FBI Plans to Monitor Social Media May Spark Privacy …

A new initiative to pull data from social media platforms may clash with policies prohibiting the use of information for mass surveillance. The Federal Bureau of Investigation wants to intensify its monitoring of Facebook, Twitter, and other social media platforms to detect potential threats. But its plans may collide with privacy policies and, potentially, Facebook’s
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FBI Issues Relationship Fraud/Confidence Scheme Warning

Criminals are getting increasingly sophisticated in their efforts to commit fraud and recruit ‘money mules,’ according to the FBI. The FBI has issued a warning on the growing sophistication of criminals creating false online personas to launch confidence schemes, commit romance fraud, and recruit “money mules,” or individuals tasked with carrying illegal sums or criminal
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FBI Publishes GandCrab Decryption Keys

Publishing the keys should render existing versions of the ransomware far less dangerous for victims. What happens when malware retires? In the case of ransomware package GandCrab, the whole world learns your secrets. In a July 15 announcement, the FBI shared the decryption keys for multiple versions of GandCrab, rendering future attacks using these versions
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FBI Warns of Dangers in 'Safe' Websites

Criminals are using TLS certificates to convince users that fraudulent sites are worthy of their trust.
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Oklahoma Data Leak Compromises Years of FBI Data

The Oklahoma Securities Commission accidentally leaked 3 TB of information, including data on years of FBI investigations. Researchers have disclosed a huge leak of government data stemming from the Oklahoma Securities Commission. As discovered by UpGuard researcher Greg Pollock, 3 TB of data was exposed, including millions of files, many of which pertained to FBI investigations. The data was
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