This tactic relies on a simple weak point: trust. The malicious file is sent by someone you know, using their stolen account.

Meta said its WhatsApp username feature has multiple layers of defense against online scams. The Indian government has said ...

Spam accounts overwhelmed my database. Claude found the weaknesses, Codex wrote the fixes, and I deployed a new defense.

WhatsApp says its upcoming username feature includes multiple safeguards to prevent scams, impersonation, and unwanted messages after users raised privacy concerns.

Technology from American companies is being used to power a revolution in the scam industry, playing a key role in the industrialization and globalization of fraud in ways that have not been clear ...

Federal authorities are offering a reward of up to $10 million for information leading to the identification or location of a ...

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A threat actor has launched a campaign to clean up environments infected by the infamous TeamPCP hacking group and deploy its own malicious tools, SentinelOne reports. Active since late April, the ...

Email subscription bombing (also known as subscription flooding or email spam bombing) is an attack technique that overwhelms a target’s inbox with a high volume of benign but unwanted emails. The ...

A multi-pronged phishing campaign is targeting Spanish-speaking users in organizations across Latin America and Europe to deliver Windows banking trojans like Casbaneiro (aka Metamorfo) via another ...

Most major platforms have dealt with large-scale data leaks tied to weak or unprotected APIs. You've seen this play out with Facebook, X and even Dell. The pattern is always the same. A feature meant ...

SINGAPORE – A teenager who advertised vapes for sale has been sentenced to probation for 1½ years. Albee Chai Buo Yin, now 20, had pleaded guilty to one charge of possessing an imitation tobacco ...