Google and the FBI have issued warnings about Silent Ransom Group, a cybercriminal gang that has escalated its tactics by sending fake IT workers physically into offices to steal data via USB drives ...

Counterfeit iPhones have reached a new level of sophistication, with the latest fake iPhone Air posing a significant challenge for unsuspecting buyers. These replicas are designed to closely mimic the ...

The SEC charged Texas man Nathan Fuller with raising $12.3 million from 150 investors through a crypto fraud scheme built around fake AI trading bots. The Securities and Exchange Commission has ...

Clicking a captcha "I am not a robot" box and identifying images to prove it is second nature for many internet users. Now, cybercriminals are exploiting people's comfort with the routine to scam them ...

A network of fake academic journals masquerading as legitimate publications has published more than a hundred AI-generated papers in recent months, in some cases using the names of real professors at ...

A sweeping new study from Northwestern University reveals that scientific fraud is no longer just the work of a few rogue researchers—it has evolved into a global, organized enterprise. By analyzing ...

In April the Alabama Supreme Court sanctioned an attorney who had filed legal briefs laden with inaccurate citations generated by AI, including numerous references to cases that did not exist. After ...

The citations at the end of a research paper should represent a solid foundation of existing knowledge about a particular field, a pool of peer-reviewed sources built over years of research and study.

An audit of 2.5 million academic papers has identified nearly 3,000 biomedical-science papers that contain fake references — ones that could not be traced to known publications. The findings, ...

My article with the above title has now been published online by the Journal of Law & Civil Governance at Texas A&M. The following is the Abstract: This article concerns how a fake citation has misled ...

The Brooklyn rock band Geese has quickly become one of the hottest acts on the indie rock scene. The band recently released its fourth studio album, Getting Killed, in 2025, performed as the musical ...

Poke constructs a fake Roblox game designed specifically to bait and expose scammers in a controlled experiment. Coffee linked to significant new side effect, says massive study What happens if you ...