Marcelinios is a YouTube channel with nearly 95,000 subscribers. Currently, that channel is being held for ransom by hackers, who are demanding a payment in bitcoin. Marcelinios isn’t alone, GamerThumbTV and a few others have also fallen victim to this channel theft and ransom. We’ve seen scammers exploit loopholes in the YouTube copyright system to […]
Google this week removed two malicious extensions from the Chrome Web Store. The two extensions were caught stuffing cookies in web browsers of over a million of their users, as an affiliate referral scheme. The ad blockers “AdBlock”and “uBlock Origin” used names misleadingly similar to those of more reputable software. Andrey Meshkov, co-founder and CTO […]
DeepMind has created an AI system to helps scholars recreate ancient Greek texts from broken stone tablets. The system called PYTHIA, named for the oracle at Delphi who translated the divine word of Apollo, is the first neural network for ancient text restoration able to recover missing characters. These text, some as old as 2,700 years, […]
A report by Check Point Research, says a well known botnet and malware agent is engaging in a massive sextortion campaign. The researchers say this botnet is acting as a spambot to target innocent recipients. The makers of the Phorpiex botnet also called Trik seem to have added a new sextortion scam to make money. […]
Yahoo announced this week it will sunset its Yahoo Groups platform. The announcement post says that on October 21, users will no longer be able to post new content on the site, and on December 14 all content will be permanently deleted. Yahoo Groups has been around since 2001, and has largely been abandoned in favor […]
Marcelinios is a YouTube channel with nearly 95,000 subscribers. Currently, that channel is being held for ransom by hackers, who are demanding a payment in bitcoin. Marcelinios isn’t alone, GamerThumbTV and a few others have also fallen victim to this channel theft and ransom. We’ve seen scammers exploit loopholes in the YouTube copyright system to […]
