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Cops Are Spying on People Who Criticize AI Data Centers Online
Americans speaking out against artificial intelligence data centers on social media are falling under police surveillance, a confidential law enforcement bulletin obtained by The Intercept reveals. A fusion center in Philadelphia combed through spicy internet comments from AI critics and concluded there is a growing risk of physical violence against data centers from “domestic violent…
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New threat actor JINX-0164 targets crypto firms with macOS malware
The campaign, active since mid-2025, uses recruitment-themed social engineering to lure developers into downloading a Python-based infostealer and remote access trojan named AUDIOFIX.
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China Wants Its Companies to Embrace AI—Without Firing Workers
As a backlash against AI builds in the U.S. and elsewhere, China is acting to stave off social and economic disruption.
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Hackers are knocking on office doors pretending to be IT staff
The Silent Ransom Group (SRG) is targeting law firms using social engineering techniques and an unusual tactic for cybercriminals: showing up at victims’ offices in person while posing as IT staff, the FBI warns. The group, also known as Luna Moth, Chatty Spider, and UNC3753, has been active since at least 2022 and has targeted…
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The new economics of fraud: Cheaper, faster, more convincing
Scams have become one of the fastest-growing consumer risks, driven by AI-enabled impersonation, social engineering, and sophisticated attack methods, according to Visa’s Spring 2026 Biannual Threats Report. Criminals redirect efforts toward trust and third parties Fraud involves behavioral manipulation, fragmented ecosystems, and faster attack cycles that use AI to pressure people into authorizing payments themselves.…
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10 Top OSINT Tools Every Investigator Should Know in 2026
Modern OSINT platforms rely more on AI and automation, while older social tracking methods keep losing access due to privacy and API restrictions.
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AI coding is fueling a secrets-sprawl crisis few CISOs are containing
When Matt Schlicht built Moltbook, the social network where AI agents talk to one another, he didn’t write the code himself. He “just had a vision,” and vibe-coded it. The social network launched on Jan. 28, 2026, and within days, security researchers started to see serious security flaws. Experts at cloud security company Wiz and,…
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KongTuke hackers now use Microsoft Teams for corporate breaches
Initial access broker KongTuke has moved to Microsoft Teams for social engineering attacks, taking as little as five minutes to gain persistent access to corporate networks. […]
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Over 70% of organizations hit by identity breaches
Attackers rely on stolen credentials, compromised service accounts, and social engineering attacks targeting employees, according to Sophos’ The State of Identity Security 2026 survey. What do you estimate to be the overall cost to your organization to rectify the identity breach? Base: organization could not stop the security breach. n=510. (Source: Sophos) Identity attack trends…
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Signal responds to phishing attacks with new in-app security warnings
Signal is adding new protections for users following recent phishing and social engineering attacks. In March, the FBI and CISA issued a warning stating that Signal had become a primary target of Russian intelligence-linked hackers. Dutch and German security authorities were among the first to identify phishing campaigns targeting Signal users. The scheme centered on…
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ClickFix finds a backup plan in PySoxy proxy chains
ClickFix, a one-shot social engineering technique that tricks victims into executing malicious workflows disguised as fixes to technical issues in their systems, has got a persistence upgrade. In a one-off instance, ReliaQuest researchers have spotted an intrusion chain using scheduled tasks, PowerShell-based command-and-control (C2), and a unique abuse of the decade-old open-source proxy tool PySoxy.…
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Patch Tuesday, May 2026 Edition
Artificial intelligence platforms may be just as susceptible to social engineering as human beings, but they are proving remarkably good at finding security vulnerabilities in human-made computer code. That reality is on full display this month with some of the more widely-used software makers — including Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla and Oracle — fixing near…
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Top Video Downloaders in 2026: Why Wondershare UniConverter Remains a Strong Choice
As video content continues to dominate entertainment, education, and social media platforms, more users are searching for reliable…
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The scam economy has found its AI upgrade
Scam attempts continue to reach consumers via email, text messages, social media, online advertising, and phone calls. The volume of exposure has remained stable over the past year, with more than half of consumers encountering scam attempts at least monthly, according to the F-Secure Scam Intelligence & Impacts Report 2026. Most common channels for scam…
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Fake SSA Emails Drive Venomous#Helper Phishing Campaign
Venomous#Helper attackers impersonate the US Social Security Administration to deploy signed RMM software and maintain persistent access across US networks
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SEC Settles Lawsuit Against Elon Musk Over Twitter Share Purchases
The case had alleged that Musk failed to timely disclose his buildup of ownership in the social media platform he renamed X.
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DigiCert breached via malicious screensaver file
A targeted social engineering attack against DigiCert’s support channel led to the compromise of internal systems and the unauthorized issuance of EV Code Signing certificates. DigiCert is a global Certificate Authority (CA) providing digital trust services, specializing in TLS/SSL certificates, PKI management, and IoT security. According to DigiCert’s incident report, a threat actor contacted the…
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The most dangerous AI problem isn’t risk, it’s resistance – so SAS VP Reggie Townsend wants to make governance irresistible
SAS VP of AI ethics, governance, and social impact Reggie Townsend took to the stage at SAS Innovate 2026 today, but he didn’t start by speaking about technology. He started with culture. He put to the audience why governance exists, despite that many today see it as friction. That’s a problem he determined himself to…
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FTC: Americans lost over $2.1 billion to social media scams in 2025
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned of a massive increase in losses from social media scams since 2020, exceeding $2.1 billion in 2025. […]
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Meta, Roblox and TikTok claim to UK Parliament that their platforms are are not additive to children and that Australian under 16 ban will fail
The claim from Meta, Roblox and TikTok that Australia’s under-16 social media ban is “not really enforceable” has now moved from industry talking point to parliamentary record, following testimony before the UK’s Education Committee in April. But beneath the predictable pushback from Meta, TikTok and Roblox lies a more complex—and more uncomfortable—reality for policymakers on…
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Threat actor uses Microsoft Teams to deploy new “Snow” malware
A threat group tracked as UNC6692 uses social engineering to deploy a new “Snow” malware set that includes a browser extension, a tunneler, and a backdoor. […]
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Toxic Combinations: When Cross-App Permissions Stack into Risk
On January 31, 2026, researchers disclosed that Moltbook, a social network built for AI agents, had left its database wide open, exposing 35,000 email addresses and 1.5 million agent API tokens across 770,000 active agents. The more worrying part sat inside the private messages. Some of those conversations held plaintext third-party credentials, including OpenAI API…
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Social media bans might steer kids into riskier corners of the internet
Governments are moving to block children under 16 from social media in the name of safety. But once these measures move from policy to practice, they raise a harder question: what happens when protecting kids requires collecting more data than ever before and may put them at greater risk? Age checks spark debate over privacy…
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Obsidian Plugin Abuse Delivers PHANTOMPULSE RAT in Targeted Finance, Crypto Attacks
A “novel” social engineering campaign has been observed abusing Obsidian, a cross-platform note-taking application, as an initial access vector to distribute a previously undocumented Windows remote access trojan called PHANTOMPULSE in attacks targeting individuals in the financial and cryptocurrency sectors. Dubbed REF6598 by Elastic Security Labs, the activity has been found to leverage
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Wyden warns Social Security chief: Trump’s voter database is ‘blatant voter suppression’
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., warned Social Security Administration chief Frank Bisignano that any follow-through on President Donald Trump’s executive order creating a new database of U.S. voters using agency data would be viewed by Democrats as a conscious choice on the part of SSA officials to participate in “blatant voter suppression.” “Facilitating Donald Trump’s directive…
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NCSC Issues Security Alert Over Hackers Targeting WhatsApp and Signal Accounts
The UK’s cybersecurity agency offered advice to “high-risk’ individuals” on how to protect against social engineering and cyber-attacks
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Venom Stealer MaaS Platform Commoditizes ClickFix Attacks
A new service on the cybercrime market provides automated capabilities to create persistent information-stealing social engineering attacks.
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New Venom Stealer MaaS Platform Automates Continuous Data Theft
Venom Stealer malware-as-a-service automates ClickFix social engineering, credential and crypto exfiltration
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Hybrid Vishing Campaigns Abuse Online Services to Evade Anti-Spam Filters
Phone-based fraud never went away. It evolved. Vishing, or voice phishing, is a social engineering technique that uses phone calls to extract money or sensitive information from victims. A few years ago, these attacks typically arrived as unsolicited calls from criminals impersonating the IRS, the FBI, or Microsoft support. The approach was simple and high…
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DeepLoad Malware Uses ClickFix and WMI Persistence to Steal Browser Credentials
A new campaign has leveraged the ClickFix social engineering tactic as a way to distribute a previously undocumented malware loader referred to as DeepLoad. “It likely uses AI-assisted obfuscation and process injection to evade static scanning, while credential theft starts immediately and captures passwords and sessions even if the primary loader is blocked,” ReliaQuest researchers…
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Playnance Introduces Participation-First Model for Social Gaming with New Protocol Launch
Playnance launches social gaming protocol powered by GCOIN, enabling user participation in ecosystem value, transparency, and shared digital growth.
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The phone call is the new phishing email
Voice-based phishing, a form of social engineering where attackers call employees or IT help desks under false pretenses in an attempt to gain access to victim networks, surged in 2025, Mandiant said Monday in its annual M-Trends report. These points of intrusion, which have been a hallmark of attacks attributed to members of the cybercrime…
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Is Gmail A Social Media? [Here’s The ANSWER]
There has been an unending debate regarding the media status of Gmail. Is Gmail a social media? A lot of internet users ask the question – is it social media or just another messaging platform? You will find out in this article. Social media has made the world a global village where you can connect…
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Meta, TikTok Steal Users’ Sensitive PII When They Click on Ads
Tracking pixels let social media companies spy on their own customers when they click over to advertiser sites, gleaning credit card info, currency type, and more.
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LeakNet Ransomware Uses ClickFix via Hacked Sites, Deploys Deno In-Memory Loader
The ransomware operation known as LeakNet has adopted the ClickFix social engineering tactic delivered through compromised websites as an initial access method. The use of ClickFix, where users are tricked into manually running malicious commands to address non-existent errors, is a departure from relying on traditional methods for obtaining initial access, such as through stolen…
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Attackers Abuse LiveChat to Phish Credit Card, Personal Data
A social engineering campaign impersonating PayPal and Amazon uses customer support interactions to acquire sensitive info.
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ClickFix techniques evolve in new infostealer campaigns
Cybercriminals are combining compromised websites with increasingly sophisticated ClickFix social engineering lures to deliver new infostealer malware, with one campaign alone weaponizing more than 250 WordPress sites across 12 countries. The campaign leads to stealthy in-memory payloads, while a separate attack detected by Microsoft targets Windows Terminal for payload execution instead of the traditional Run…
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Social media impersonation: The brand threat DMARC can’t see
Social media is often a visibility gap for security teams. Learn how to protect against impersonation and defend this platform.
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Teams Social Engineering Campaign Drops A0Backdoor Malware
Microsoft Teams impersonation and social engineering tactics are being used in an ongoing campaign to deliver a stealthy malware payload known as A0Backdoor. Researchers at BlueVoyant report that the operation combines social engineering techniques, malicious installers, and covert command-and-control (C2) communications to gain persistent access within targeted networks. “The malware’s loader exhibits anti-sandbox evasion, and…
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Twitter suspended 800 million accounts last year – so why does manipulation remain so rampant?
Elon Musk’s social media site says it suspended 800 million accounts in a year for spam and manipulation – but with state-backed campaigns still flooding the platform, the real question is how many fake accounts remain. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
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There’s only one kind of tool security teams should be building with AI
I am not sure what I’ve been doing on social media over the past year (particularly on LinkedIn), but these days my feed is filled with posts of security people who build some very cool tools. There’s so much excitement that with LLMs, anyone can now be a product developer, which means that security teams…
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New Social Security Scam Emails Use Fake Tax Documents to Hijack PCs
A new phishing campaign is targeting thousands in the US by posing as the Social Security Administration. Learn how scammers use fake 2025/2026 tax statements and Datto RMM software to hijack computers and steal data, as shared with Hackread.com
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Fake Claude Code install guides push infostealers in InstallFix attacks
Threat actors are employing a new variation of the ClickFix social engineering technique called InstallFix to convince users into running malicious commands under the pretext of installing legitimate command line interface (CLI) tools. […]
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Microsoft Reveals ClickFix Campaign Using Windows Terminal to Deploy Lumma Stealer
Microsoft on Thursday disclosed details of a new widespread ClickFix social engineering campaign that has leveraged the Windows Terminal app as a way to activate a sophisticated attack chain and deploy the Lumma Stealer malware. The activity, observed in February 2026, makes use of the terminal emulator program instead of instructing users to launch the…
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Facebook accounts unavailable in worldwide outage
Social media giant Facebook is currently experiencing a massive worldwide outage, preventing users from accessing their accounts. […]
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Alabama Sextortion Case Involved Hundreds of Victims
A 22-year-old Alabama man has pleaded guilty to federal charges after hijacking the social media accounts of hundreds of young women and extorting them with stolen intimate images. Between 2022 and 2025, Jamarcus Mosley used impersonation tactics to seize control of victims’ Snapchat and Instagram accounts, then threatened to publish private photos unless they complied…
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Anthropic won’t kill cyber, but it will kill some companies
Over the past several weeks, social media has been exploding with predictions that “cyber is dead”. It doesn’t take much insight to jump on that bandwagon, as Anthropic’s announcement of Claude Code Security indeed sent the cybersecurity public market into turmoil, with some companies losing as much as 20% of their market cap. Contrary to…
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Social Media Integration For Pest Control Websites: How To Drive More Leads
You want your pest control business to thrive. Social media can help you do that. By integrating social media into your pest control website, you connect with potential customers.
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North Korean Lazarus Group Adopts Medusa Ransomware in Global Attacks
Lazarus Group is now using Medusa ransomware in attacks on healthcare and social services, signaling a move toward profit-focused cybercrime.
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Is Poshmark safe? How to buy and sell without getting scammed
Like any other marketplace, the social commerce platform has its share of red flags. It pays to know what to look for so you can shop or sell without headaches.
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ClickFix Campaign Uses Fake CAPTCHA Pages to Deliver StealC Malware on Windows
A new social engineering campaign is abusing fake CAPTCHA verification pages to trick Windows users into launching StealC information-stealing malware. The attack relies on compromised websites that display convincing Cloudflare-style security checks, prompting victims to manually execute malicious PowerShell commands under the guise of routine verification. “StealC exfiltrates browser credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, Steam accounts, Outlook…
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New ClickFix attack abuses nslookup to retrieve PowerShell payload via DNS
Threat actors are now abusing DNS queries as part of ClickFix social engineering attacks to deliver malware, making this the first known use of DNS as a channel in these campaigns. […]
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Microsoft Discloses DNS-Based ClickFix Attack Using Nslookup for Malware Staging
Microsoft has disclosed details of a new version of the ClickFix social engineering tactic in which the attackers trick unsuspecting users into running commands that carry out a Domain Name System (DNS) lookup to retrieve the next-stage payload. Specifically, the attack relies on using the “nslookup” (short for nameserver lookup) command to execute a custom…
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Fintech firm Figure disclosed data breach after employee phishing attack
Fintech firm Figure confirmed a data breach after hackers used social engineering to trick an employee and steal a limited number of files. Blockchain-based lending firm Figure confirmed a data breach after an employee fell victim to a social engineering attack. According to a company spokesperson, the incident allowed hackers to access and steal a…
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LummaStealer infections surge after CastleLoader malware campaigns
A surge in LummaStealer infections has been observed, driven by social engineering campaigns leveraging the ClickFix technique to deliver the CastleLoader malware. […]
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Social Media Platforms Earn Billions from Scam Ads
Revolut claims social media sites make £3.8bn annually from scam ads targeting European users
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Hootsuite vs Sprout Social
Learn more about Hootsuite vs Sprout Social & find out which social media management tool is right for your small business today.
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Hootsuite vs Sprout Social
Social media has become one of the most effective ways to market and sell your products and services whether you are a B2B or B2C business. From viral beauty products on TikTok to innovative tech solutions on LinkedIn, almost every product or service can benefit from social media promotion. However, social media management can be…