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INTERPOL Pushes for “Romance Baiting” to Replace “Pig Butchering” in Scam Discourse

INTERPOL Pushes for “Romance Baiting” to Replace “Pig Butchering” in Scam Discourse

Dec 18, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Fraud / Social engineering INTERPOL is calling for a linguistic shift that aims to put to an end to the term “pig butchering,” instead advocating for the use of “romance baiting”… 

Meta Fined €251 Million for 2018 Data Breach Impacting 29 Million Accounts

Meta Fined €251 Million for 2018 Data Breach Impacting 29 Million Accounts

Dec 18, 2024Ravie LakshmananData Breach / Privacy Meta Platforms, the parent company of Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, and Threads, has been fined €251 million (around $263 million) for a 2018 data breach that impacted millions of… 

Critical Apache Struts Flaw Found, Exploitation Attempts Detected

Critical Apache Struts Flaw Found, Exploitation Attempts Detected

Dec 18, 2024Ravie LakshmananCyber Attack / Vulnerability Threat actors are attempting to exploit a recently disclosed security flaw impacting Apache Struts that could pave the way for remote code execution. The issue, tracked as CVE-2024-53677,… 

Attackers Exploit Microsoft Teams and AnyDesk to Deploy DarkGate Malware

Attackers Exploit Microsoft Teams and AnyDesk to Deploy DarkGate Malware

Dec 17, 2024Ravie LakshmananMalware / Credential Theft A new social engineering campaign has leveraged Microsoft Teams as a way to facilitate the deployment of a known malware called DarkGate. “An attacker used social engineering via…