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New X users will need to pay for posting: Elon Musk
In a dampener for new X users, Elon Musk has announced they may be charged for posting content on t…
A small number of ‘superspreaders’ are propagating most of the misinformation on Twitter, study finds
Building on our understanding on the spread of misinformation on social media, a team of analysts a…
Woman loses ₹54 lakh in work-from-home scam! Here's what it is and how to protect yourself
Job hunting is something that most of us do online, be it on social media or various online job por…
Trump authorized the CIA to smear the Chinese government with fake social-media accounts: Reuters
"We wanted them chasing ghosts," said a former official, who told Reuters the campaign was meant to…
Kwan Wei Kevin Tan
Bitcoin trader loses almost $70 million after sending crypto to wrong online account address
A bitcoin trader lost nearly $70 million after criminals tricked them into sending crypto to a fake…
Kenneth Niemeyer
Remote job scams are on the rise! How to stay safe?
Job scams were always around, but ever since the pandemic and lockdowns, remote job scams have beco…
Roaring Kitty rambled about memes, guzzled a beer, and revealed his E-Trade account in a long-awaited livestream. It couldn't reverse a 41% decline in the stock.
Gill streamed his first update in over three years to nearly 650,00 viewers on Friday. He talked me…
Matthew Fox
Is Meta ready to deal with AI porn fakes of female public figures? Its oversight board wants to know.
Meta's oversight board announced it's looking into two pornographic deepfakes that depicted female …
Ana Altchek
Pune man loses ₹2 crore to fake investment scam – what it is and how to protect yourself
In yet another online scam, a Pune man reportedly lost a huge amount in a new fake investment scam.…
Tiffany Haddish said she got so much hate that she made a fake Instagram, hunted down her trolls, and confronted them
Tiffany Haddish said 75% of the comments were from fake profiles, but she tracked down some of her …
Eammon Jacobs
A fantasy author says she created 8 fake Goodreads accounts to take down her competitors after being dropped by her publisher
"I boosted the rating of my book, bombed the ratings of several fellow debut authors, and left revi…
Kai Xiang Teo
The hack of 15,000 Roku accounts is a great reminder: Stop using the same password!
Using a unique password for all your online accounts, and having a password manager to keep track o…
Grace Eliza Goodwin
Delhi Police arrest kingpin who created fake websites of BigBasket, DMart, Blinkit
Delhi Police has arrested the kingpin of a gang of cyber cheats, which used to create fake websites…
Social media platform 'X' decides to withhold accounts after Indian govt executive orders
"Due to legal restrictions, we are unable to publish the executive orders, but we believe that maki…
ANI
'Inception attacks' on Meta VR headsets can trap users in a fake VR environment, researchers found
The attack involves trapping the Meta Quest user in a malicious VR application that mimics the orig…
Grace Eliza Goodwin,Kelsey Vlamis
Hackers place order of over ₹97k from victim's Swiggy account, two held
Two men were arrested for allegedly duping people by hacking food and grocery delivery app Swiggy a…
Elon Musk told his 159 million followers to get Israel war updates from accounts that have peddled fake news
The Twitter owner deleted the post after three hours, but not before it was viewed by millions of u…
Beatrice Nolan
Ethereum co-founder Vitalik Buterin's X account was hacked and followers were duped out of $700,000 for fake NFTs
Buterin has 4.9 million followers on Twitter, and a fake post asked people to connect their digital…
Phil Rosen
HBO's CEO admits he used fake Twitter accounts, including one of a vegan Texas mom named Kelly, to troll critics who left negative reviews
HBO's Casey Bloys admitted he used fake Twitter accounts to hit back at negative reviews, calling i…
Sarah Jackson
Hackers selling X Gold accounts on dark web for phishing, scams: Report
Cybercriminals are profiting from X "Gold" verification badge by selling compromised accounts for p…