scammers

Attackers use government news to lure out data. Scammers in the UK have begun to send messages en masse to the elderly with promises of help to pay for heating. The British police and the National Fraud Action Fraud Center have issued an official warning about the increasing number of cases of...

In a new scheme of deception, companies voluntarily give data to criminals. The FBI has issued a warning to US companies about a new scheme of scammers who use Emergency Data Requests to steal personal information. Using hacked email addresses of government agencies, fraudsters demand that...

The injured widow discovered the write-offs six months after the death of her husband. Moscow resident Anatoly died in the spring of 2024. However, only six months later, his widow discovered that 1,271,700 rubles had been debited from her husband's bank account. As it turned out, the...

A false sense of security opens the door to new attacks. Cybersecurity experts have reported a surge in phishing pages created with the Webflow website builder. According to Netskope, from April to September 2024, traffic to Webflow phishing pages increased tenfold. The attacks covered more...

Fraudsters lost 13 million after Durov's statement. The scammers involved in the Mammoth scheme announced their abandonment of Telegram after the innovations announced by Pavel Durov and began the transition to their own platforms. On September 23, 2024, Durov published a post in which he said...

Among the detainees was a ghost without a residence permit and with great connections. Dutch law enforcement agencies conducted a series of raids and arrested four people suspected of selling personal data through Telegram groups. During the operation, data storage devices and firearms were...

In Thailand, a married couple is accused of fraud for selling fake gold jewelry through social media to hundreds of buyers. A large-scale scandal involving online sales fraud has erupted in Thailand, according to the Bangkok Post. At the center of the accusations was a married couple who...

The Glusk District Department of the Investigative Committee opened a criminal case on fraud on an especially large scale. According to the investigation, in June of this year, a 61-year-old resident of Glusk received a phone call in a messenger. The caller introduced herself as an employee of...

Attackers use AI-based software to bypass strict KYC measures on cryptocurrency exchanges. This is stated in a report by security firm Cato Networks. The tool, called ProKYC, demonstrates a "new level of sophistication" in crypto fraud. It represents a significant step up from the older methods...

Federal agencies have uncovered criminal schemes that target vulnerable populations and good-natured residents. U.S. government agencies have warned residents of a scam related to Hurricanes Helen and Milton, which aims to steal relief funds and sensitive data. At the end of September...

The company exposes an attempt at a large-scale scam with a fake coin. On the evening of October 4, visitors to the Lego website could notice an unusual banner with the image of gold coins and the company's logo, which announced that the Lego coin was now officially on sale. The banner text...

The invisible thief walked around the app store for 5 months. The Check Point Research (CPR) team has discovered a malicious cryptodrainer app on Google Play designed to steal cryptocurrency. This is the first time that the drainer is focused exclusively on mobile devices. The app used...

Authorities have confiscated more than $6 million worth of cryptocurrency from wallets linked to Southeast Asian scammers targeting U.S. citizens through trust investment schemes. On September 26, the U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia reported that "one or more people" had...

The police sent an indictment against three defendants to court - the defendants face up to 12 years in prison with confiscation of property for stealing money using phishing. This was reported in the press service of the Main Directorate of the National Police of Ukraine in the Odessa region...

How one letter deprived Tennessee schools of the social program. In Tennessee, a school district has lost more than $3 million to fraudsters. In March, an employee of the Johnson School District's Department of Finance received a letter that he believed to be an official request from Pearson, a...

According to it, the professor gave almost 6 million rubles to unknown persons. At the end of August, an unknown person wrote to the 86-year-old doctor of physical and technical sciences of Moscow State University, Yuri Pirogov, who introduced himself as the rector of the university. Pirogov...

How simple gullibility can cost you all your savings. Gen recently published its Q2 2024 Cyber Threat Report, highlighting the rapid growth of AI-based attacks. Experts warn that scammers are increasingly resorting to generative AI to create convincing fakes of voices, images, and videos...

Two residents of Ukraine suspected of fraud were detained, the State Police reported yesterday. According to law enforcement estimates, they lured about 400,000 euros from Latvians. Specialization - deception of the elderly In August, the police began to receive numerous complaints from Riga...

Anti-fraud solutions can be a problem for subscribers. Due to the growth of fraudulent schemes, telecom operators began to implement solutions to protect subscribers from repeated fraudulent calls. These solutions allow you to either prevent an unwanted call or break the connection during a...

In six months, the fraudsters have already managed to enrich themselves by $65 million. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has published alarming data on the growth of financial losses of citizens due to fraud using bitcoin ATMs. In 2023, the amount of damage exceeded $110 million, which is...