Lewis Maddison reports: A remarkably small number of cybercriminals are reportedly responsible for all the world’s email extortion attempts, new research has claimed. Security firm Barracuda Networks, in partnership with Columbia University, looked at over 300,000 emails in a one-year period that the company’s AI detectors had flagged as extortion attacks, and found that the…
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Houston man stole nudes for blackmail from 1,000-plus victims: FBI
Michael Murney reports: A Houston man is facing federal charges for allegedly stealing nude photos and videos from victims, then using to the images to extort them into sending more. Authorities Thursday arrested 23-year-old Andrew Venegas of Magnolia for sexual exploitation of children, according to court documents. The documents detail an alleged scheme in which Venegas…
Even the Government Thinks It Should Stop Buying Corporate Surveillance Data
Intern Nicholas Wilson at EFF was the primary author of this post by Andrew Crocker: U.S. government intelligence agencies are buying data about us. The danger to our civil liberties is so extreme that even the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) said things have gone too far in a detailed report released in June….
FTC Gives Final Approval to Order Banning BetterHelp from Sharing Sensitive Health Data for Advertising, Requiring It to Pay $7.8 Million
The Federal Trade Commission finalized an order requiring online counseling service BetterHelp to pay $7.8 million and prohibiting it from sharing consumers’ health data for advertising, resolving allegations the firm shared consumers’ sensitive health data with third parties such as Facebook and Snapchat for advertising after promising to keep such data private. In an action first…