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Privacy Tip #488 – Account Change Phishing Alerts from “Apple” Are Tricking Users

By Linn Foster Freedman on April 23, 2026
Posted in Privacy Tips

A new, yet old, scheme has been quite successful and users should beware. If you get an account change message from Apple, be on high alert that it is fake and malicious.

According to Bleeping Computer, the scheme involves a threat actor using an Apple support email (e.g., appleid@id.apple.com) to send phishing emails to…

Privacy Tip #461 – Threat Actors Using Malicious QR Codes to Harvest Sensitive Data Stored with Cookies

By Linn Foster Freedman on September 25, 2025
Posted in Privacy Tips

I love it when people come up to me and say they are “wicked paranoid” about QR codes. I have been trying to educate people on the risks of QR codes for years and that gives me satisfaction that I have prevented that person from becoming a victim of a malicious QR code. QR codes…

Ransomware Criminals Leaking Troves of Data Following Double Extortion Demands

By Linn Foster Freedman on May 13, 2021
Posted in Cybersecurity

It is reported by Bleeping Computer that security researcher DarkTracer has tracked data leaks since 2019, concluding that 34 ransomware groups have leaked data stolen from 2,103 organizations to date. The data are usually leaked on the dark web following a cyber-attack in which the attackers have been able to infiltrate a company system, exfiltrate…

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