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Spam trends of the week: Cybercrooks phish for Facebook and Instagram business accounts, Bitdefender Antispam Lab warns

Beginning April 4, researchers at Bitdefender Antispam Lab spotted a new wave of
phishing emails targeting Meta business account holders. The phony messages
impersonating both Facebook and Instagram target North Americans and Europeans.

Your Facebook page will be removed unless…

One spam sample analyzed by our researchers appears to target a vegan cosmetics
business in the US. The email notifies the business owner that their “Facebook
page is at risk of being removed from our platform” due to

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Ukrainian hackers spend $25,000 of pro-Russian blogger’s money on sex toys

A pro-Russian blogger who raised $25,000 for drones to assist Russian troops
fighting in Ukraine, has received a huge delivery of sex toys instead.

Hackers from the Cyber Resistance Group broke into the account of Putin
supporter Mikhail Luchin, and spent the funds he had planned to use purchase
Chinese drones on tens of thousands of dollars worth of dildos and strap-ons.

The hackers claim that they ordered the sex toys on AliExpress using Luchin’s
credit card.

In a Telegram post, the Cyber R

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UK Data Privacy Watchdog Fines TikTok £12.7 million for Failing to Remove Underage Users

The UK’s Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has slapped TikTok with a £12.7
million fine for failing to keep users under the age of 13 from accessing its
platform and “misusing children’s data.”

Although it has a policy that prohibits children under 13 from using its
service, the social media platform needed to have properly enforced it.
According to ICO estimates, roughly 1.4 million children were using TikTok in
the UK alone in 2020.

The risks of exposing young, impressionable minds to

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