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#cybercrime — Public Fediverse posts

Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #cybercrime, aggregated by home.social.

  1. Crime gangs use bots to lure young men in sextortion scams
    By Matthew Ward Agius

    Criminal gangs continue to have Australian men and boys in their sights as targets for sexual extortion, with more than $200,000 defrauded from victims in one state.

    abc.net.au/news/2026-09-06/cri

    #ScamsandFraud #CyberCrime #SexualOffences #YoungPeople #CrimePrevention #MatthewWardAgius

  2. #LLRX #CyberSecurity @bespacific
    @newsie.social

    Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 5, 2026

    Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: Your boss, tech companies and #police can read your #chatbot conversations; #EFF releases two part guide to online safety and #doxxing; T-Mobile Handed Journalist's Phone Records to Government; #FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses; and #Amazon launches verification tool to help consumers avoid scams.

    Posted in: #AI #cybercrime Cybersecurity, #ecommerce #Privacy #SocialMedia Media

    llrx.com/2026/09/pete-recommen

  3. #LLRX #CyberSecurity @bespacific
    @newsie.social

    Pete Recommends – Weekly highlights on cyber security issues, September 5, 2026

    Privacy and cybersecurity issues impact every aspect of our lives – home, work, travel, education, finance, health and medical records – to name but a few. On a weekly basis Pete Weiss highlights articles and information that focus on the increasingly complex and wide ranging ways technology is used to compromise and diminish our privacy and online security, often without our situational awareness. Five highlights from this week: Your boss, tech companies and #police can read your #chatbot conversations; #EFF releases two part guide to online safety and #doxxing; T-Mobile Handed Journalist's Phone Records to Government; #FBI Probes Service Selling 153M+ Drivers Licenses; and #Amazon launches verification tool to help consumers avoid scams.

    Posted in: #AI #cybercrime Cybersecurity, #ecommerce #Privacy #SocialMedia Media

    llrx.com/2026/09/pete-recommen

  4. BSI warnt nach Daten-Leak vor erhöhter Cyber-Bedrohung

    Nach einem großen Datenleak warnt das BSI vor gezielten Phishing-Angriffen und rät zu Wachsamkeit. Auch mit Blick auf die anstehenden Wahlen gibt es Sorgen.

    heise.de/news/BSI-warnt-nach-D

    #BSI #Cybercrime #IT #Journal #Ransomware #Security #news

  5. French police arrested an 18-year-old suspected ZeroBytes member over the theft of tax data linked to more than half a million people and businesses.

    Listen/Read: hackread.com/french-police-arr

    #Cybersecurity #Cybercrime #DataBreach #France #ZeroBytes

  6. Here we go again. As mentioned by @cR0w, Wolfram Research is on today's ransomware target list ransomware.live/id/V29sZnJhbSB

    Unfortunately, so is AP Capital Partners Limited (a global company) ransomware.live/id/QVAgQ0FQSVR

    There's more, including some new gangs ransomware.live/ #infosec #ransomware #cybercrime

  7. New.

    "The standout feature of this toolkit is its depth of integration with the target environment. The ted backdoor is compiled as part of the victim’s existing HAProxy version 2.8.12. It uses its native filter API, internal memory pools, event scheduler, and process management infrastructure to intercept traffic and hide from monitoring, while genuine load balancing traffic operates as expected."

    Rapid7: DPRK APTs: Ted backdoor and curlRAT target South Korean media and automotive sectors rapid7.com/blog/post/tr-dprk-a @Rapid7Official #infosec #cybercrime #threatresearch #Linux

  8. New.

    "The standout feature of this toolkit is its depth of integration with the target environment. The ted backdoor is compiled as part of the victim’s existing HAProxy version 2.8.12. It uses its native filter API, internal memory pools, event scheduler, and process management infrastructure to intercept traffic and hide from monitoring, while genuine load balancing traffic operates as expected."

    Rapid7: DPRK APTs: Ted backdoor and curlRAT target South Korean media and automotive sectors rapid7.com/blog/post/tr-dprk-a @Rapid7Official #infosec #cybercrime #threatresearch #Linux

  9. New.

    "The standout feature of this toolkit is its depth of integration with the target environment. The ted backdoor is compiled as part of the victim’s existing HAProxy version 2.8.12. It uses its native filter API, internal memory pools, event scheduler, and process management infrastructure to intercept traffic and hide from monitoring, while genuine load balancing traffic operates as expected."

    Rapid7: DPRK APTs: Ted backdoor and curlRAT target South Korean media and automotive sectors rapid7.com/blog/post/tr-dprk-a @Rapid7Official #infosec #cybercrime #threatresearch #Linux

  10. New.

    "The standout feature of this toolkit is its depth of integration with the target environment. The ted backdoor is compiled as part of the victim’s existing HAProxy version 2.8.12. It uses its native filter API, internal memory pools, event scheduler, and process management infrastructure to intercept traffic and hide from monitoring, while genuine load balancing traffic operates as expected."

    Rapid7: DPRK APTs: Ted backdoor and curlRAT target South Korean media and automotive sectors rapid7.com/blog/post/tr-dprk-a @Rapid7Official #infosec #cybercrime #threatresearch #Linux

  11. New.

    "The standout feature of this toolkit is its depth of integration with the target environment. The ted backdoor is compiled as part of the victim’s existing HAProxy version 2.8.12. It uses its native filter API, internal memory pools, event scheduler, and process management infrastructure to intercept traffic and hide from monitoring, while genuine load balancing traffic operates as expected."

    Rapid7: DPRK APTs: Ted backdoor and curlRAT target South Korean media and automotive sectors rapid7.com/blog/post/tr-dprk-a @Rapid7Official #infosec #cybercrime #threatresearch #Linux

  12. Authorities and CrowdStrike disrupted the Sality botnet after 23 years. More than 11 million unique IP addresses were linked to it during its lifetime.

    Listen/Read: hackread.com/sality-botnet-11-

    #CyberSecurity #Botnet #Sality #CyberCrime #DDoS