QR code attacks probably aren’t coming for your scan-to-order menusStay away from the usual phishing red flags and you should be fine.By K. Malone, 12.20.2023
How social engineering takes advantage of your kindnessBut teaching people to be less helpful can be hard. By K. Malone, 09.18.2023
Global ransomware attacks at an all-time high and the US is the primary targetMore than 43 percent of reported incidents happened in the United States. By L. Bonk, 08.04.2023
Hitting the Books: How hackers turned cybercrime into a commercial serviceEvery Nigerian prince has to start somewhere.By A. Tarantola, 06.25.2023
FBI says Americans lost $10.3 billion to internet scammers in 2022Many people fell prey to crypto fraud.By J. Fingas, 03.15.2023
Reddit was hacked in a phishing attack targeting its employeesBut it says investigators found no evidence that user data has been compromised.By M. Moon, 02.10.2023
The Guardian says ransomware attack compromised staff's personal dataThe attackers may have just wanted money.By J. Fingas, 01.11.2023
FTC says ed tech company Chegg exposed data belonging to 40 million usersThe info included students' religions and sexual orientations.By J. Fingas, 10.31.2022
2K confirms its support desk was hacked to send malware to gamersDon't click any links from the company's support email.By I. Bonifacic, 09.21.2022
A Webb Telescope image is being used to push malwareBad actors hid malicious code in Webb's First Deep Field for a malware campaign.By M. Moon, 09.05.2022
Signal says third-party data breach exposed 1,900 phone numbersA hacker targeted at least a few accounts after the Twilio breach.By J. Fingas, 08.15.2022
Senate committee chair grills Apple, Google over protection against crypto app scamsBrown wants to know if app stores are doing enough to fight fraud.By J. Fingas, 07.28.2022
OpenSea users' email addresses leaked in data breachIf you’ve shared your email address with the NFT marketplace, assume you're affected.By A. Khalid, 06.30.2022
Microsoft's Defender online security tool is now available to consumersThe online app boosts existing protection for your computers and phones.By J. Fingas, 06.16.2022
Google's latest security upgrades include virtual credit cardsYou can also expect stronger phishing protections.By J. Fingas, 05.11.2022
Hackers breached Mailchimp to target crypto holdersTrezor hardware wallet users were the target of a phishing campaign. By A. Khalid, 04.04.2022
Bored Ape and other major NFT Discord servers targeted by scammersBad actors hacked the projects' Discord bots to post phishing links.By M. Moon, 04.02.2022
OpenSea users lose hundreds of NFTs in likely phishing attackThe damage is estimated at $1.7 million.By I. Bonifacic, 02.20.2022
Here's why your Apple two-factor texts include strange tagsThe move helps thwart phishing attacks.By J. Fingas, 01.31.2022
Meta is trying to find the people who created more than 39,000 phishing sitesThe company filed a lawsuit in California to uncover the identities of those behind the attacks. By I. Bonifacic, 12.20.2021