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Meta Sues Chinese Fake App Makers for Allegedly Breaching Over 1 Million WhatsApp Accounts
Facebook parent company Meta has filed a lawsuit against several Chinese developers accusing them of creating knock-off WhatsApp Android apps that were used to hijack over a million user accounts. The company also revealed it had identified some 400 apps dedicated to stealing Facebook login credentials and reported…
LinkedIn is the latest platform to be plagued by fake profile scams
One LinkedIn group admin told cybercrime expert Brian Krebs he has had to block more than 12,700 suspected fake profiles since January.
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Fake CISO Profiles On LinkedIn Target Fortune 500s
Again, we don’t know much about who or what is behind these profiles, but in August the security firm Mandiant (recently acquired by Google) told Bloomberg that hackers working for the North Korean government have been copying resumes and profiles from leading job listing platforms LinkedIn and Indeed, as part of an elaborate scheme to land jobs at cryptocurrency firms. None of the profiles listed here responded to requests for comment (or to become a connection).
LinkedIn could take one simple step that would make it far easier for people to make informed decisions about whether to trust a given profile: Add a “created on” date for every profile. Twitter does this, and it’s enormously helpful for filtering out a great deal of noise and unwanted communications. The former CISO Mason said LinkedIn also could experiment with offering something akin to Twitter’s verified mark to users who chose to validate that they can respond to email at the domain associated with their stated current employer. Mason said LinkedIn also needs a more streamlined process for allowing employers to remove phony employee accounts. He recently tried to get a phony profile removed from LinkedIn for someone who falsely claimed to have worked for his company. In a statement provided to KrebsOnSecurity, LinkedIn said its teams were actively working to take these fake accounts down. “We do have strong human and automated systems in place, and we’re continually improving, as fake account activity becomes more sophisticated,” the statement reads. “In our transparency report we share how our teams plus automated systems are stopping the vast majority of fraudulent activity we detect in our community — around 96% of fake accounts and around 99.1% of spam and scam.”
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I Uncovered an Army of Fake Men on Hinge
As misinformation grows, TikTok ramps up removal of fake accounts
TikTok continues to combat growing concerns around the prevalence of misinformation on the platform by assuring us that it’s fighting the good fight.
According to a new report, TikTok is the fastest growing news source in the UK, with seven percent of people over the age of 18 getting their news from the platform. Additionally, young people are increasingly using the app as a search engine instead of traditional sites like Google. But the latest research report from Newsguard has revealed that 20 percent of search results on TikTok for timely news topics make false and misleading claims.
However, data released by the platform today (Sept. 28) shows that TikTok’s biggest improvement in enforcing community guidelines, which includes the spread of “harmful misinformation,” has been in removing fake accounts. In the past quarter, from April 1 to June 30 of this year, TikTok has removed over 33 million accounts, an increase from the previous quarter of 13 million. TikTok aims to remove accounts that “that seek to mislead people or use TikTok to deceptively sway public opinion.”
Credit: TikTok
Today’s data also indicated that only .7 percent of the videos removed this quarter were removed because of “integrity and authenticity” — the category that includes harmful misinformation — and “spam and fake account engagement.”
Even though TikTok claims to be stepping up to fight misinformation, they said that last year, too. So what is actually being done to help its users distinguish credible information from disinformation?
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Microsoft Won’t Label Fake News As False In An Attempt To Avoid ‘Censorship’ Cries
Smith said Microsoft wanted to provide the public with more information about who is speaking, what they are saying and allow them to come to their own judgment about whether content was true. “We have to be very thoughtful and careful because — and this is also true of every democratic government — fundamentally, people quite rightly want to make up their own mind and they should,” he said. “Our whole approach needs to be to provide people with more information, not less and we cannot trip over and use what others might consider censorship as a tactic.”
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