Category: Discord
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Four arrested in crackdown on Discord-based SWATting and doxing
Four arrested in crackdown on Discord-based SWATting and doxing How badly do you want to win an online argument? I certainly hope it’s not enough to put the life of the other person at risk. Police in Hungary and Romania have arrested four young men suspected of making hoax bomb threats and terrorising internet users…
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Email Bombs Exploit Lax Authentication in Zendesk
Email Bombs Exploit Lax Authentication in Zendesk Cybercriminals are abusing a widespread lack of authentication in the customer service platform Zendesk to flood targeted email inboxes with menacing messages that come from hundreds of Zendesk corporate customers simultaneously. Zendesk is an automated help desk service designed to make it simple for people to contact companies…
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Discord users’ data stolen by hackers in third-party data breach
Discord users’ data stolen by hackers in third-party data breach Discord has confirmed that users who contacted its customer support service have had their data stolen by hackers, who have attempted to extort a ransom from the company. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog. Graham Cluley Go to grahamcluley
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Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites
Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites Fraudsters are flooding Discord and other social media platforms with ads for hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and eventually abscond with any cryptocurrency funds deposited by players. Here’s a closer look at the social engineering tactics and remarkable…
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Smashing Security podcast #417: Hello, Pervert! – Sextortion scams and Discord disasters
Smashing Security podcast #417: Hello, Pervert! – Sextortion scams and Discord disasters Don’t get duped, doxxed, or drained! In this episode of “Smashing Security” we dive into the creepy world of sextortion scams, and investigate how crypto wallet firm Ledger’s Discord server was hijacked in an attempt to phish for cryptocurrency recovery phrases. All this…
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A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew
A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. However, new details about the internal operations of a prolific voice phishing gang show the group routinely…