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Similar spot checks of Twitch’s less popular competitors, YouTube Gaming and Facebook Gaming, turned up far fewer instances of apparent children livestreaming. To stream on YouTube via mobile, a user must have more than 1,000 followers. Facebook Live doesn’t have a comparable restriction, but its live channel discovery sections for Facebook Gaming and Facebook Live appear more curated or moderated than Twitch’s.…
The story of PlusToken, one of the largest scams in the cryptocurrency industry, takes another twist as dozens of major suspects have been arrested.
As many as 27 core PlusToken team members have been arrested by Chinese police, according to a July 30 report by local industry publication ChainNews.…
Chip-based credit and debit cards are designed to make it infeasible for skimming devices or malware to clone your card when you pay for something by dipping the chip instead of swiping the stripe. But a recent series of malware attacks on U.S.-based merchants suggest thieves are exploiting weaknesses in how certain financial institutions have implemented the technology to sidestep key chip card security features and effectively create usable, counterfeit cards.…
Kelowna RCMP raided a Black Mountain home and the Duke & Duchess clothing store in downtown Kelowna (British Columbia) in August 2017, the result of an 11-month investigation that monitored opioid trafficking on the dark web.
Two months later, police revealed to the public that they had confiscated 120 grams of illicit fentanyl or carfentanil and said the drugs were bound for the cities of Canada, America, Europe and Australia.…
A Canadian dark web fentanyl vendor has been arrested and sentenced to eleven years (132 months) of imprisonment. The accused has been pleaded guilty of selling fentanyl on the darknet markets, AlphaBay and Dream.
The defendant has been identified to be James Nelson, 38 years old and a resident of Kelowna, Canada.…
A New Zealand man hailing from Auckland has admitted on an attempt to purchase a child from the dark web. The accused called himself “Kiwipedo” on the dark web and has admitted that he planned to buy the child against $15,000 owing to sexual abuse, He has also hold accused of possession of 417 objectionable images just when the trial was about to close.…
Popular video conferencing app Zoom recently fixed a new security flaw that could have allowed potential attackers to crack the numeric passcode used to secure private meetings on the platform and snoop on participants.
Zoom meetings are by default protected by a six-digit numeric password, but according to Tom Anthony, VP Product at SearchPilot who identified the issue, the lack of rate limiting enabled “an attacker to attempt all 1 million passwords in a matter of minutes and gain access to other people’s private (password protected) Zoom meetings.”
It’s worth noting that Zoom began requiring a passcode for all meetings back in April as a preventive measure to combat Zoom-bombing attacks, which refers to the act of disrupting and hijacking Zoom meetings uninvited to share obscene and racist content.…
Cybersecurity firms have identified an exponential rise in crypto-related scams in Russia during the first half of 2020.
Researchers identified 23,000 sites involved with crypto scams that are still online and targeting new victims. According to Kommersant, which cited research from Kaspersky Labs, the problem is three times greater than during the same period last year.…
Over the past few years, online disinformation has taken evolutionary leaps forward, with the Internet Research Agency pumping out artificial outrage on social media and hackers leaking documents—both real and fabricated—to suit their narrative. More recently, Eastern Europe has faced a broad campaign that takes fake news ops to yet another level: hacking legitimate news sites to plant fake stories, then hurriedly amplifying them on social media before they’re taken down.…
Back in February, Digital Shadows published a blog looking at the dark web travel industry. We described how cybercriminals active on dark web forums and marketplaces have, for years, been peddling heavily discounted flight tickets and hotel rooms, selling airline-specific accounts with associated air miles, and sharing tutorials and top tips for conducting travel-related fraud. …