Security News

New Investment Scam Leverages AI, Social Media Ads to Target Victims Worldwide
2024-12-16 10:17

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new kind of investment scam that leverages a combination of social media malvertising, company-branded posts, and artificial intelligence (AI)...

FTC warns of online task job scams hooking victims like gambling
2024-12-13 19:51

The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warns about a significant rise in gambling-like online job scams, known as "task scams," that draw people into earning cash through repetitive tasks, with the...

North Korea's fake IT worker scam hauled in at least $88M over six years
2024-12-13 00:32

DoJ thinks it's found the folks that ran it, and some of the 'IT warriors' sent out to fleece employers North Korea's fake IT worker scams netted the hermit kingdom $88 million over six years,...

Fake Recruiters Distribute Banking Trojan via Malicious Apps in Phishing Scam
2024-12-10 14:13

Cybersecurity researchers have shed light on a sophisticated mobile phishing (aka mishing) campaign that's designed to distribute an updated version of the Antidot banking trojan. "The attackers...

Meta removes over 2 million accounts pushing pig butchering scams
2024-11-24 16:19

Meta announced that it has taken down 2 million accounts across its platforms since the beginning of the year that are linked to pig butchering and other scams. [...]

Bangkok busts SMS Blaster sending 1 million scam texts from a van
2024-11-24 15:09

The Thai police, working together with Thailand's largest telecommunications service provider, Advanced Info Service (AIS), located and busted the Chinese operators of an SMS blaster device that...

North Korean Hackers Steal $10M with AI-Driven Scams and Malware on LinkedIn
2024-11-23 11:53

The North Korea-linked threat actor known as Sapphire Sleet is estimated to have stolen more than $10 million worth of cryptocurrency as part of social engineering campaigns orchestrated over a...

Now BlueSky hit with crypto scams as it crosses 20 million users
2024-11-21 10:28

As users are flocking to BlueSky from social media platforms like X/Twitter, so are threat actors. BleepingComputer has spotted cryptocurrency scams popping up on BlueSky just as the decentralized...

Google Warns of Rising Cloaking Scams, AI-Driven Fraud, and Crypto Schemes
2024-11-14 14:00

Google has revealed that bad actors are leveraging techniques like landing page cloaking to conduct scams by impersonating legitimate sites. "Cloaking is specifically designed to prevent...

Google launches on-device AI to alert Android users of scam calls in real-time
2024-11-14 13:01

Google has announced new security features for Android that provide real-time protection against scams and harmful apps. These features, powered by advanced on-device AI, enhance user safety...