Here you will find all the articles with the tag: Scam.
Google News contains ads that look like news stories, but are actually scams. Cybercriminals thus try to fool users with fake versions of newspapers. It shows that Google is nowhere near keeping up with its own format, while placing the responsibility on others. Research by Dutch news organizati... Read more
4 months ago
Fraud group 'Fangxiao' built a network of 42,000 sites that impersonate well-known businesses. The network was designed to steer victims to websites pushing adware. Fangxiao uses fake domains to generate website traffic and advertising revenue for its own websites and the websites of customers w... Read more
1 year ago
Researchers at McAfee revealed a rare malware application in five Chrome extensions with 1.4 million downloads. Scammers spread the extensions to dupe e-commerce websites. The method is uncommon. The malicious extensions lie in wait for the moment an infected user navigates to an e-commerce webs... Read more
2 years ago
A new generation of Android scamware employs several tricks to register users to costly services. According to Microsoft, Android malware developers have stepped up their billing fraud games with applications that disable WiFi connections, covertly subscribe individuals to costly wireless servic... Read more
2 years ago
Organized cybercrime is growing. Group-IB identified 390 professional scam groups in the past year, up 350 percent from 2020. Cybercriminals don't have to penetrate networks or endpoints to be successful. According to security research by Group-IB, scamming was the most common form of cybercrime... Read more
2 years ago
According to U.S. authorities, a former Apple Inc employee has been charged with scamming the iPhone manufacturer out of more than $10 million in a string of scams. According to documents with the federal court in San Jose, California, Dhirendra Prasad faces five felony charges for defrauding Ap... Read more
2 years ago
Email scammers have impersonated over 7000 CEOs since the COVID-19 pandemic hit. The COVID-19 emergency has unleashed another epidemic, namely a sudden rise in the impersonation of CEOs through business email compromise (BEC) attacks. A BEC attack allows a hacker to impersonate a company execut... Read more
4 years ago
Twitter accounts of a large group of celebrities were hacked by cryptocurrency scammers. Among the victims were Elon Musk, Bill Gates, Barack Obama, Jeff Bezos and presidential candidate Joe Biden. Not only celebrities fell victim to these hacks, but accounts of large companies such as Apple and... Read more
4 years ago
Web hosting provider and domain registration company GoDaddy has taken over 15,000 subdomains offline. The subdomains were used as part of a spam operation, which tempted users to come to web pages selling fake products. Users received a spam mail promoting a product, writes ZDNet. If a user clicks... Read more
5 years ago
An Australian woman was arrested after it turned out that she had stolen no less than 100,000 tokens of cryptovaluta ripple. The tokens had a combined value of almost half a million Australian dollars at the time they were stolen. The 23-year-old woman was arrested on Thursday morning. The ZDNet is ... Read more
6 years ago
