social engineering
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UK Police Warn Against Using Sci-Hub’s 85 Million Documents of Pirated Research
Police in the UK issued a warning over the weekend against visiting Sci-Hub, a website that offers over 85 million free research papers that are typically behind paywalls. Police claim that people associated with Sci-Hub are dangerous because they “steal” login credentials from students and faculty at universities, a claim the website’s administrators have previously…
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North Korean Hackers Successfully Phished Cyber Researchers Using a Fake Blog
A recent phishing campaign by North Korean nation-state hackers successfully duped a number of security professionals who were involved in vulnerability research and development, according to a new report from Google’s Threat Analysis Group.
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Google Goes To War Against Annoying Fake Download Buttons
You know that fun game you play every time you wander over to Download.com and try to download an app? The game where you have to find the right download button in a sea of buttons or risk infecting your computer with malware until the end of time? Well, it’s game over man.
