identity theft
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The Feds Just Shut Down One of the Web’s Biggest Hacker Marketplaces
U.S. authorities have announced the shutdown of another enormous cybercrime hub amid an ongoing wide crackdown on illicit sites. The Justice Department said Tuesday that it had officially shuttered RaidForums, one of the largest dark web destinations for stolen data on the internet, and arrested its alleged operator.
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Move Over Global Disinformation Campaigns, Deepfakes Have a New Role: Corporate Spamming
Have you ever ignored a seemingly random LinkedIn solicitor and been left with a weird feeling that something about the profile just seemed…off? Well, it turns out, in some cases, those sales reps hounding you might not actually be human beings at all. Yes, AI-generated deepfakes have come for LinkedIn and they’d like to connect.
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Deepfakes Maybe Not Quite the Political Apocalypse We Feared, MIT Researchers Find
Ever since we’ve seen deepfakes cropping up across porn, e-commerce, and literal bank robberies, there’s always been concern that this same tech could be used to interfere with future elections. Well, according to one new study, that might be tougher than we thought. Researchers from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have put out a…
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Google Sent More Than 50,000 Warnings to Users Targeted by Government-Backed Hackers This Year
If the internet is a digital Wild West, it’s time to lock your doors and close your windows. While the amount of cyber attackers and activity alone is alarming, in this episode, the featured villain is a hacker group backed by the Iranian government.