Security News

The ads look like they're been shared by friends, but they're really pod people who've hijacked accounts.

"I will insult people. And everyone will not care that it's not you." But it's social-disaster baloney!

Interesting story of an old-school remote-deposit capture fraud scam, wrapped up in a fake employment scam. Slashdot thread....

Spain has extradited 94 Taiwanese to China to face telephone and online fraud charges, drawing protest from Taiwan's government. The suspects arrived Friday morning at Beijing airport on a...

It was a well-oiled business, with Top Dogs fencing devices, forgers cooking up fake IDs with stolen PII, and runners ripping off phones.

Redmond kinda just shrugs after advertising systems sling scareware pop-ups at users Application makers are crying foul after some of their programs distributed via the Windows Store pops open...


The Threatpost team breaks down the strangest security stories this week - from Cartoon Network hacked to show stripper videos, to a church being scammed out of $1.75 million.

Crooks have developed "ingenious" new ways to drain user accounts and wallets, CipherTrace says, prodding regulators into action.

Duo also ask for two-year delay in celeb-studded ICO trial Two men accused of running a cryptocurrency scam have asked for the entire case to be thrown out – because prosecutors may have...