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CrowdStrike Warns of Phishing Scam Targeting Job Seekers with XMRig Cryptominer
2025-01-10 09:09

Cybersecurity company CrowdStrike is alerting of a phishing campaign that exploits its own branding to distribute a cryptocurrency miner that's disguised as an employee CRM application as part of...

Scams Based on Fake Google Emails
2024-12-26 16:09

Scammers are hacking Google Forms to send email to victims that come from google.com. Brian Krebs reports on the effects. Boing Boing post.

AI-driven scams are about to get a lot more convincing
2024-12-24 05:30

McAfee’s predictions for 2025 highlight emerging threats that consumers may encounter as cybercriminals exploit advanced AI technology. From hyper-realistic deepfakes and live video scams to...

Google Chrome uses AI to analyze pages in new scam detection feature
2024-12-20 21:31

Google is using artificial intelligence to power a new Chrome scam protection feature that analyzes brands and the intent of pages as you browse the web. [...]

Google says new scam protection feature in Chrome uses AI
2024-12-20 21:31

Google is planning to use "AI" in Chrome to detect scams when you browse random web pages. [...]

INTERPOL Pushes for "Romance Baiting" to Replace "Pig Butchering" in Scam Discourse
2024-12-18 09:10

INTERPOL is calling for a linguistic shift that aims to put to an end to the term "pig butchering," instead advocating for the use of "romance baiting" to refer to online scams where victims are...

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...