scammers

Criminals have found an insidious way to eliminate competitors. 404 Media discovered an unusual method of using content moderation tools: scammers deliberately place CSAM images on Discord servers in order to block their competitors servers. According to 404 Media, such actions differ from...

The gang operated mainly in the province of Castile and Leon. The attackers were detained during the operation of regional law enforcement agencies. Employees of the Spanish Civil Guard conducted an operation, during which they arrested three people for Internet fraud. Due to the actions of...

An investigator of the Investigative Department of the Department of Internal Affairs for the VAO GU of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in Moscow has completed the investigation of a criminal case on the grounds of a crime under Part 4 of Article 159 of the Criminal Code of the...

The cyber police of the Ivano-Frankivsk region stopped the activities of a group of individuals who hacked the accounts of users of a popular social network and sent messages on their behalf asking them to borrow money: more than a million hryvnias of cash were seized from them. Law enforcement...

During Ramadan, Resecurity recorded a significant increase in the number of fraudulent activities and scams, coinciding with an increase in retail and online transactions. Cybercriminals are particularly active in the Middle East, especially in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, where consumer...

The cyber police of the Dnipropetrovsk region, together with the investigators of the regional central board under the procedural guidance of the Dnipropetrovsk Regional Prosecutor's Office, stopped the activities of an organized criminal group, which consisted of eight participants. The deal...

How a social network sends you to a site that you don't want to go to. Users of the X social network face an unexpected problem: clicking on external links in posts, they do not get to the specified sites, but to completely different resources. The situation raised concerns after it was...

Hello! Crypt, crypt... so many incomprehensible things! Now we will tell you about the signs of a scam on it, so that those who work on this topic understand the vulnerabilities and refine them. 1. Scammers often “parasitize” on a new and incomprehensible topic for many Scammers actively pursue...

Hello! For the most part, scammers are those who have not been able to achieve any success in what he and his entourage do. In this article, I will talk about what these animals breathe and how to distinguish them from humans. Signs of cheating and cheating. How do I conduct transactions? As...

Deceived was a woman who had previously conducted conversations on how not to become a victim of fraudsters The 51-year-old director of one of Ulan-Ude schools became the victim of swindlers. She transferred more than 2 million 700 thousand rubles to unknown people. As reported in the press...

The PyPI platform has once again become a convenient channel for distributing malicious code. In the Python Package Index (PyPI) repository, seven packages designed to steal BIP39 mnemonic phrases used to recover private keys of cryptocurrency wallets were recently discovered. The operation...

Five attackers obtained bank card data from citizens using phishing links that copied the interface of popular Internet services. 44 people were identified as victims of the actions of intruders. The defendants face up to twelve years behind bars. The fraudsters were exposed by the cyber police...

Cyber police of the Odessa region, together with investigators of the investigation department of the GUNP in the Odessa region, under the procedural guidance of the Odessa Regional Prosecutor's Office, exposed two people who embezzled funds of citizens under the pretext of selling quadrocopters...

The investigative unit of the Investigative Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Lipetsk region opened a criminal case under Part 2 of Article 187 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation against two local residents. During preliminary investigation it is...

How to feed yourself if you don't have an audience, but you do have a keyboard. A recent study by BleepingComputer uncovered a campaign to manage a network of more than 60 sites that mimic the largest media resources, such as the BBC, CNBC, CNN, etc. The main activity of the campaign is to...

A Minsk resident has twice become a victim of cyber-bullies. For the first time, the victim was promised quick and easy earnings on the Internet, and for the second time - the return of stolen funds. BelTA learned this from the police department of the Minsk City Executive Committee. The...

Two Chinese citizens were found guilty of transferring more than 5,000 fake iPhones (worth more than $ 3 million) to Apple in order to replace them with real devices. Now scammers face up to 20 years in prison. The criminal scheme was based on the fact that Apple provides users with a one-year...

The victim of cryptocurrency scammers was a 19-year-old student from Belgorod. Under the pretext of earning money on investments in digital assets, fraudsters lured her out of more than 4.5 million rubles. The "divorce" scheme turned out to be standard ― the girl was offered a quick income on...

The new scheme of deception is aimed at relatives of the deceased. Fraudulent schemes are gaining momentum on the social network Facebook, offering relatives and friends of the deceased to view live broadcasts of funeral ceremonies. According to an investigation by the 404 Media agency...

The investigative unit of the Main Investigation Department of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Altai Territory has completed the investigation of a criminal case initiated on the fact of fraud and illegal turnover of payment funds, in which two residents...