Scammers Threatened A 72-Year-Old Over A Fake Computer Claim. Police Set Up “Operation Money Trap”

A 72-year-old Ohio woman had already sent money once after scammers threatened to ruin her reputation with a fake computer ...
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Fake Interpol investigation emails target small businesses with ransomware

Attackers impersonate Interpol to trick small businesses into downloading ransomware hidden in password-protected archives.

A Fake Microsoft Alert Led To An “IRS Agent” Pickup. Prosecutors Say Cash And Gold Followed

A Tonawanda, New York, resident’s computer screen allegedly flashed a warning that said “Microsoft Security” and told them to ...

Clean GitHub repo tricks AI coding agents into running malware

An agentic coding tool tasked with cloning and setting up a seemingly benign GitHub repository could execute a malicious ...
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Attackers deliver infostealer to Polymarket trading bot users, DeFi devs through npm packages

Hackers created a fake trading bot for Polymarket’s prediction markets on GitHub. The bot was used to spread malware that ...

Here's why QR codes can be dangerous and what to do instead

A attack using QR codes is known as "quishing," a combination of QR code and phishing. The danger isn't the QR code itself; ...

Fake CAPTCHA Scam 'ClickFix' Spreads Malware Across 700 Trusted Websites, Tricks Users Into Installing Malware on Windows PCs

Researchers found attackers using fake CAPTCHA pages. Users should never run PowerShell or Windows commands requested by ...

Lost your crypto access code? Be wary, there‘s a scam for that too

A niche type of fraud is lucrative enough for criminals to set up fake websites with dodgy software to harvest your data ...

Red teamers turned Claude Desktop into a double agent to do their evil bidding

EXCLUSIVE Pentera Labs’ red teamers compromised a developer’s AI agent via his Claude Desktop app and ultimately turned that access into full remote code execution on the devs ...

You could win Four Tickets to America 250

July 4th is coming up and it marks the 250th anniversary of the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Text “FLAG” to ...

AI Hiring Is Booming This Summer With 5 Remote, Six-Figure Careers

As workers remain concerned about AI replacing jobs, employers are simultaneously creating remote jobs for workers who know ...