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ThreatMetrix released new cybercrime insights from the first half of 2018, revealing a sharp rise in fraud attack levels on mobile transactions. As consumer behavior increasingly embraces mobile...

When I said I have $2m in the bank... Bouxtie had everything you can dream of in a Silicon Valley startup. A stupid name (it's pronounced "bow-tie"), a vastly over-confident CEO with a story,...

A new tool draws links between people under investigation: emails, who was cc'ed, and those quieter messages where nobody at all was cc'ed.

The campaign is believed to bring in close to $22,000 per month for bad actors.

LegalShield announced that IDShield has unveiled two new services designed to help protect members from the risk of identity theft. IDShield now can reduce mail and phone solicitations, lowering...

A cryptocurrency investor is suing AT&T because criminals were able to empty his accounts through SIM swap fraud (aka account port out fraud), even though he had already asked for additional...

Google is expanding its vulnerability reward program again: the company wants to be notified about techniques that allow third parties to successfully bypass their abuse, fraud, and spam systems....

Vulnerabilities in mPOS (mobile point-of-sale) machines could allow malicious merchants to defraud customers and attackers to steal payment card data, Positive Technologies researchers have found....

Mikhail Malykhin's Schemes Drove Healthcare Benefits Firm Out of BusinessRussian national Mikhail Malykhin, who was illegally residing in the U.S., has received a 70-month prison sentence after...

There are some good lessons in this article on financial fraud: That's how we got it so wrong. We were looking for incidental breaches of technical regulations, not systematic crime. And the thing...