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Android smartphones are at risk of malicious loan apps that were downloaded several million times from the Google Play store, according to details shared by security researchers. As many as 18 apps identified as 'SpyLoan' malware were spotted on the store over the course of this year. These predatory lending apps are designed to collect vast amounts of information from a user's device when they borrow money— these are later used to blackmail and extort them into repaying the sum with high interest amounts.ESET researchers…

Elon Musk said that an advertising boycott over his posts that he said were misperceived as antisemitic would kill his social-media platform X.  “If somebody’s going to try to blackmail me with advertising, blackmail me with money. Go f—- yourself,” Musk said during an interview at the New York Times’ DealBook Summit on Wednesday. Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 Elon Musk said that an advertising boycott over his posts that he said were misperceived as…

An online nude-photo scam is ensnaring thousands of teen boys and causing emotional trauma.Scammers posing as teen girls befriend boys online, share nude photos of a girl and then ask for nude photos in return. Once the boy reciprocates, the schemer demands money be sent by a peer-to-peer payment app and threatens to share the boy’s photos with his social-media followers if he doesn’t pay.Copyright ©2023Dow Jones & Company, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 87990cbe856818d5eddac44c7b1cdeb8 An online nude-photo scam is…

Do you know that you may be easily spied on and recorded through your phone camera? After a recent cyberattack, experts have warned Android users about cybercriminals spying on them by hacking their phone cameras. These cybercriminals are hacking the devices and infecting them with malware to record user videos, and spy and blackmail them, the Sun reports.The term hacking and infecting devices are commonly called "camfecting". According to Adrianus Warmenhoven, a cybersecurity expert at NordVPN, “Camfecting is not hard…

Ransomware gang BlackCat has taken credit for a February breach wherein Reddit was the victim of a phishing attack. The gang, which says it has 80 gigabytes of company data, initially asked for $4.5 million in hush money to not leak the data but has since added a new demand: That Reddit reverse its controversial application programming interface (API) pricing policy changes that mean many of the site’s third-party app makers won’t be able to afford keeping their apps alive on the platform (via BleepingComputer).…

Consumers already bristling at higher prices question where the money goes when interaction with an employee was nonexistent. Consumers already bristling at higher prices question where the money goes when interaction with an employee was nonexistent. FOLLOW US ON GOOGLE NEWS Read original article here Denial of responsibility! Techno Blender is an automatic aggregator of the all world’s media. In each content, the hyperlink to the primary source is specified. All trademarks belong to their rightful owners,…

WASHINGTON—U.S. authorities seized the servers of the notorious Hive ransomware group after entering its networks and capturing keys to decrypt its software, the Justice Department said on Thursday, calling its effort a “21st-century cyber stakeout.”The group linked to Hive ransomware is widely seen by authorities and cybersecurity experts as one of the most prolific and dangerous cybercriminal actors in recent years. They have been linked to attacks on more than 1,500 victims including hospitals and schools—and have…

WASHINGTON—The Biden administration on Friday said it would investigate recent hacks linked to an extortion-focused hacking collective known as Lapsus$ that over the past year has victimized some of the world’s biggest technology companies and broken into critical infrastructure systems.The U.S. Cyber Safety Review Board, a panel of experts from various government agencies and the private sector, will examine the group’s recent high-profile hacks, which researchers say have sometimes included extortion demands but at…

The market for cyber insurance has begun to stabilize after a surge in ransomware attacks in recent years propelled a steep rise in premiums, observers say.Cyber insurance can pay ransoms to hackers who lock company technology systems, or it can help offset the cost of responding to data breaches. Now, the premium increases of recent years seem to be slowing, if not halting entirely, as insurers get better at evaluating risks, new market entrants begin offering coverage, and supply and demand assert themselves. “Things…

A former Sky worker has been sentenced to two years and four months in jail. Imoudu Chaba, a 37-year-old man from Manchester, worked at Sky as a customer service representative in Manchester. After months of barely scraping by, Chaba believed he had been fired from the organisation unfairly. The 37-year-old man believed he could transfer over £40,000 worth of Bitcoin by using extortion to get a senior Sky employee to do something for him. He intended to accomplish this by breaking into the hard drive of a former…