Since its release in November 2022, OpenAI’s chatbot ChatGPT has become all the rage. Unfortunately, as a new report by Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42 shows, it has also become a hot target for scammers. As part of their investigation, Unit 42 researchers found registrations of ChatGPT and OpenAI domain names have skyrocketed. While many […]
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The Twitter account of right-wing political commentator Matt Walsh appeared to be hacked on Tuesday evening. While in the hands of apparent hackers, Walsh’s account made several offensive tweets about other right-wing figures, including Ben Shapiro and Andrew Tate. While the tweets have since been deleted, many are still visible via the Internet Archive’s Way
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Yesterday beloved children’s musician Raffi Cavoukian, best known for his song “Baby Beluga,” received an intimidating direct message (DM) from a verified Twitter account. The message claimed, “Your Twitter account verification badge will be permanently suspended because your account uses images that violate our copyrights.” It also included a link to an appeal form, should
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Yesterday Elon Musk unveiled his latest attempt to monetize Twitter: paywalling SMS-based two-factor authentication (2FA). Per Twitter’s blog post, “accounts with text message 2FA still enabled will have it disabled” on March 20th, unless they are a Twitter Blue subscriber. Twitter’s blog post emphasized SMS-based 2FA’s security problems as the reason behind the change. However,
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Last week, Namecheap’s official email accounts were used to send phishing emails to the domain registrar’s customers. One such message asked recipients to pay a fee so DHL could deliver their parcel. Another instructed recipients to submit personal information to stop their MetaMask accounts from being closed. Fortunately, sharp-eyed users noticed something amiss when they
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Online discussion forum Reddit reported on Thursday that its systems had been breached following a sophisticated phishing attack. In the breach notification, Reddit CTO Christopher Slowe, aka KeyserSosa, explained that the hacker “sent out plausible-sounding prompts pointing employees to a website that cloned the behavior of [Reddit’s] intranet gateway, in an attempt to steal credentials
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T-Mobile has yet again suffered a data breach, this time affecting 37 million customers. The company reported in a press release that criminals pilfered customer names, addresses, email addresses, dates of birth and account numbers by abusing a piece of software called an API that allows computer programs to talk to each other. T-Mobile emphasized
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Unless you use an ad blocker, chances are the top results you see in a Google search are ads. For example, the top four results that appear when I search for “malware removal” are all ads. Worse, I have to scroll down to get to the real search results! While Google gives these ads a
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Private information from over 200 million Twitter users has been published on a popular hacking forum for anyone to download. The data includes users’ email addresses and public information, such as account names and handles. The data was likely obtained in 2021 after bad actors exploited a vulnerability in Twitter’s software. The flaw meant they
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