I just got a credit card offer in the mail. I'm not in the market for a new card but figured I'd check the terms.

Just WHAT kind of person do they think I am that they'd have a chance of binding me to this contract!?

$895 for an annual fee is atrocious. They must think I'm rich and spend lots of money and not the type of person who looks at the cents per ounce for grocery store staples.

#CreditCard #Finance

AI brands as bait: How threat actors are using the AI hype in social engineering

Threat actors are increasingly leveraging the global interest in artificial intelligence by impersonating popular AI platforms such as ChatGPT, Copilot, DeepSeek, and Claude in social engineering campaigns. These operations span phishing attacks, malvertising, and search engine optimization-driven tactics that ultimately lead to credential theft, financial fraud, or malware infections. Observed campaigns include ChatGPT-themed phishing collecting credit card data targeting South Africa, Claude-themed adversary-in-the-middle attacks harvesting credentials and access tokens, malvertising campaigns distributing Vidar stealer through fake AI plugin downloads, and fraudulent DeepSeek V4 installers on GitHub. The initial access broker Storm-3075 has been identified employing AI-themed malvertising, while the financially motivated actor Fox Tempest provides malware-signing-as-a-service to enhance payload legitimacy. These campaigns combine traditional social engineering tactics with AI branding to improve success...

Pulse ID: 6a2719a4165e6fddbfbf8f91
Pulse Link: https://otx.alienvault.com/pulse/6a2719a4165e6fddbfbf8f91
Pulse Author: AlienVault
Created: 2026-06-08 19:36:04

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#AdversaryInTheMiddle #Africa #ChatGPT #CreditCard #CyberSecurity #FinancialFraud #GitHub #ICS #InfoSec #Mac #Malvertising #Malware #OTX #OpenThreatExchange #Phishing #RAT #SocialEngineering #Vidar #bot #AlienVault

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#FOSS #Android #OpenSource #creditcard #Privacy #Security #oss #identity

#CreditCard theft campaign abuses #Stripe to host stolen payment info

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/credit-card-theft-campaign-abuses-stripe-to-host-stolen-payment-info/

#cybersecurity #Magecart #ecommerce #malware #finance #PersonalFinance

Kinda curious what you need to do to get a #creditcard with an #APR below 20% at this point. I've always had good credit, and when I got my first card, my APR was 9-10%. I remember my mom's was 4%. But for years now, I've been sent offer after offer for 26-34%. Just completely insane, #gangster #loan shark rates that should definitely not be #legal.

#finance #law

Error 524 Decoy: Unmasking a Global Smishing Operation Hiding Behind Error Pages

A sophisticated smishing and phishing operation active since the second half of 2025 has impersonated over 267 brands across 72 countries, with particular concentration in Latin America. The campaign generated 4,389 phishing domain instances, with Mexico accounting for 1,851 cases. Telecommunications is the most targeted sector with 1,754 instances, followed by financial services and consumer rewards programs. The operation employs fake Cloudflare error pages as decoys, revealing malicious content only to victims matching specific geofencing and mobile device criteria. Data exfiltration occurs through encrypted WebSocket channels using binary encoded payloads. Approximately 30% of infrastructure is hosted on Tencent Cloud and Alibaba US servers, fronted by Cloudflare to mask hosting IPs. The attack chain progresses from SMS lures through progressive credential harvesting, ultimately capturing complete credit card details including CVV codes.

Pulse ID: 6a20299f34e4961fdaff1615
Pulse Link: https://otx.alienvault.com/pulse/6a20299f34e4961fdaff1615
Pulse Author: AlienVault
Created: 2026-06-03 13:18:23

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#Cloud #CredentialHarvesting #CreditCard #CyberSecurity #InfoSec #LatinAmerica #Mexico #OTX #OpenThreatExchange #Phishing #RAT #SMS #Smishing #Telecom #Telecommunication #bot #AlienVault