Malware campaigns spammed out in the last 24 hours have pretended to be breaking news stories from the likes of CNN and the BBC.
The BBC has revealed that it suffered a “sophisticated cyber attack” following a campaign of persistent intimidation from the Iranian authorities.
Be on the lookout for emails claiming to come from a daytime TV show, after it was discovered that scammers are using the disguise to grab personal information.
The BBC claims that computer hackers were hired by private investigators to spy on politicians and the military. And who benefited from the hacking? The British press.
Elliot Schrage, Facebook’s VP Public Policy, was struck dumb by BBC reporter Emily Maitlis when she quizzed him about the ethics of “Sponsored Stories” on Facebook in a television documentary shown this weekend in the UK.
Who do you trust online? Your friends? Lady Gaga? The media? How about the BBC? If you read a news story on the BBC website, would you trust what it was saying?
A compromised Twitter account has resulted in the embarrassing broadcast of a spam message via the BBC’s website. Would the typical rugby fan really be interested in an Acai Berry diet?
I must be the luckiest person on the planet – I keep winning lotteries! Here’s the latest notification – straight from Aunty Beeb herself, the BBC.
Has Lady Gaga really been found dead in a hotel room? A clickjacking scam which has spread rapidly across Facebook would certainly like you to think so.
Did a British newspaper hire a hacker to infect someone’s computer with a spyware Trojan horse?
A controversial BBC soap opera plotline is being exploited on Facebook by rogue applications to earn money through survey scams.
Read more in my article at Naked Security.
Read more in my article at Naked Security.