Meta Ramps Up Efforts to Disrupt Industrialized Scamming
… Meta said in February, for example, that it provided support for a Nigerian Police Force and UK National Crime Agency operation focused on disrupting an alleged scam center in Nigeria. …
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A Hacker Accidentally Broke Into the FBI’s Epstein Files
… In the first type of attack, hackers pretend to be Signal customer support, and ask for a verification code that a victim is sent from Signal, along with the victim’s PIN number. …
Taylor Lorenz’s Screen Time Is Almost 17 Hours a Day
… A lot of them are about scams. …
Redditors Are Using AI to Beat Obscene World Cup Ticket Prices
… Its get-in price dropped 25 percent over two weeks in May, to around $450—a relative snip. “People are sharing price drops as victories and encouraging others to wait,” he says. “It's become part community support, part figuring out ways to combat scalpers.” Fans are also using the platform to weed… …
Crypto-Funded Chinese Peptide Labs Are Booming
… Google rolled out a new Android feature this week aimed at the wave of AI-powered impersonation scams that help fraudsters spoof a familiar number and clone a person’s voice. …
Iranian Hackers Breached Kash Patel’s Email—but Not the FBI’s
… If the bill succeeds, all 5G mobile devices sold in Russia would need to support the homegrown encryption, known as NEA-7, to be able to connect to 5G. The bill includes a provision to phase out support for foreign algorithms by 2032—including the US’s AES, China’s ZUC, and the EU’s SNOW. …
Stop Trying to Unmask Satoshi Nakamoto
… But eventually we had to stop, and it was right before the election, and Trump had just pivoted to supporting crypto—because as recently as 2021, Donald Trump called Bitcoin a scam. …
Meta Is in Crisis, Google Search’s Makeover, and AI Gets Booed by Graduates
… Brian Barrett: And then even Meta has acknowledged that 10 percent-ish of its ad revenue comes from scams. They're like, "Yes, we know there are scams. …