Buying TikTok followers can expose users to scams and account theft
Buying TikTok followers, likes, or views could do more than inflate engagement metrics. According to Malwarebytes, many services selling social media growth operate through …
Fake Spotify Premium tutorials on TikTok and Instagram Reels spread malware
Cybercriminals are using TikTok and Instagram Reels videos to spread Vidar, an infostealer malware, through fake downloads for popular paid software, according to …
AgentGG: Open-source agentic SAST scanner
Static analysis tools have spent years matching source code against known-bad patterns and handing engineers long lists of candidate issues to triage by hand. AgentGG …
TikTok under EU pressure to change its addictive algorithm
The European Commission has issued preliminary findings that say TikTok breaches the Digital Services Act due to its addictive design. The Commission opened a formal …
TikTok videos + ClickFix tactic = Malware infection
Malware peddlers are using TikTok videos and the ClickFix tactic to trick users into installing infostealer malware on their computers, Trend Micro researchers have warned. …
Meta plans to prevent disinformation and AI-generated content from influencing voters
Meta, the company that owns some of the biggest social networks in use today, has explained how it means to tackle disinformation related to the upcoming EU Parliament …
How Ducktail capitalizes on compromised business, ad accounts
Quite some money can be made from selling compromised business and ad accounts on social media platforms, and the Ducktail threat actor has specialized in just that. “We …
Photos: Infosecurity Europe 2023
Infosecurity Europe 2023 is taking place at ExCeL London from 20-22 June 2023 and Help Net Security is on site. The second gallery is available here. Here’s a closer …
HackerOne updates Internet Bug Bounty program to improve the security of open source software
HackerOne announced the next evolution of the Internet Bug Bounty (IBB) program at the company’s annual Security conference. The IBB’s mission is to secure open source by …
Enterprise networks vulnerable to 20-year-old exploits
Popular preconceptions of enterprise security and network usage are often inaccurate, according to Cato Networks. While exotic attacks and nation-states such as Russia and …
DataStax K8ssandra now available on any Kubernetes environment
DataStax announced that K8ssandra, an open-source distribution of Apache Cassandra on Kubernetes, is available on any Kubernetes environment including distro-specific …
Fleeceware apps extract hundreds of dollars per year from their users through subscription services
Avast has discovered more than 200 new fleeceware applications on the Apple App Store and the Google PlayStore. The apps have been downloaded approximately one billion times …
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