September 24, 2020

SMS phishing scam pretends to be Apple “chatbot” – don’t fall for it!

If you got someone else's "free offer" in what looked like a misdirected message, would you take a peek?

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September 09, 2020

Faking it: the thriving business of “fake alert” web scams

Tech support scams and "scarevertising" for questionable mobile apps use ad networks to find their unwitting victims.

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August 07, 2020

Business Email Compromise – fighting back with machine learning

Machine learning models are immune to blandishments, threats, flattery and so - so why not set them against social engineers?

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July 23, 2020

Sports team nearly paid a $1.25m transfer fee… to cybercrooks

If a crook is already inside your email, occasionally adding in believable emails of their own... how on earth do you spot the fake ones?

Naked Security

July 01, 2020

Google stops pushing scam ads on Americans searching for how to vote

No US entity charges citizens for registering to vote, but plenty of Google ads were happy to do so - and to grab your PII in the process.

Naked Security

June 22, 2020

Anatomy of a survey scam – how innocent questions can rip you off

We take part in a fraudulent survey so you don't have to. Show your friends and family how these scams unfold.

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June 18, 2020

Crypto founder admits $25 million ICO backed by celebrities was a scam

Endorsed by boxer Floyd Mayweather and DJ Khaled, the Centra Tech ICO debacle has led to the guilty plea of co-founder Robert Farkas.

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May 21, 2020

Scammers target COVID-19 CARES Act relief scheme

US states are being flooded by fraudulent unemployment applications in a scam run by a sophisticated cybergang.

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April 21, 2020

Facebook to alert us if we’ve been exposed to fake coronavirus news

Drinking bleach does NOT cure coronavirus: it's just one dangerous myth that Facebook will alert us to if we've interacted with it.

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