleMessage, which…
The Trump Administration Sure Is Having Trouble Keeping Its Comms Private
In the wake of SignalGate, a knockoff version of Signal used by a high-ranking member of the Trump Administration was hacked. Today on Uncanny Valley,…
The Signal Clone Mike Waltz Was Caught Using Has Direct Access to User Chats
The communication app TeleMessage Signal, used by at least one top Trump administration official to archive messages, has already reportedly suffered breaches that illustrate concerning…
Tulsi Gabbard Reused the Same Weak Password on Multiple Accounts for Years
Tulsi Gabbard, the director of national intelligence, used the same easily cracked password for different online accounts over a period of years, according to leaked…