New scam on WhatsApp: criminals pose as police to steal data The attackers, impersonating police officers, claim that the victim's email address is under investigation, so they request personal information and bank passwords. Cybercriminals do not rest even in times of pandemic. The National Police has detected a new type of scam through the WhatsApp messaging application, through which criminals pose as National Police agents to steal the credentials of their victims. This was explained this Tuesday by the chief commissioner of the National Police, José García Molina, during the telematic press conference from La Moncloa after yesterday's daily meeting of the Coronavirus Technical Management Committee. Specifically, as detailed by José García Molina, criminals sent messages randomly through the «app», identifying the user's profile with a National Police shield. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------...
Facebook prohibits the publication of events against the quarantine for coronavirus The social network has already removed "posts" promoting popular protests against confinement in the states of Nebraska, California, and New Jersey. Facebook has taken several measures aimed at controlling the publications that are made within the platform about the coronavirus pandemic. If a few days ago the social network of Mark Zuckerberg warned that all the «posts» in which harmful health claims were made would be eliminated, now it has determined to end calls against the social containment measures implemented by governments. These kinds of protests are currently being especially popular in the United States, where the Covid-19 has been hitting hard for weeks. As reported by the "NBC", Facebook already eliminated yesterday Monday events announcing street protests in the states of California, Nebraska or New Jersey after having held talks with the governments of ea...