Exclusive: Instructions show how to trick teenagers into sending intimate photos
to blackmail them financially
* How can children be protected from online sextortion fraud?
Detailed written manuals and video guides to financially motivated sexual
extortion – commonly known as sextortion – are available freely online, with
criminals offering specialist and tailored tuition for further payment, the
Guardian has learned.
The guides can be found on platforms including TikTok, YouTube and Telegram.
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Tag - Cybercrime
State-sponsored hacking campaigns are evolving in social engineering strategies
and technical aspects
Russia’s state security agency is launching increasingly sophisticated phishing
attacks against US, European and Russian civil society members, in some cases by
impersonating individuals who are personally close to the targets of the
attacks, according to a new investigation by security researchers.
A new report by the Citizen Lab at the University of Toronto and Access Now
comes as the FBI has separately launched an investigation into suspected hacking
attempts by Iran targeting an adviser to Donald Trump and advisers to the
Harris-Walz campaign.
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Watchdog reprimands Electoral Commission for not being up-to-date with security
updates before hack in August 2021
The UK’s election watchdog has been reprimanded over online security lapses that
allowed the personal information of 40 million voters to be hacked.
The Information Commissioner’s Office said the Electoral Commission had not kept
its servers up-to-date with the latest security updates before the data breach,
which occurred in August 2021 but was not identified until October 2022.
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National Cyber Security Centre warns of global hacking effort to obtain nuclear
and defence intelligence
North Korean state-backed hackers have mounted a campaign to obtain secrets
related to nuclear materials, military drones, submarines and shipbuilding in
the UK and US, as intelligence agencies warned of a “global cyber-espionage
campaign” targeting sensitive industries.
A joint notice from the US, UK and South Korea warned that the Democratic
People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) was using state-backed attackers to further
the regime’s military and nuclear ambitions. It added that Japan and India had
also been targeted.
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