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The criminal gang behind the disruptive Colonial Pipeline ransomware hack says it is shutting down operations, but threat hunters believe the group will reemerge with a new name and new ransomware variants. Another potential complication with a DarkSide shutdown is the status of live, ongoing negotiations on ransomware payments and data decryption tools.

Apple's brand new AirTag product got hacked already. Why Dell patched a bunch of driver bugs going back more than a decade.

Trust Wallet and MetaMask wallet users are being targeted in ongoing and aggressive Twitter phishing attacks to steal cryptocurrency funds. MetaMask and Trust Wallet are mobile apps that let you create wallets to store, buy, send, and receive cryptocurrency and NFTs. When users launch MetaMask or Trust Wallet apps for the first time, the app prompts them to create a new wallet.

Twitter scammers are jumping on Elon Musk's hosting of Saturday Night Live to push cryptocurrency scams to steal people's Bitcoin, Ethereum, and Dogecoin. For the past year, we have been reporting how scammers have been raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars by promoting fake giveaway scams from well-known people or companies, such as Elon Musk, Tesla, and Gemini Exchange.

This home delivery scam arrives in an SMS that lures you to a website, but then instead of stealing your data directly via the phoney website, it sweet-talks you into installing an app. Watch directly on YouTube if the video won't play here.

Cybercriminals target Rogers customers with a new SMS phishing campaign pretending to be refunds for last week's Canada-wide wireless outage. Last week, Rogers suffered a massive outage throughout Canada, preventing users from accessing wireless voice and data services.

UK consumer watchdog Which? has found that ad giants Google and Facebook are failing to remove online scam ads even after victims report them. A third of those reporting scam ads to Google found the same offending ads still present, while the figure was a quarter for antisocial media site Facebook.

As the use of cryptocurrency increases, so does the risk of being a target for scammers. Tom Merritt offers five tips for defending against cryptocurrency scams.

As the use of cryptocurrency increases, so does the risk of being a target for scammers. Tom Merritt offers five tips for defending against cryptocurrency scams.

A large-scale scam campaign targeting Facebook Messenger users all over the world has been detected by Group-IB. Digital Risk Protection analysts have found evidence proving that users in over 80 countries in Europe, Asia, the MEA region, North and South America might have been affected. In April, the number of Facebook posts inviting users to install "The latest Messenger update" reached 5,700.