Scams

I may need to give up social media altogether. I can’t seem to avoid seeing scams in all directions, and I can’t seem to ignore them, even though writing about this stuff ...

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Cryptocurrency-related phishing attacks are on the rise, with a report from Kaspersky recording an increase of 40% in 2022 compared to the previous year. This was among the many findings in the ...

Here’s an experiment being run by undergraduate computer science students everywhere: Ask ChatGPT to generate phishing emails, and test whether these are better at persuading victims to respond or click on the ...

AI impersonation technology is a new and concerning cyber threat that uses machine learning algorithms to impersonate people online. Hackers can use this technology to create convincing fake personas that they can ...

Ben is disappointed: FBI reports huge rise in cryptocurrency investment scams. Why am I not surprised? ...

October is officially cybersecurity awareness month, originally designated back in 2004 by United States President George W. Bush and Congress to raise awareness of the growing cybersecurity threat landscape that affects businesses, ...

I have been noodling around with ChatGPT recently and have found a nice little use case that I hope someone with more coding skills and ...

[This is an article – slightly edited – that was originally posted on the now defunct itsecurity.co.uk. I was reminded, a blog page to which a number of security researchers contributed articles ...

We have seen scams trying to lure guys into relationships for many years. This was so common that back in 2007, for a few months I collected all those scam emails that ...