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▲ armcat 3 hours ago

I actually got contacted by North Koreans posing as Japanese VC looking to partner in the Nordics. I have an agent that scans my emails and does the inverse filtering, suggests when I should take a look. This is because I get insane amount of cold inbound. But it also flags suspicious emails and uses network tools to find out info about the sender. It flagged that one as a NK account (I later confirmed it was already flagged on the watch list in various reddit channels). Everyone should be arming themselves with email filtering agents now. What I’m worried about is grandmas and grandpas and general ppl that are behind the tech curve.

▲Duwensatzaj an hour ago | parent | next [-]

Can you provide more information on your email filtering agent?

▲randomNumber7 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

How would the North Koreans profit from hacking grandma's PC?

▲thinkingemote 5 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

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▲armcat an hour ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It’s not the pc. It will be over the phone. They will call, use TTS with voice cloning to impersonate someone in their family, 5 seconds is all you need. Do a bank transfer to this address. Or click on this link we send you now over sms. You do a million of those.

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▲sevmardi 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Compromise the pc and use it a zombie for other ops. That's one example.

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