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YouTube SMS Blaster Ad Displays Scam Messages That Impersonate Telcos
Google does some good work to tackle scams but its indifference to social media adverts for scam equipment is disgraceful. A new advert shows an SMS blaster impersonating Globe and Smart, the two largest telcos in the Philippines.
New IMSI-Catcher Spy Adverts on YouTube
Social media companies need to be regulated if they will not voluntarily remove adverts for the tools of crime.
Financial Times Documentary Explains Cybercrime, IMSI-Catchers and Scam Compounds
The producers spent over a year researching the global empires of Chinese cyber fraud syndicates, traveling the world to interview police, criminals and me.
Shocking IMSI‑catcher Shopping Mall Surveillance Advert Returns to YouTube
In a world where everybody talks about using AI to stop crime, why is Google not vetting video adverts for equipment used by scammers?
How the CIA Uses YouTube and TOR to Recruit Spies
We are living through an era of moral ambiguity over what can be said secretly and what can be said openly.
YouTube Profits from Adverts for IMSI-Catchers
The video-sharing platform runs paid adverts for radio devices that criminals use to scam and spy upon the public.
Hard Data Shows Why Phone Honeypots Would Stop Illegal Comms
New research by North Carolina State University also says spammers have adapted to STIR/SHAKEN and that 80% of unsolicited US robocalls have a STIR/SHAKEN signature.
South Korean Police Offers Cash and Reduced Sentences to Scammers Who Turn Informant This Month
Authorities in South Korea want scammers to return from compounds in China, Cambodia and the Philippines. In other news, NZ police found the country's first SMS smishing blaster.
This IMSI-Catcher Video Will Scare You
The marketing of IMSI-catchers demonstrates a desire to sell them to bad actors. It also shows why governments should be doing more to prevent sales of equipment used by criminals.
YouTuber Gets Inside Smishing and Social Engineering
Micode followed digital breadcrumbs that began with an SMS from a number reserved for M2M, took him via web servers and Telegram channels, to swindlers with a psychopathic lack of remorse.
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