3+ day, 1+ hour ago   (688+ words) Scammers are abusing Meta’s copyright-reporting system to suspend people’s Instagram accounts and then hold them for ransom, according to the BBC. Criminals file fake copyright complaints with Instagram, claiming that an account is using material it doesn’t own. Repeated complaints…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (790+ words) Remember when social media was filled only with posts from your friends, rather than what an algorithm decided you wanted to see? So does the Australian government, and it wants that internet back. Yesterday, the government released draft legislation outlining…...

6+ day, 25+ min ago   (1052+ words) In a recent post, we looked at reports of League of Legends players receiving suspicious friend requests shortly after matches. The accounts quickly steered the conversation toward Discord, where they promoted paid adult-content pages. At the time, one unanswered question…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (351+ words) Anthropic has warned some Claude users that criminals are using information stealers to take over their accounts. Rather than guessing passwords or intercepting two-factor authentication (2FA) codes, the attackers steal the browser sessions that prove a user is already logged in....

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (1242+ words) We’ve seen scam sites built around Grand Theft Auto VI (GTA 6) targeting visitors in three different ways this year. In June, we looked at sites selling GTA 6 “early access” for hundreds of dollars in cryptocurrency. You paid, got nothing, and…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (641+ words) Someone leaked footage of the upcoming game Grand Theft Auto (GTA) 6 this month, and the game’s publisher badly wants to know who. It’s after a range of data about members of three Discord servers going back to June 1 this year…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1400+ words) GTA 6 footage really has leaked online, and Rockstar has an official Extended Look coming to Netflix on August 27. But cybercriminals are exploiting the hype with fake Rockstar sites that lead visitors to password-stealing malware. We identified a network of sites…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (1422+ words) A wave of websites is offering to check whether your antivirus is working. They call themselves SysScan, carry Microsoft branding, and all reach the same conclusion: Your computer has serious problems, and the cause is the antivirus software you installed....

3+ week, 3+ day ago   (780+ words) A Google spokesperson announced on Reddit that it has started rolling out the first version of its Advanced Flow, designed to make installing apps from unverified developers safer. Let us explain what sideloading is, why Google Play is not 100% safe,…...

3+ week, 5+ day ago   (751+ words) The next time you type something sensitive into a Google Doc—or any other online tool with a sharing feature—be careful about the permissions you grant. Speaking with The Register, the founder of QR generation service Pageloot said that…...