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Verified Twitter Accounts Hacked In $580k ‘Elon Musk’ Crypto Scam Threat actors are hacking verified Twitter accounts in an Elon Musk cryptocurrency giveaway scam that has recently become widely active. There is nothing new about cryptocurrency scams on Twitter, especially ones pretending to be giveaways from Elon Musk. In 2018, scammers raked in $180,000 using
Facebook Sues Makers Of Malicious Chrome Extensions For Scraping Data Facebook has taken legal action against the makers of malicious Chrome extensions used for scraping user-profiles and other information from Facebook’s website and from users’ systems without authorization. The two defendants developed and distributed the malicious browser extensions through the Chrome Web Store working under the
NSA Advises Companies To Avoid Third Party DNS Resolvers The US National Security Agency (NSA) says that companies should avoid using third party DNS resolvers to block threat actors’ DNS traffic eavesdropping and manipulation attempts and to block access to internal network information. NSA’s recommendation was made in a new advisory on the benefits (and
Office January Security Updates Fix Remote Code Execution Bugs Microsoft addresses important severity remote code execution vulnerabilities affecting multiple Office products in the January 2021 Office security updates released during this month’s Patch Tuesday. In total, this month the company released 26 security updates and 5 cumulative updates for 7 different products, fixing 11 vulnerabilities