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Comment by ghm2180

I am just dreading the day when a near simultaneous cyberattack on a high number of(more vulnerable like middle-lower income individuals) start in a DDoS fashion:

1. Credit histories will be(unlocked) used to file multiple credit applications and tax credits will be applied for.

2. Multiple Cell phones will be hijacked through Sim Hijacking or other zeroday attacks to make it very difficult to get back in.

3. A person's profile will be used to attack the most vulnerable things: - Their families will get fake calls to create confusion. - Their financial services will be frozen or worst weak 2fac auth ones will be compromised.

4. Deep fake image and videos will be created from compromised accounts to sow further mayhem.

This already happens in targeted and one startegy of teh other fashion. Imagine what one could do with a bit more compute and completed profiles and orchestrate this kind of terrible vengeance.

parent ghm2180 2 years ago

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