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1. Emotet malware campaign impersonates the IRS for 2022 tax season

   By Karlston, March 16, 2022   

   • emotet
   • phishing
   • 0 comments
   • 1,450 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • March 16, 2022

2. EmoCheck now detects new 64-bit versions of Emotet malware

   By Karlston, April 28, 2022
   • 0 comments
   • 1,155 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • April 28, 2022

3. How to avoid 'rug pulls,' the latest cryptocurrency scam

   By aum, May 11, 2022
   • 0 comments
   • 1,066 views
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   • Added by aum
   • May 11, 2022

4. The Week in Ransomware - August 19th 2022 - Evolving extortion tactics

   By Karlston, August 20, 2022   

   • ransomware
   • 0 comments
   • 1,065 views
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   • Added by Karlston
   • August 20, 2022

5. Microsoft: Iranian hackers encrypt Windows systems using BitLocker

   By alf9872000, September 9, 2022
   • 0 comments
   • 1,076 views
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   • Added by alf9872000
   • September 9, 2022

6. New Android malware 'RatMilad' can steal your data, record audio

   By alf9872000, October 5, 2022
   • 0 comments
   • 974 views
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   • Added by alf9872000
   • October 5, 2022

7. BlackByte ransomware uses new data theft tool for double-extortion

   By alf9872000, October 21, 2022
   • 0 comments
   • 1,152 views
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   • Added by alf9872000
   • October 21, 2022

8. ChatGPT is used by cybercriminals to write better phishing emails

   By alf9872000, February 4, 2023
   • 0 comments
   • 1,278 views
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   • Added by alf9872000
   • February 4, 2023

9. FBI: Business email compromise tactics used to defraud U.S. vendors

   By alf9872000, March 26, 2023
   • 0 comments
   • 1,080 views
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   • Added by alf9872000
   • March 26, 2023

10. A Zero-Day Exploit In The Linux Kernel

    By aum, June 25, 2023
    • 0 comments
    • 1,263 views
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    • Added by aum
    • June 25, 2023

11. PayPal files patent for new method to detect stolen cookies

    By Karlston, February 25, 2024   

    • paypal
    • cookies
    • 0 comments
    • 1,435 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • February 25, 2024

12. Five reasons antivirus has gotten worse

    By alf9872000, March 12, 2024
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    • 1,444 views
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    • Added by alf9872000
    • March 12, 2024

13. VPN by Google One is shutting down on June 20

    By Karlston, May 16, 2024   

    • google
    • vpn
    • (and 1 more)

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      • google
      • vpn
      • shutdown
    • 0 comments
    • 1,085 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • May 16, 2024

14. Elon Musk is silently training his Grok AI on your X data, but you can stop him

    By Karlston, July 27, 2024   

    • twitter/x
    • 3 comments
    • 1,744 views
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    • Comment by Akaneharuka
    • July 28, 2024

15. FYI: Google ads are coming to AI Mode, testing started

    By Karlston, May 22, 2025   

    • google
    • ai mode
    • (and 1 more)

      Tagged with:

      • google
      • ai mode
      • ads
    • 0 comments
    • 868 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • May 22, 2025

16. Microsoft secretly tracked a child's device with cookies in Austria, now it has four weeks to comply: "Tracking minors clearly isn't privacy-friendly."

    By Karlston, January 28   

    • microsoft
    • privacy
    • 1 comment
    • 240 views
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    • Comment by Tzcon
    • January 28

17. US recovers most of Colonial Pipeline's $4.4M ransomware payment

    By Karlston, June 7, 2021   

    • ransomware
    • 0 comments
    • 1,412 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • June 7, 2021

18. A Critical Random Number Generator Flaw Affects Billions of IoT Devices

    By aum, August 9, 2021
    • 0 comments
    • 1,250 views
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    • Added by aum
    • August 9, 2021

19. Hackers steal even more Social Security numbers. How should you protect yourself?

    By aum, August 23, 2021
    • 0 comments
    • 1,216 views
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    • Added by aum
    • August 23, 2021

20. AV-TEST confirms Windows Defender is amongst the very finest antiviruses you get in 2021

    By aum, November 25, 2021
    • 1 comment
    • 1,466 views
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    • Comment by sirri
    • November 26, 2021

21. The hacker-for-hire industry is now too big to fail

    By aum, December 31, 2021
    • 0 comments
    • 1,369 views
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    • Added by aum
    • December 31, 2021

22. Microsoft starts killing off WMIC in Windows, will thwart attacks

    By Karlston, February 11, 2022
    • 0 comments
    • 1,174 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • February 11, 2022

23. Hundreds of GoDaddy-hosted sites backdoored in a single day

    By Karlston, March 16, 2022   

    • godaddy
    • 0 comments
    • 1,095 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • March 16, 2022

24. WordPress sites hacked with fake Cloudflare DDoS alerts pushing malware

    By Karlston, August 20, 2022   

    • wordpress
    • 0 comments
    • 1,450 views
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    • Added by Karlston
    • August 20, 2022

25. Ukraine takes down cybercrime group hitting crypto fraud victims

    By alf9872000, August 31, 2022
    • 0 comments
    • 1,071 views
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    • Added by alf9872000
    • August 31, 2022