Report sheds light on Chinese phishing campaigns against journalists, activists Chinese state-backed freelance hackers have launched a pair of phishing campaigns aimed at journalists and opposition activists in Taiwan, Hong Kong, Tibet, and China's Uyghur region in a span of nine months, according to The Record, a news site by cybersecurity firm Recorded Future.
TechCrunch reports that financial losses linked to social media scams were reported by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission to have increased eightfold over time, exceeding losses attributed to other methods of fraud used by criminals to trick consumers.
More than 16,800 illicit domains masquerading as legitimate government portals, including those from the U.S.'s Department of Motor Vehicles, were discovered by Cyble Research and Intelligence Labs researchers to have been part of the large-scale Operation TrustTrap domain spoofing campaign aimed at extensive user data exfiltration, according to The Cyber Express.
