Details of a Scam
September 30 2025Longtime Crypto-Gram readers know that I collect personal experiences of people being scammed. Here’s an almost:
Then he added, “Here at Chase, we’ll never ask for your personal...
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GPT-4o-mini Falls for Psychological Manipulation
September 5 2025Interesting experiment:
To design their experiment, the University of Pennsylvania researchers tested 2024’s GPT-4o-mini model on two requests that it should ideally refuse: calling the user a jerk and...
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The “Incriminating Video” Scam
August 12 2025A few years ago, scammers invented a new phishing email. They would claim to have hacked your computer, turned your webcam on, and videoed you watching porn or having...
Read moreTroy Hunt Gets Phished
April 4 2025In case you need proof that anyone, even someone who does cybersecurity for a living, can fall for a phishing attack, Troy Hunt has a long, iterative story on...
Read moreSocial Engineering to Disable iMessage Protections
January 17 2025I am always interested in new phishing tricks, and watching them spread across the ecosystem.
A few days ago I started getting phishing SMS messages with a new twist. They...
Read moreJailbreaking LLM-Controlled Robots
December 11 2024Surprising no one, it’s easy to trick an LLM-controlled robot into ignoring its safety instructions.
Read moreClever Social Engineering Attack Using Captchas
September 20 2024This is really interesting. It’s a phishing attack targeting GitHub users, tricking them to solve a fake Captcha that actually runs a script that is copied to the command line. Clever.
Read morePython Developers Targeted with Malware During Fake Job Interviews
September 17 2024Interesting social engineering attack: luring potential job applicants with fake recruiting pitches, trying to convince them to download malware. From a news article
These particular attacks from North...
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AI Voice Scam
May 1 2024Scammers tricked a company into believing they were dealing with a BBC presenter. They faked her voice, and accepted money intended for her.
Read moreUsing Legitimate GitHub URLs for Malware
April 22 2024Interesting social-engineering attack vector:
McAfee released a report on a new LUA malware loader distributed through what appeared to be a legitimate Microsoft GitHub repository for the “C++...
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