If the SEC and Google owned security firm Mandiant can have their X (formerly Twitter) accounts hacked, so can you! That’s why in today’s post I’m going to walk you through how to secure your X account. In what follows, I’m going to assume you are still using a password for X. However, X is […]
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Ever seen a post from a social media influencer selling signed MacBook Pros? Priced at $600 each, you might be tempted to buy one. If you do, however, you’ll soon be disappointed because it’s a scam! How the scam works Here’s how the scam works. Fraudsters first hijack the X (formerly Twitter) account belonging to
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Social media is a scammer’s paradise. From sextortionists to crypto scammers to AI deep fakers, you’ll find them lurking on your favorite social media site. And while you’d hope social media companies would be working hard to boot scammers off their platforms, they seem to be struggling to do so. Here I’ll look at some
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Despite Musk’s claims to the contrary, Twitter is still full of scams. Crypto scams, in particular, are rampant on the platform. In this post, I’ll explain one I came across recently so you’ll be able to avoid it. You can also watch this one-minute video I made for a quick overview: The scam Tweets promoting
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The Bl00dy Ransomware Gang is exploiting a vulnerability in print management software PaperCut to target schools, according to an advisory by CISA. While PaperCut fixed this vulnerability in March, not all organizations applied the patch immediately. CISA recommends these organizations consider themselves compromised and look for malicious activity. The Bl00dy Ransomware Gang The Bl00dy Ransomware
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Twitter is failing to stop an account run by a ransomware gang from using its platform to distribute stolen information. Safe Not Scammed is not naming the gang or providing its account handle to avoid giving the criminals additional publicity. The ransomware account has posted links to stolen files it claims are from Socrates Academy
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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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According to a survey I ran, receiving a code via text is the most popular type of two-factor authentication (2FA). Security conscious Twitter users were therefore probably disappointed to learn that SMS 2FA will only be available to Twitter Blue subscribers from March 20th. However, non-Twitter Blue subscribers can still protect their accounts with 2FA
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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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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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