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Be extra careful about downloading things from your email, FBI warns

Meanwhile … Nintendo Warns of Phishing Attack Mimics Company Email Address

🤷‍♀️ What now?: “Extra step” to downloading anything from your email is to reconfirm with the sender of the email even though the email indeed says it’s from the sender you’re expecting.

LOOK OUT ◉_◉ : Fake product listings on real shopping sites lead to stolen payment information

LOOK OUT ◉_◉ : Over Half of US County Websites “Could Be Spoofed”

📰 Headline Highlights

• Russia behind latest election disinformation video, US intel agencies say

• UnitedHealth says Change Healthcare hack affects over 100 million, the largest-ever US healthcare data breach

• Delta sues CrowdStrike over software update that prompted mass flight disruptions

• Wiz CEO says company was targeted with deepfake attack that used his voice

• Banks and regulators warn of rise in ‘quishing’ QR code scams

• Texas county says 47,000 had SSNs, medical treatment info leaked during May cyberattack

• Canada Says Chinese Reconnaissance Scans Targeting Government Organizations

• School ransomware attacks are on the rise. What can districts do?

• Cyber insecurity now impacts the health and wellness of Americans. We need a clearer treatment plan.

• California court suffering from tech outages after cyberattack

• Federal agency investigating how Meta uses consumer financial data for advertising

• Georgia official asks social media sites to take down Russian disinformation video

In other news, CISA Launches First International Cybersecurity Plan

MUST READ: DisMis: Explore our 3-part series on election propaganda.

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It’s been quite a challenge curating the news of the week and election + shopping season. But writing this newsletter helps us keep things in perspective and somehow we feel like we know where and how things are going.

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This is a big week for us as we were informed by the IRS that we now have 501(C)(3) status. Probably the biggest milestone that a nonprofit can have and it was an exhilarating ride. One of the perks of 501(C)(3) that may be relevant to our readers is that donations to Hexagon Center is now tax deductible. Wink. Wink.

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Glossary/Legend:

• Ransomware - A type of malware that locks or encrypts a victim's files and demands a ransom payment to unlock and decrypt them. Ransomware can infect a variety of devices, including computers, smartphones, printers, and more.

• Deepfake - A video or audio of a person in which their face or body has been digitally altered so that they appear to be someone else, typically used maliciously or to spread false information.

• Phishing - The fraudulent practice of sending emails or other messages purporting to be from reputable companies in order to induce individuals to reveal personal information, such as passwords and credit card numbers.

• Cookies - A packet of data sent by a web server to a browser, which is returned by the browser each time it subsequently accesses the same server, used to identify the user or track their access to the server.

• Spoof - A cybercrime where someone or something pretends to be a trusted source to gain access to personal information, money, or data. Spoofing can take many forms.

• Quishing - A type of phishing attack that uses QR codes to trick people into visiting malicious websites.

• QR stands for "Quick Response" - Refers to a two-dimensional barcode that can be scanned by a smartphone's camera to access information.

• 501(C)(3) - Organizations described in section 501(C)(3) are commonly referred to as charitable organizations, are eligible to receive tax-deductible contributions in accordance with Code section 170.

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