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Free Spotify Premium hacks on social media are spreading infostealers

| | clickfix, Instagram, instagram clickfix, Reels, SBN News, Scams, Spotify
Cybercriminals are turning TikTok and Instagram Reels into malware delivery platforms, using free software tutorials to spread infostealers ...
Malwarebytes

Instagram Password Reset Flow Raises Concerns Over Potential User Phone Data Exposure

| | Cyber threats and incidents, Instagram, Password reset
What happened A recently highlighted issue in Instagram’s password reset process has raised cybersecurity concerns around potential user data exposure. The flaw is associated with the platform’s account recovery mechanism, where attackers ...
CISO Whisperer
Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts

Hackers Used Meta’s AI Support Bot to Seize Instagram Accounts

| | A Little Sunshine, Black Lotus Labs, Ian Goldin, Instagram, Latest Warnings, Meta, The Coming Storm, Web Fraud 2.0
The Instagram accounts for the Obama White House and the Chief Master Sergeant of the U.S. Space Force were briefly defaced with pro-Iranian images and messages over the weekend, after instructions began ...
Krebs on Security
Meta’s confusing new approach to chat privacy

Meta’s confusing new approach to chat privacy

| | AI, E2EE, Instagram, Meta, Privacy, SBN News, WhatsApp
WhatsApp now offers disappearing AI chats Meta says it cannot read. While Instagram just removed the feature that stopped Meta reading your messages ...
Malwarebytes
U.S. Consumers Lost $2.1 Billion in Social Media Scams in 2025, FTC Says

U.S. Consumers Lost $2.1 Billion in Social Media Scams in 2025, FTC Says

| | facebook, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Fortra, Instagram, Investment Scams, Meta, romance scams, Social Media Scams, WhatsApp
An FTC report says that Americans last year lost $2.1 billion in social media scams, such as shopping and investment schemes. Social media site have become the place where most of these ...
Security Boulevard
TikTok Refuses End-to-End Encryption for DMs — Here's What That Really Means

TikTok Says No to End-to-End Encryption: Here’s Why That’s a Big Deal

| | Authorized Access, china, Content Moderation, Cybersecurity, Data breaches, data protection, Digital Rights, Direct Messages, end-to-end encryption, Episodes, government surveillance, Instagram, Messaging Apps, Meta, Privacy, security, social media, TikTok, UK Regulations, User Safety, Weekly Edition, WhatsApp
In a move that bucks the entire industry trend, TikTok has confirmed it will not implement end-to-end encryption (E2EE) for direct messages on its platform — arguing that E2EE would make users ...
Shared Security Podcast

TikTok’s New U.S. Deal and Privacy Policy: What Users Don’t Understand

| | , California privacy law, CCPA, Chinese Ownership, Cyber Security, Cybersecurity, Data Collection, Data Privacy, data protection, Digital Privacy, Episodes, facebook, Flock Partnership, Home Security Cameras, Immigration Status, Information Security, Infosec, Instagram, location data, Meta, Misinformation, national security, Oracle, Podcast, Podcasts, Privacy, Privacy Concerns, Privacy Policy, Ring Cameras, Search Party Feature, security, sensitive data, Social Media Controversy, Social Media Security, technology, Terms of Service, threat models, TikTok, user data, user privacy, Weekly Edition
TikTok has shifted to a majority-American entity, TikTok USDS Joint Venture, LLC, to comply with U.S. national security requirements and avoid a ban. This week we discuss why a recent privacy policy ...
Shared Security Podcast

Child exploitation, grooming, and social media addiction claims put Meta on trial

| | facebook, Family and parenting, Instagram, Meta, SBN News
Landmark trials now underway allege Meta failed to protect children from sexual exploitation, grooming, and addiction-driven design ...
Malwarebytes
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces the plan to make Facebook more private at Facebook’s Developer Conference on April 30, 2019

Meta AI is a ‘Privacy Disaster’ — OK Boomer

| | cybersecurity risks of generative ai, dark patterns, DeleteFacebook, facebook, Facebook Spyware, generative AI, generative ai gen ai, Generative AI risks, Generative AI Security, generative artificial intelligence, Instagram, Large Language Models (LLM), Large language models (LLMs), LLM, llm applications security, Meta, Meta AI, Meta Platforms, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, social media, social network, social networking, social networking security, Social networks, spyware
More Meta mess: Pundits accuse Zuckerberg’s latest app of having a “dark pattern,” tricking the over 50s into oversharing ...
Security Boulevard
Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg announces the plan to make Facebook more private at Facebook’s Developer Conference on April 30, 2019

Meta’s Secret Spyware: ‘Local Mess’ Hack Tracks You Across the Web

| | android, android spyware, Browser Privacy, cookies, DeleteFacebook, facebook, Facebook Spyware, Incognito, Incognito Mode, Instagram, Meta, Meta Pixel, Meta Platforms, Privacy, SB Blogwatch, social media, social network, social networking, social networking security, Social networks, spyware, tracking, tracking cookies, Tracking Pixel, WebRTC leaks, Yandex
Farcebok: Zuckerberg’s privacy pledge revealed as ineffectual ...
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