Hello everybody,
I hope you’re having a wonderful Wednesday. Below are some of the events in Cybersecurity over the past 48 hours. Some of these things are urgent and require your attention.
As always, let me know if you have any questions or need any cybersecurity advice. As you can see from these writings, we are trying to help the average person in the street regarding cyber security. We try to simplify the language and make the steps easy to follow.
We’ve helped millions of people so far. It’s one thing to support a large corporation in blocking ransomware, but it’s much more rewarding to help a single mother avoid being scammed out of her Christmas savings.
We are here to serve; please use us.
Beware Spyloan applications.
This is one of the worst types of attack that you can pull on anybody. Ruthless and soulless cyber criminals are luring financially fragile people into their web by promising them short-term loans and financing through applications downloaded from Google Play and the Apple Store.
These applications collect all your personal information, including details of your finances and then, instead of giving you a loan, they blackmail you with this information. I’ve heard of a couple of incidences where people have taken their own lives because of the scams.
Targeting anyone for financial gain is despicable, but targeting financially vulnerable people is even lower. You can read the article here, but please do not engage with any applications that promise to give you a fast loan. They are nearly 100% scam apps, and all you will do is empower them to blackmail you. If you have been a victim of this, let me know, and we’ll look into it for you.
Urgent – Update Windows and Firefox
If you are a Microsoft user, please make sure you’re running the latest version of Windows. Also, if you’re using the Firefox Web browser, make sure you’re running the latest version of this one as well.
Hackers based in Russia (there’s no way to prove this, as you can place yourself anywhere in the world these days) are exploiting two zero-day vulnerabilities. These vulnerabilities give remote attackers full access to your device, so please stop what you’re doing now and get updated. This is not a drill. – Update now.
5 Ways to Check If Your Android Device Is Hacked
In addition to scanning your phone with Incognito to check for the presence of commercial and government spy software, here is a great article that gives you five extra things that you can do to see if your Android device has been hacked. If in doubt, always ask us. We are the experts at spy software and hacking phones. This is what we used to do for government clients many, many, many years ago. Wow, I’m getting old 🙂
Wake Up And Smell The Ransomware
In the latest high-profile ransomware attack, Starbucks coffee has been hacked! Support your local coffee shop 🙂
OnlyFans alternative leaks private convos, payment data
Have you ever heard of the website Onlyfans? Well, it’s a website where you can pay to follow a person during their day-to-day life. It is primarily a pornography website that exploits vulnerable people.
One of their biggest competitors, CafeCanli, has been hacked and has leaked sensitive details on hundreds of thousands of its users. This includes payment information as well as conversation logs. You can imagine that a lot of these conversations are sexually explicit and will be used to blackmail the people who have had them. People think they can say what they want on these websites as a password protects them, but they are unsafe.
They may as well be conversing using a megaphone in a public park full of people. Please do not share sensitive information on the Internet. All of these things are definitely going to come back to haunt you. It might not be today, it might not be tomorrow, but it will happen. Be careful.
Major cyber incident at a UK hospital
This is the third time in one year that the National Health Service has come under attack by cybercriminals. Last week, it was a French Hospital. Today, it’s an English hospital, and you can be sure it will be another hospital by the end of the week.
Hey, cybercriminals, leave hospitals alone. Why do you want to put yourself in a position where you could be responsible for somebody not getting proper treatment or, even worse, dying because of your actions? If your grandmother was getting treatment in one of these hospitals, would you still cyberattack them?
AI content detectors
Here is an article that gives you the names of several AI content detectors you can use right now to detect whether the content sent to you is created by artificial intelligence.
Since chat GPT entered the world, everybody’s writing has improved dramatically! People who didn’t even know grammar in the past are now writing essays that would put James Joyce to shame!
The only problem is that they did not write it. They just gave ChatGPT a prompt and it wrote it. Two of the seven tools correctly identified AI content 100% of the time.
We are 100% human, and we always will be 🙂
Free Washing?
A pair of university students say they found and reported a security flaw earlier this year that allowed anyone to avoid paying for laundry provided by over a million internet-connected laundry machines.
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Talk to you on Friday 🙂
Max :-)(-: