Fake Amazon Prime email abuses LinkedIn’s URL shortener

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Categories: Scams

Tags: LinkedIn

Tags: Slinks

Tags: phish

Tags: phishing

Tags: email

Tags: payment details

Tags: amazon

Tags: gmail

Tags: outlook

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The email claims if you not update your card information in the next 24 hours, your membership benefits will be cancelled.

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New streaming ad technology plays hide-and-seek with gamers

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Tags: Amazon

Tags: Twitch

Tags: Prime

Tags: streaming

Tags: gamer

Tags: gaming

Tags: advert

Tags: advertising

Tags: in-game

We take a look at new form of ad tech for Twitch streaming viewers, but not players. How does it work? Can it even be successful?

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Battle with Bots Prompts Mass Purge of Amazon, Apple Employee Accounts on LinkedIn

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 17:07:34 +0000

On October 10, 2022, there were 576,562 LinkedIn accounts that listed their current employer as Apple Inc. The next day, half of those profiles no longer existed. A similarly dramatic drop in the number of LinkedIn profiles claiming employment at Amazon comes as LinkedIn is struggling to combat a significant uptick in the creation of fake employee accounts that pair AI-generated profile photos with text lifted from legitimate users.

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Ring shares data with police without consent (but it’s in good faith), says Amazon

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Wed, 20 Jul 2022 12:12:11 +0000

Amazon’s Ring is in hot water after revealing in a letter to Senator Ed Markey that it shared data without permission 11 times this year.

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Amazon Photos vulnerability could have given attackers access to user files and data

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 15:25:24 +0000

The retail giant patched a serious flaw in its Amazon Photos app that left user access token exposed to potential attackers.

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De-Googling Carey Parker’s (and your) life: Lock and Code S03E06

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2022 20:41:07 +0000

This week on Lock and Code, we talk about taking the right steps to removing Google and its many services from your life.

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Securitas breached, 3TB of airport employee records exposed

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Mon, 07 Feb 2022 11:42:35 +0000

Securitas, a multinational security services company, left its Amazon S3 buckets open, compromising more than a million files.

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How Phishers Are Slinking Their Links Into LinkedIn

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2022 18:49:38 +0000

If you received a link to LinkedIn.com via email, SMS or instant message, would you click it? Spammers, phishers and other ne’er-do-wells are hoping you will, because they’ve long taken advantage of a marketing feature on the business networking site which lets them create a LinkedIn.com link that bounces your browser to other websites, such as phishing pages that mimic top online brands (but chiefly Linkedin’s parent firm Microsoft).

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