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Helping Child Bloggers: Practical Safety Guidance for Parents

📸 Parents should engage when children show interest in blogging, using open discussion to build trust and teach online safety. The article recommends creating accounts together, reviewing privacy settings, disabling geolocation, choosing strong unique passwords, and enabling two-factor authentication to reduce account-takeover risk. It also outlines what not to post, how to monitor usernames, and how to spot scams, doxing, and stalker behavior.

Mobile Phishers Target Brokerage Accounts in Ramp-and-Dump

📈 Cybercriminals selling advanced mobile phishing kits have shifted from converting stolen cards into mobile wallets to hijacking brokerage accounts for a coordinated ramp and dump scheme that inflates and then collapses foreign and penny stock prices. Vendors such as Outsider (aka Chenlun) offer templates that spoof brokers via iMessage and RCS to harvest logins and SMS one-time codes. Operators use banks of phones and human handlers to preposition, trade, and liquidate positions, leaving victims with worthless shares while brokers and regulators contend with the fallout.

Muddled Libra Strike Teams: Collaborative Cybercrime

🧩 Muddled Libra is not a single organized group but a fluid collaboration of personas that form distinct strike teams with varying objectives and tradecraft. Unit 42 has identified patterns across at least seven teams, from crypto theft and extortion to IP theft and mass data harvesting. Defenders should prioritize protecting high-value data, tighten access controls, and assume evolving tactics rather than a fixed adversary profile.

How Young People Can Level Up Their Cybersecurity Practices

🔒 Digital natives often spend more time online and maintain large numbers of accounts, which increases exposure to scams, phishing and account takeovers. Research shows Gen Z is less likely to use unique passwords, enable MFA, or install updates regularly, and some admit sharing sensitive data with AI or bypassing corporate security tools. Simple, practical steps — stick to official app stores, keep software updated, deploy trusted security software, review privacy settings and treat unsolicited offers with skepticism — can significantly reduce risk.

ISP Exposes Administrative Credentials via S3 Misconfig

🔓On October 11, 2018 UpGuard discovered that an Amazon S3 bucket named "pinapp2" exposed 73 GB of data belonging to Pocket iNet. The downloadable "tech" folder contained plaintext administrative passwords, AWS secret keys, network configuration files, inventory lists, and photographs of hardware and towers. Pocket iNet was notified the same day and secured the exposure on October 19, 2018. The incident highlights how misconfigured S3 ACLs and poor credential hygiene can place critical infrastructure at risk.

Phishers Target Aviation Executives, Steal Customer Funds

📧 A targeted phishing campaign compromised an aviation executive’s Microsoft 365 credentials, allowing attackers to mine past invoice conversations and send convincing fake invoice requests to customers. Within hours the fraudsters registered a near‑identical domain and at least one customer paid a six‑figure phony invoice. Investigation links the registration details to a long‑running Nigerian BEC ring identified as SilverTerrier; firms are urged to combine employee training, domain monitoring and rapid use of the Financial Fraud Kill Chain to improve recovery chances.

Google survey: U.S. consumers report rising online scams

🔒 Google’s latest survey with Morning Consult shows U.S. consumers increasingly aware of online scams and taking new protective steps. Over 60% report an uptick in scams and one-third say they experienced a data breach, with texts and email the most common vectors. The report highlights generational differences in sign-in preferences — older adults rely on passwords while Gen Z favors passkeys and social sign-ins — and recommends Google Password Manager, 2‑Step Verification and modern authentication methods.

Android security and privacy updates in 2025 — protections

🔒 Google outlines a suite of Android security and privacy enhancements for 2025, focused on countering scams, fraud, and device theft. New in-call protections block risky actions during calls with unknown contacts, and a UK pilot will extend screen-sharing warnings to participating banking apps. AI-powered Scam Detection in Google Messages has been expanded and runs on-device to preserve privacy, while a new Key Verifier enables public-key verification for end-to-end encrypted messages. Additional theft protections, Advanced Protection device settings, and updates to Google Play Protect round out the release.

0ktapus Phishing Campaign Compromises 130+ Firms Worldwide

🔐 Researchers link a sprawling phishing campaign to the 0ktapus threat group, which spoofed Okta authentication pages and induced employees to submit credentials and MFA codes. The operation hit more than 130 organizations and led to 9,931 compromised accounts, with targeted activity against Twilio and Cloudflare staff. Group-IB reports 5,441 harvested MFA codes and urges URL vigilance, better password hygiene and adoption of FIDO2 security keys.