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parth
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parth
@parth220
Joined January 2017
- Last night, I was targeted for a sophisticated phishing attack on my Apple ID. This was a high effort concentrated attempt at me. Other founders are being targeted by the same group/attack, so Iโm sharing what happened for visibility. ๐งตย Hereโs how it went down:
- Replying to @parth220Other founder friends of mine have also been targeted by this attack. Fortunately neither of them fell victim for it, but Iโm sharing to signal boost to other folks in SVโฆ Stay safe out there!
- Replying to @sama"At the end of a cycle all beings, O son of Kunti, enter into My prakriti, and at the beginning of a cycle I generate them again." Bhagvad Gita 9.7
- Immortalizing the Sanskrit canon ๐turned tonightโs sanskrit reading night into sanskrit ocr reading night! we read a bunch of papers on synthetic data, multimodal architecture, image augmentation, & cross-linguistic generalization to identify the best methods for training a sanskrit ocr model
- Replying to @parth220The attackers made a led high effort focused attack on me, using OSINT data from People Data Labs and caller ID spoofing. First, around 6:36pm yesterday all of my Apple devices started blowing up with Reset Password notifications. Because these are Apple system level alerts,
- Replying to @parth220About 15 minutes later, they call me on my number, using Caller ID spoofing of the official Apple Support phone line (1 (800) 275-2273). They really emphasized this detail to win trust from the victim. I was obviously still on guard, so I asked them to validate a ton of
- Replying to @parth220Thankfully I was tipped off that they used my data from People Data Labs in real time to validate a ton of information. Despite correctly stating all of my data, the phishers thought my name was Anthony S. ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ The reason I caught it is because, Iโve queried myself on
- Replying to @soumithchintala and @SkyLi0nTheyโre not even trimming the fat, theyโre straight up trimming the nervous system
- Replying to @parth220Finally the last thing they asked for was an OTP that explicitly says โDonโt share it with anyoneโ. Hitting approve in the first reset notification spam attack OR sharing this code wouldโve pwned me.
- Itโs time to build (a startup).
Itโs time to build (a family). - When you're so good that the official docs just recommend using you for 95% of use cases @expo
