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You think you know your co-founder and then you find out he's interviewing to get a SWE gig for a North Korean hiring scam, smdh.
Read @craigsilverman.bsky.social's awesome new investigation:
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This is what always surprises people. The ability to make deepfake nudes isn't hidden in some dusty, hard to access part of the internet. It's available in the most accessible ways like the Google Play store and the Apple App store.
Anyone with a cell phone can make a deepfake nude in minutes.
Come i siti che indagano sui tradimenti sentimentali usano informazioni false e dubbie per farsi pagare |
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Worth a read.
From @craigsilverman.bsky.social
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DPRK hackers hired unwitting freelancers in the Philippines, Nigeria, and Colombia to put a human face on a malware operation — and make fake companies feel real.
DPRK hackers hired unwitting freelancers in the Philippines, Nigeria, and Colombia to put a human face on a malware operation — and make fake companies feel real.
DPRK hackers hired unwitting freelancers in the Philippines, Nigeria, and Colombia to put a human face on a malware operation — and make fake companies feel real.
Absolutely awesome to see that my guide to using Skills in Chrome helped an investigator with his work! Here's the post: indicator.media/p/the-indica...
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Alan Jagolinzer
New on @indicator.media: We have long known that some "face swapping" apps market themselves as deepfake nude generators. At least one of these was used in a recent case in a US high school.
But new research shows the majority of these tools do not have any guardrails against nonconsensual abuse.
Apple and Google removed 43 apps flagged by Indicator
