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A malicious fraud campaign dubbed "ERIAKOS" promotes more than 600 fake web shops through Facebook advertisements to steal visitors' personal and financial information. [...]
Aided by the emergence of generative artificial intelligence models, synthetic identity fraud has skyrocketed, and now accounts for a staggering 85% of all identity fraud cases. Anomaly detection algorithms analyze transaction data to flag irregularities indicative of synthetic identity fraud, continuously learning from new data and evolving fraud tactics to enhance effectiveness over time.
Details have emerged about a "Massive ad fraud operation" that leverages hundreds of apps on the Google Play Store to perform a host of nefarious activities. "Konfety represents a new form of fraud and obfuscation, in which threat actors operate 'evil twin' versions of 'decoy twin' apps available on major marketplaces," HUMAN's Satori Threat Intelligence Team said in a technical report shared with The Hacker News.
A large-scale fraud campaign with over 700 domain names is likely targeting Russian-speaking users looking to purchase tickets for the Summer Olympics in Paris. Researchers analyzing the campaign are calling it Ticket Heist and found that some of the domains were created in 2022 and the threat actor kept registering an average of 20 new ones every month.
Bots compose 42% of overall web traffic, and 65% of these bots are malicious, according to Akamai. Web scraping is not just a fraud or security problem, it is also a business problem.
The Singapore Police Force (SPF) has announced the extradition of two men from Malaysia for their alleged involvement in a mobile malware campaign targeting citizens in the country since June...
Trends in online fraud detection often act as the canary in the coal mine when it comes to understanding and combating the next generation of online scams, fraud and cybersecurity threats. As deepfakes and other AI-powered scams trick users into sharing their private information, a privacy-centric approach to fraud prevention - one that doesn't rely on sensitive user data to authenticate a user or transactions - makes good business and technological sense.
Today, the FBI issued a warning about scammers using fake remote job ads to steal cryptocurrency from job seekers across the United States while posing as recruiters for legitimate companies. The FBI says that red flags that should warn those targeted by these scams they're dealing with fraudsters coming for their money include being asked to make cryptocurrency payments to the employer as part of a work task, job descriptions involving simple tasks, and not being asked to provide references from previous jobs during the hiring process.
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Microsoft is calling attention to a Morocco-based cybercrime group dubbed Storm-0539 that's behind gift card fraud and theft through highly sophisticated email and SMS phishing attacks. "Their...