Queen Elizabeth II tribute website with problems - Death of Elizabeth II: Personal data hacked on a fake tribute site.
Once on the site to post a message about the late queen, the Windows credentials are claimed and stolen.
Rather opportunistic hackers are currently using the death of Queen Elizabeth II to commit their forfeits, according to a Proofprint analysis relayed by Phonandroid this Thursday. Surfing on the sympathy capital of the sovereign, they pretend to be the Microsoft company and try to steal personal data.
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This attack takes the form of an email apparently sent by the American giant. Inside this email, the victims have the opportunity to post a message on a dedicated site, in memory of the British Queen. Once on the site, the user is asked to give his Microsoft credentials if he wishes to write a few words. "The messages contained links to an credentials collection page redirecting to a URL targeting Microsoft's email credentials, including the collection of multiple authentication codes," Proofpoint says.
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Given the attachment of British subjects to their late sovereign, the British National Cyber Security Center (NCSC) has taken this phishing campaign very seriously.
He therefore broadcast a prevention message on Tuesday, asking Internet users to be "attentive to emails, text messages and other communications concerning the death of Her Majesty the Queen and the arrangements made for her funeral".
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Researchers have determined that 20% of the videos obtained in the results on different current topics contained false information.
The application is increasingly used by teenagers as a search engine, and this is not necessarily good news. Misinformation on TikTok has reached alarming levels, according to a study published Wednesday by the company NewsGuard. The latter conducted research at the beginning of September on various current topics, from the invasion of Ukraine by Russia to Covid vaccines, and determined that 20% of the videos obtained in the results contained false or misleading information.
NewsGuard, a company specialized in evaluation tools for news sites, highlights in particular a video in which a young woman reveals her recipe for a "remedy that can cure everything", hydroxychloroquine, a controversial treatment that has proven ineffective against Covid.
According to NewsGuard, "the toxicity of TikTok is now a significant danger because Google searches suggest that TikTok is increasingly used by young people (...) to find information". "In 2021, TikTok surpassed Google as the most popular website in the world, according to Cloudflare", a company specializing in infrastructure and services on the Internet.
In general, NewsGuard researchers assure that even search results that do not contain misinformation "are often more divisive than those of Google". They quote insulting words on many videos about the US elections.
"Our regulation makes it clear that we do not allow harmful misinformation, including medical misinformation, and we remove content that falls under it from the platform," a TikTok spokesperson reacted. The application further believes that the study methodology has flaws because it draws conclusions from limited research.
