TikTok shopping scams is a new attack vector on online shoppers. Immense popularity of the Chinese social network led to addition of shopping functionality to the application. This, however, attracted fraudulent actors who aim at parasitizing on peoples’ unawareness about potential scams. In this article, I am going to explain how these scams work, and… Continue reading TikTok Shopping Scams On The Rise: Tips to Avoid
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TikTok Flooded By Elon Musk Cryptocurrency Giveaway Scams
Recently, TikTok has been inundated with a flood of cryptocurrency giveaway scam videos spread across the platform. Mostly, these scams are masquerading as topics related to Elon Musk, Tesla, or SpaceX. The potential for quick and easy cryptocurrency makes these a constant and disturbing threat. TikTok flooded by “Elon Musk cryptocurrency giveaway” scams. Today, the… Continue reading TikTok Flooded By Elon Musk Cryptocurrency Giveaway Scams
TikTok Invisible Challenge Is Used to Spread Malware
TikTok Invisible Challenge became yet another host for threat actors. Crooks found a way to spread the WASP information stealer as a specific utility to revert the in-app filter. Users who ate the bait are risking their account credentials and banking information. What is the TikTok Invisible Challenge? Same as Instagram back in the previous… Continue reading TikTok Invisible Challenge Is Used to Spread Malware
TikTok Scams Stealing Money And Data. Beware!
TikTok has become a popular social network with over a billion registered users. According to statistics, each user spends about 95 minutes daily on this platform. Such an extensive social network is also susceptible to many different scams. Scammers found ways here to hurt users and lure them into their traps. Who is being targeted… Continue reading TikTok Scams Stealing Money And Data. Beware!
Attackers can bypass TikTok multi-factor authentication through the site
Journalists of the ZDNet publication, citing one of their readers, report that the web version of TikTok did not receive multi-factor authentication (via mail and SMS), which developers established for all users of the platform in August. Thus, an attacker who somehow learned someone else’s credentials (for example, through a phishing attack or brute force)… Continue reading Attackers can bypass TikTok multi-factor authentication through the site
Vulnerability in Indian TikTok clone allows hacking user profiles
The Hacker News reports that Indian security specialist Rahul Kankral discovered a critical vulnerability in the Mitron Android application, which is a TikTok clone. The vulnerability allows you to capture other people’s accounts without any user interaction. More recently, the Mitron app hit the headlines with over 5 million installations and over 250,000 five-star ratings… Continue reading Vulnerability in Indian TikTok clone allows hacking user profiles
Researchers hacked TikTok app via SMS
Check Point experts found many issues in one of the world’s most popular applications, TikTok. Recently researchers hacked TikTok app using sms. TikTok is available in more than 150 markets, is used in 75 languages worldwide and has more than 1 billion users. In October 2019, TikTok was called one of the most downloaded applications… Continue reading Researchers hacked TikTok app via SMS