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[?]AA » 🌐
@AAKL@infosec.exchange

New. If you don't know the caller, don't answer or just hang up without giving any information. Call your bank directly instead, then block and report the malicious caller.

"According to Jersey's police force, most of the reported incidents have seen a victim receive an unexpected phone call from someone claiming to work for a bank (either in their fraud or security department, or Revolut's customer support team.)"

Bitdefender: Revolut scam steals £180,000 from Jersey residents in just four weeks bitdefender.com/en-us/blog/hot @gcluley

    [?]AA » 🌐
    @AAKL@infosec.exchange

    New.

    Check Point: Gaming the system: how a Chinese-speaking actor turned Brazilian government sites into an SEO weapon research.checkpoint.com/2026/g

    More:

    "Check Point Research (CPR) dubbed the group Gambling Goblin and assessed with medium-to-high confidence that it is connected to Earth Berberoka, a Chinese-speaking cluster documented by Trend Micro in 2022 as targeting gambling platforms serving Chinese-speaking users."

    Infosecurity-Magazine: Gambling Goblin Turns Brazilian Government Sites Into SEO Weapons infosecurity-magazine.com/news

      [?]AA » 🌐
      @AAKL@infosec.exchange

      Inc: This MyChart Scam Doesn’t Exploit a Security Flaw. It Preys on Patient Trust inc.com/amaya-nichole/mychart- @IncMagazine

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        [?]Simon Zerafa » 🌐
        @simonzerafa@infosec.exchange

        It's long past time I got into one or another speculative bubble.

        Which one should I start so I fleece investors most effectively? 🙂🤷‍♂️

        Cryptocurrency:0
        AI / LLM circular financing:0
        Tulip Bulbs:3
        Sub Prime Retail Mortgages and CDO's:0
        Dot Com Stocks:0
        South Seas Trading Companies:4
        Junk Bonds:0
        High-leverage call loans from commercial banks:1
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          [?]Wen » 🌐
          @Wen@mastodon.scot

          The people of Clacton have spoken

          Cartoon by Morland, the election spokesman stands at a podium and announces ‘THE PEOPLE OF CLACTON HAVE VOTED OVERWHELMINGLY IN FAVOUR OF THE STANDARDS COMMISSIONER COMPLETING THE INVESTIGATION INJO NIGEL PAUL FARAGE.’ Binface and Farage stand to one side. In the event Farage is not going to be there no matter the result.

          Alt...Cartoon by Morland, the election spokesman stands at a podium and announces ‘THE PEOPLE OF CLACTON HAVE VOTED OVERWHELMINGLY IN FAVOUR OF THE STANDARDS COMMISSIONER COMPLETING THE INVESTIGATION INJO NIGEL PAUL FARAGE.’ Binface and Farage stand to one side. In the event Farage is not going to be there no matter the result.

            [?]Nonilex » 🌐
            @Nonilex@masto.ai

            Almost 1 million people lost money on the , racking up a total of $3.8 billion of losses through the end of June, according to research by analytics firm Nansen cited by NYT.

            “The must be willing to enforce the even when potential wrongdoers include those with powerful political connections,” the lawmakers wrote in the letter.


            nytimes.com/2026/07/04/us/poli

              [?]Nonilex » 🌐
              @Nonilex@masto.ai

              Democratic Sens. & are calling for the Securities & Exchange Commission to investigate ’s “to detect any illegal or unjust enrichment that the coin may have facilitated.”

              “We are concerned that President Trump’s memecoin scheme may constitute an ,” Warren & Blumenthal wrote on Monday to Chair Paul Atkins.


              cnn.com/2026/08/04/investing/t

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                [?]Yora » 🌐
                @yora@mastodon.gamedev.place

                SpaceX stock is down to $124, for a while having been down to $120.
                From having started at $135 and reaching $160 at the end of the first day.

                And no surprise. It's a company that barely has any real business and is run by a brain damaged techbro fascist who's making his business decisions based on drug induced delusions.

                There's still so much more way to go until the stock price reaches its true value. At 13 billion shares, it should be under $1.

                  JJDavis :terminal: boosted

                  [?]ProPublica » 🌐
                  @ProPublica@newsie.social

                  NEW: After ProPublica and The Texas Tribune revealed Ken Paxton repeatedly voted while registered at an address where he appears to no longer live, Democrats called for an investigation into whether the Texas attorney general committed election fraud.

                  propublica.org/article/texas-d

                    Draken BlackKnight boosted

                    [?]Nonilex » 🌐
                    @Nonilex@masto.ai

                    Fantastic

                    US judge voids Trump's settlement with IRS

                    A US judge on Monday voided 's [totally illegal] with the ‌that gave him & his companies sweeping protections & initially set up a nearly $1.8 billion government ​#SlushFund to pay victims of so-called ​government weaponization.


                    reuters.com/world/us-judge-voi

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                      [?]AI6YR Ben » 🌐
                      @ai6yr@m.ai6yr.org

                      Article in the LA Times about someone who committed fraud. Maybe I'm strange, but I have an inherent distrust of someone wearing designer clothing/etc.

                      "...Ma was enticed by a promise of quick returns and encouraged by what seemed like trappings of success, he said in an interview: Nguyen wore Chanel sunglasses, dressed in designer clothes and drove a Tesla...."

                      latimes.com/california/story/2

                      Ma was enticed by a promise of quick returns and encouraged by what seemed like trappings of success, he said in an interview: Nguyen wore Chanel sunglasses, dressed in designer clothes and drove a Tesla.

                      Alt...Ma was enticed by a promise of quick returns and encouraged by what seemed like trappings of success, he said in an interview: Nguyen wore Chanel sunglasses, dressed in designer clothes and drove a Tesla.

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                        [?]Kim Perales » 🌐
                        @KimPerales@toad.social

                        "Close advisors have been informing him🚨the likeliest cause of any “rip” in the Reflecting Pool surface came from him insisting the full motorcade drive on the fresh surface to “inspect” it before it was refilled,🚨which he immediately denies to blame liberals."
                        -J Bourscheid

                        Pic of Trump's motorcade driving on the reflecting pool when it was empty.

                        Alt...Pic of Trump's motorcade driving on the reflecting pool when it was empty.

                          JJDavis :terminal: boosted

                          [?]Kim Perales » 🌐
                          @KimPerales@toad.social

                          Trump🚨freed a man convicted of defrauding 1000s of Americans out of $1.6B from prison after serving 2 weeks of a 7 year sent & then Trump’s appointees squashed a investigation into how the grant of clemency was procured *pot for >$15.5M to the USG.

                          Criminal investigation: circumstances re his clemency *had begun🚨examining whether improper pymts were made to help facilitate the commutation awarded to Gentile *PE exec: convicted in a scheme.

                          nytimes.com/2026/06/21/us/poli

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                            [?]Claire McNab [She/her] » 🌐
                            @2legged@mastodon.ie

                            's column in archive.is/QTUUj was overtaken by events. Tickell wrote of 's doomed last stand. By Sunday morning, reports began unanimously predicting surrender. Oops!

                            Still, Tickell's penultimate paras nail the core problem: Starmer is a .

                            For members, the mask fell as soon as Starmer won the leadership. Many voters didn't spot it until Starmer was in No 10.

                            The real villains are the journalists who enabled that fraud.

                            Politics isn’t family therapy. It isn’t a vision quest for the individual egos of people who start hearing voices and think the public deserve them. Electoral failure isn’t a misunderstanding. Public ­disillusionment isn’t always reducible to a communications problem. Sometimes voters simply decide that a politician is not what he claimed to be. That, more than any individual controversy or policy reversal, is the story of Starmer’s premiership. His tragedy is not that he failed despite being exactly what he promised. His tragedy is that voters ­quickly concluded there was nothing there.

                            Alt...Politics isn’t family therapy. It isn’t a vision quest for the individual egos of people who start hearing voices and think the public deserve them. Electoral failure isn’t a misunderstanding. Public ­disillusionment isn’t always reducible to a communications problem. Sometimes voters simply decide that a politician is not what he claimed to be. That, more than any individual controversy or policy reversal, is the story of Starmer’s premiership. His tragedy is not that he failed despite being exactly what he promised. His tragedy is that voters ­quickly concluded there was nothing there.

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                              [?]OCTADE » 🌐
                              @octade@soc.octade.net

                              SMUD - an appropriate name for the electric company conducting surveillance for the police.

                              The $94 Million Smart Meter Surveillance Scheme Exposed

                              https://youtu.be/onYWQJsWFpk

                              Sacramento residents discovered their utility company has been secretly feeding their private energy data to police without warrants, leading to a massive surveillance operation that generated $94 million in fines. This explosive investigation reveals how SMUD transformed smart meters into government spy devices, monitoring when you shower, sleep, or use appliances.

                              Innocent homeowners faced armed police raids for using electricity to power medical equipment or mine cryptocurrency. One resident was forced outside in his underwear at gunpoint, while another disabled veteran was threatened with arrest for refusing warrantless entry. The surveillance threshold dropped dramatically from 7,000 to just 2,800 kilowatt hours per month, making air conditioning use suspicious in Sacramento's brutal heat.

                              Internal documents expose how SMUD analysts actively mined customer data for police, checking over 10,000 homes in a single month. Despite California law explicitly prohibiting utilities from sharing precise meter data without warrants, SMUD violated these protections daily for a decade.

                              The Electronic Frontier Foundation's lawsuit could reshape smart meter privacy nationwide. With the October 2025 court decision approaching, every American with a smart meter needs to understand how their utility company might be spying on them right now.

                              @privacy@a.gup.pe @infosec@a.gup.pe @infostorm@a.gup.pe

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