identity theft
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Bank Robbers in the Middle East Reportedly ‘Cloned’ Someone’s Voice to Assist with $47 Million Heist
Criminals appear to have stolen some $US35 ($47) million from a United Arab Emirates bank with the help of AI-enhanced voice simulation, according to a new report from Forbes. The “deepfaked” vocals were used to fool a bank employee into thinking he was handing over the cash on behalf of a legitimate business transaction associated…
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T-Mobile Offers Free Identity Theft Protection After Hackers Steal Data on Millions of Customers
T-Mobile will offer two years of free identity theft protection services after hackers stole data on roughly 49 million U.S. customers and potential customers, according to a statement from the mobile carrier. The data breach only became public over the past weekend after hackers offered to sell the data for six bitcoin, or roughly $US272,400…
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Kaseya’s Staff Sounded the Alarm About Security Flaws for Years Before Ransomware Attack
Employees warned Kaseya’s higher-ups for years about critical security flaws in its software but their concerns were brushed off, former workers told Bloomberg. Several staffers quit in frustration or were fired after repeatedly sounding the alarm about failings in the IT firm’s cybersecurity practices. Now, Kaseya is at the centre of a massive ransomware attack…
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Your Old Phone Number Could Get You Hacked, Researchers Say
When you get a new phone number, mobile carriers will often “recycle” your old one — assigning it to a new phone and, therefore, a new customer. Carriers say the reason they do this is to stave off a hypothetical future of “number exhaustion” — a sort of “peak oil” for phone numbers, when every…