{"id":848683,"date":"2024-08-28T09:42:10","date_gmt":"2024-08-28T04:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=848683"},"modified":"2024-08-28T09:45:44","modified_gmt":"2024-08-28T04:15:44","slug":"scammers-exploit-pavel-durovs-arrest-with-fake-fundraisers-cybersecurity-experts-warn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2024\/08\/28\/scammers-exploit-pavel-durovs-arrest-with-fake-fundraisers-cybersecurity-experts-warn\/","title":{"rendered":"Scammers exploit Pavel Durov\u2019s arrest with fake fundraisers, cybersecurity experts warn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity experts at Kaspersky are sounding the alarm over a new wave of scams exploiting the recent arrest of Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram. The scamsters are leveraging the high-profile news surrounding Durov\u2019s arrest at a French airport to launch a sophisticated spam campaign. <\/p>\n<p>These scammers are distributing emails that falsely claim to be fundraising for Durov\u2019s legal defense and global awareness efforts. These scamsters pose as human rights organisations committed to Durov\u2019s cause, urging recipients to donate to cryptocurrency wallets under the pretext of supporting his release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cybersecurity experts at Kaspersky are sounding the alarm over a new wave of scams exploiting the recent arrest of Pavel Durov, the founder of Telegram. The scamsters are leveraging the high-profile news surrounding Durov\u2019s arrest at a French airport to launch a sophisticated spam campaign. These scammers are distributing emails that falsely claim to be fundraising for Durov\u2019s legal defense and global awareness efforts. These scamsters pose as human rights organisations committed to Durov\u2019s cause, urging recipients to donate to cryptocurrency wallets under the pretext of supporting his release.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-848683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=848683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/848683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=848683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=848683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=848683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}