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Election Interference Report on the November 2020 Election
The most egregious misunderstanding about the November 2020 elections, whether purposeful or not, was the idea that there were late night fraudulent “data dumps” of votes that heavily favored Democrats. “Vote dump” charts and memes proliferated quickly across social media starting in the early hours of November 4th. They purported to show significant voting irregularities, [Read More…]
New SMS phishing campaign (SMISH) pretending to be from the United States Post Office
The Slickrockweb team broke news on a SMS phishing campaign (SMISH) pretending to be from the United States Post Office, pushed out nationally to cell phones in large numbers. The full twitter report was documented by us on September 15th, 2020 [here] Some of our research on this USPS SMISH was picked up by other cybersecurity [Read More…]
“Don’t Click It”, Applies to SMS as Well: Anatomy of a Facebook / SMS Phish
For years we have been taught to be extra cautious when opening emails and to not click on links in unsolicited emails. Sadly this even applies to emails that appear to be from known sources (spear-phishing attempts). There are a number of “tells” one can look for when viewing the raw source code of the [Read More…]
Company News, Cybersecurity, Digital Investigations, Website Security
Malicious Twitter Applications and Abuse of the Twitter API
By: C. Shawn Eib and Eric Ellason Every online platform has at one time or another dealt with their systems being misused by cyber criminals, either for hacking accounts, sending out spam, or infecting other users. The Twitter platform is no different and is also not immune to these problems. Less well known than Facebook [Read More…]
Company News, Cybersecurity, Digital Investigations, Website Security
Welcome to the Fancy Bear Den: To Know All Read a Book
By: Eric Ellason and C. Shawn Eib A massive, sophisticated malware infection campaign, that has been ongoing for well over a year, compromised over 500,000 home and small business routers across 54 countries before the FBI, in coordination with the Shadowserver Foundation, seized a domain responsible for delivering further payloads to infected devices (ref) . [Read More…]
Company News, Cybersecurity, Digital Investigations, Website Security
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