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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Computer users warned over 'sophisticated' scam that occurs when you 'copy and paste'

Using the 'Click Fix Scam' fraudsters has been developed a 'sophisticated' method trick 'normal people' into thinking they ...

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; ...

Alert issued to all households who use copy and paste settings on computers

A warning has been issued to all desktop computer and laptop users over a new 'sophisticated' scam that tricks people in a ...

You and your friend may be paying different prices for the same thing. Here's how companies make that happen

CreditNinja reports that companies use surveillance pricing to charge different prices for the same products based on ...

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 ...
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Weak passwords, fake links biggest threats to journalists — Expert warns

By Juliet Umeh The Wole Soyinka Centre for Investigative Journalism, WSCIJ, has identified weak passwords, phishing links and ...