Online Holiday Scams are Upon Us
Scammers are setting up fake online shops that impersonate legitimate ones. The perpetrators ensure that these stores are easy to find while looking for the original ones. click here to read full Article Read...
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"Free Steam game" scams on TikTok are Among Us
The scammers are claiming to offer up free versions of the incredibly popular Among Us game. However, they also claim to have special hacked versions up for grabs that allow players to cheat. click...
Europol Nabs 106 Italian Mafia Members for SIM Swapping, BEC Scams, Phishing
The suspects defrauded hundreds of victims through phishing attacks and other types of online fraud before laundering the money through a wide network of money mules and shell companies. click here to read full...
FBI: $113 million lost to online romance scams this year
The scammers behind this type of online fraud trend (also known as confidence fraud) use fake online identities to gain potential victims’ trust on dating or social media platforms. click here to read full...
We Could Start Seeing Some Hurricane Ida-related Investment Scams
People should be wary to ask anyone approaching them with an investment opportunity if they’re licensed and if their investment is registered with the SEC or with a state. click here to read full...
Cryptocurrency payments to scams outpace ransomware jackpots in Eastern Europe, Chainalysis finds
Between December 2019 and August 2021, users sent over $1.5 billion worth of bitcoin to Finiko, a Russia-based Ponzi-scheme whose founders are under arrest or have fled Russia. click here to read full Article...
US military personnel defrauded into losing $822m through scams
The researchers examined data compiled by the US FTC. They discovered that $484.4 million was lost by military families and reservists, followed by veterans and retirees whose financial damages account for 35% of all...
DeFi scams go from zero to $129 million in a year to become top financial hack
Atlas VPN analyzed financial hacks over the last two-and-a-half years and found that DeFi hacks represent 76% of all major hacks for the first half of 2021 as compared to 25% of the total...
Google Docs Scams Still Pose a Threat
In research presented at the Defcon security conference this month, a researcher found workarounds that attackers could potentially use to get past Google’s enhanced Workspace protections. click here to read full Article Read more...
What is Vishing and How Can You Avoid Phone Call Scams? by Peter Baltazar
The world has become a dangerous place with the ever-evolving forms of cyberattacks. With the advancement in security technologies, the internet has become safer, but cybercriminals are also advancing themselves to find one or...
Malicious Actors Employ Impersonation Scams to Infect Users with Flubot Malware
Malicious hackers are impersonating delivery services and sending phishing text messages to Britons to trick them into downloading Flubot malware, according to UK mobile network Three. click here to read full Article Read more...
FTC Issued a Warning About Phishing Scams Involving Unemployment Benefits
Americans should be skeptical of text messages appearing to be from their state workforce agency, according to the Federal Trade Commission. Following the discovery of an SMS-based phishing effort targeting users of unemployment...
Vigilance Needed: Financial Services Firms Fight Imposter Scams
The warning, issued by the FBI and the SEC’s Office of Investor Education and Advocacy (OIEA) last week comes on the heels of a similar warning via FINRA about the rise in imposter websites....
Scam-baiting YouTube channel Tech Support Scams taken offline by tech support scam
The Tech Support Scams YouTube channel has been erased from existence as host and creator Jim Browning fell victim to a tech support scam that convinced him to secure his account – by deleting...
Hackers Exploit the COVID-19 Pandemic for Cyber Scams
While the world is busy fighting the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19), cyber attackers are misusing this global crisis for their phishing scams, ransomware attacks, and other purposes. click here to read full Article Read more...
Global Scamdemic: Scams Become Number One Online Crime
According to Group-IB, fraud accounts for 73% of all online attacks. 56% are scams that result in the victims disclosing sensitive data and 17% are phishing attacks involving theft of payment details. click here...