Guardio Labs details a campaign that uses fake and compromised Facebook accounts to send 100K+ Messenger phishing messages per week, targeting business accounts
Botnet of Facebook Users Launch High-Intent Messenger Phishing Attack on Business Accounts Anthony Spadafora / Tom's Guide : Hackers are using Facebook Messenger to spread password-stealing malware — ...
An excerpt from the book Number Go Up traces “wrong number” texts to Chinese gangs in Cambodia and Myanmar using forced labor to run pig butchering Tether scams
of human trafficking. Thousands of people across Southeast Asia are lured with the promise of good jobs, then trapped and forced to scam. Zeke Faux / @zekefaux : It turns out people really do lose mil...
A book excerpt traces “wrong number” texts to Chinese gangs in Cambodia and Myanmar that use forced labor to run pig butchering scams involving Tether
The mysterious WhatsApp message arrived one night in August 2022, while I was out at a bar with a friend: “Hi David, I'm Vicky Ho don't you remember me?” X: @bw , @bw , @joelwebershow , @yueqi_yang , ...
Investigation sheds light on Force 47, the Vietnamese army's online information warfare unit behind pro-state Facebook Groups that aim to correct “wrong views”
In Vietnam, where the state is fighting a fierce online battle against political dissent, social media “influencers” … Tweets: @samfbiddle , @samfbiddle , @tostevinm , and @timothyjgraham Tweets: Sam ...
Profile of 23-year-old Nick Lim, who founded Vancouver-based VanwaTech, a hosting provider for white supremacist websites like Daily Stormer and 8kun
.' ” https://www.bloomberg.com/... Aly-Khan Satchu / @alykhansatchu : “My take on Trump is that he is an inevitable creation of this unreal normal world,” Adam Curtis says The Spinning Top https://ric...
Facebook identifies individuals behind APT32 and suspends their accounts, linking one of the most active state-sponsored hacking groups to an IT firm in Vietnam
one operating in Vietnam, and the other in Bangladesh. https://about.fb.com/... Alon Gal / @underthebreach : Idk if Facebook made the right move by doxxing APT32 publicly prior to any arrests, nor wit...
Investigation details how a hacking group called OceanLotus has been spying on Vietnamese opposition members and dissidents for years, including in Germany
BR24 : Tweets: @campuscodi , @snlyngaas , @sienaanstis , and @hatr Tweets: Catalin Cimpanu / @campuscodi : This was, by far, the best cybersecurity article published last week. It's a long read but w...
Story of Vietnamese hacker “Hieupc”, who was earning $125K/month running a bustling identity theft service, and was recently released from prison
At the height of his cybercriminal career, the hacker known as “Hieupc” was earning $125,000 a month running a bustling identity theft service … Tweets: @reybango , @briankrebs , @mattotcha , @dstrom ...
Vietnamese human rights groups, independent journalists question if Facebook is helping suppress dissent by removing content flagged by state-sponsored trolls
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FireEye report details links between Vietnamese government and years of hacks of foreign companies, dissidents, journalists, and other targets
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