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Alisa Stern, Shutterstock / Inside Creative House - In-House Art There’s a lot of hype around AI, and just as much fear. But anxiety over pie-in-the-sky scenarios involving sentient robots and supercomputers obfuscates the real threats that already exist, like AI-assisted scams. Scammers, hackers, and other malicious actors use AI in many ways, but the…

Are You Being ‘Smished’? Here’s How To Spot The Latest Texting Scam That text message about your package could be a scamOne of the biggest scams you need to watch out for is coming from your phone. In “smishing” ― a term that combines “SMS” and “phishing” ― bad actors try to get your personal and...

Illustration: Pete Reynolds/The Observer Police struggle to catch online fraudsters, often operating from overseas, but now a new breed of amateurs are taking matters into their own hands. Three to…

The Trends in Security Digital Identities report from the Identity Defined Security Alliance (IDSA) … [+]getty Identity is at the core of cybersecurity. Digital identities, such as usernames …

Illustration: Yazmin Monet Butcher In 2014, I bought 25,000 dogecoin as a joke. By 2021, it was briefly worth over $17,000. Problem was, I couldn’t remember the password. Determined to get my coins…

We’re all targeted by scam calls and spam emails, but one virtual vigilante decided to turn the tables by hacking the hackers. Jim Browning is not his real name, rather a secret identity. Working i…

  In early March, a 17-year-old high school senior I’ll call Ethan got a text message from Ursinus College, a small, private liberal arts school located about 45 minutes outside of Philadelphia. It…

When Robyn Mathis, a 41-year-old food production plant worker from Brunswick, Georgia, stepped off a flight to Philadelphia last June, she expected an easy passage to her destination. She was set t…

Police struggle to catch online fraudsters, often operating from overseas, but now a new breed of amateurs are taking matters into their own hands. Three to four days a week, for one or two hours a…

What’s the impact on digital fraud as countries ease COVID-19 lockdown restrictions? We recently analyzed billions of transactions in our flagship identity proofing, risk-based authentication and f…

Bitcoin scams have followed the ebb and flow of the cryptocurrency’s price patterns. As Bitcoin price crested, the number and frequency of such scams increased and more criminals used it for transa…

Bank of America inadvertently sent more than 3.2 million email notifications to Merrill Lynch Wealth Management clients and private banking clients on Tuesday. The root cause of the erroneous emails sent to clients had not been determined as of Tuesday morning, according to an internal memo reviewed by Business Insider.

Antonio Guillem/Shutterstock Scam calls using AI to mimic voices of people you might know are being used to exploit unsuspecting members of the public. These calls use what’s known as generative AI…

(Photo Illustration by Scott Olson/Getty Images)..Getty Images Having been hit by any number of money scams, the swindles that rope people in with a fake IRS connection are probably the slimiest. T…

Photo illustration by Natalie Matthews-Ramo/Slate. Photo by Utkarxh Rathore/Unsplash. One day, B.J. Mendelson was playing Roblox with his school-aged nieces when suddenly, he heard a stranger’s voi…

A popular smartphone app used to conduct foreign exchange transactions known as MetaTrader (or MT4 or MT5, depending on the version), was quietly removed from Apple’s App Store last Friday. As of t…

The Treasury Department on Monday sanctioned a cryptocurrency firm with ties to a North Korea state-sponsored hacking group for allegedly facilitating malicious laundering—marking the latest retali…

The official Discord channel of the NFT marketplace OpenSea was recently infiltrated by cybercriminals who used it to distribute a phishing link. According to The Verge, a bot in the channel made a…

A new, fast-spreading Covid-19 variant dubbed omicron has sent bitcoin, cryptocurrency and traditional markets into meltdown this week, with investors being warned to “be on guard.” The…

Russian mobsters, Chinese hackers and Nigerian scammers have used stolen identities to plunder tens of billions of dollars in pandemic aid, officials say. From a report: In June, the FBI got a warr…

At least $63 billion in improper payments, much of it fraud, have been distributed by the Federal government since the pandemic struck in March 2020.
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Your credit card information can be stolen right under your nose without the actual card leaving your possession. Unfortunately, most victims of this type of credit card theft don’t what’s ha…

Performing an initial investigation to follow the funds related to the Twitter TWTR hack that happened on July 15 to Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Barack Obama, Joe Biden, Kanye West, Bill Gates and numerous other celebrities and executives of large technology companies, it is evident the many of those funds already hit reputable exchanges that might freeze the funds.