There are far too many people around the world creating clever ways to separate you from your money. In most of these scenarios, the old saying, “If it sounds too good to be true, it probably isn’t,” rings true. Many scams rely on the victim either being overly trusting or greedy, which makes healthy skepticism…

Cryptocurrency is one of the most popular investments of the past few years. The crypto market is booming, with billions of dollars traded and bought quarterly. However, despite this increase in popularity, the crypto industry is not without its fair share of scams. Coinbase, one of the world’s largest and oldest cryptocurrency exchanges, has come…

Article by Emily Rella Phishing attempts are getting more advanced, with hackers and cybercriminals making their ploys so believable that even the most cautious are getting scammed. One of the latest schemes is to send an SMS text message to people’s phones pretending to be a bank or a company in order to trick people into…

Hackers from China, North Korea, Iran, and Turkey are routinely targeting U.S. journalists and media for their state-aligned purposes, according to a report by Proofpoint, a Sunnyvale based enterprise cybersecurity company. The media and journalists have been easy targets of cyber activities “for espionage or to gain key insights into the inner workings of another…

Facebook parent Meta Platforms said on Tuesday it had filed a joint lawsuit with digital banking company Chime against two Nigeria-based individuals who engaged in phishing attacks to deceive people and gain access to their online financial accounts. The lawsuit, which is the first joint complaint between Meta and a financial services company, alleged that…

While waiting for your last holiday purchase to arrive, it may be tempting to open a text inviting you to check new tracking information. Don’t do it, warns Florida’s Attorney General Ashley Moody, unless you’re sure the text really did come from your shipper. Scam “robotexts” about package shipping updates are a common way crooks…

While waiting for your last holiday purchase to arrive, it may be tempting to open a text inviting you to check new tracking information. Don’t do it, warns Florida’s Attorney General Ashley Moody, unless you’re sure the text really did come from your shipper. Scam “robotexts” about package shipping updates are a common way crooks…

Google’s Threat Analysis Group has recently published a report detailing how over the past few years phishing hackers have hijacked popular YouTube accounts to make money through cryptocurrency scams and other methods. Since late 2019, Google has tracked and disrupted the scammers, described as “a group of hackers recruited in a Russian-speaking forum.” Combining cookie-based…