As the guy in my family who writes for WIRED, I often act as tech support. When relatives want to know what phone to buy or why the Wi-Fi sucks in the back room, they ask me. I recently discovered that an elderly family member was being charged more than double what I pay each … Read more
Tax season is an ideal season for scammers. People are stressed-out and intimidated by the prospect of filing taxes. As a result, they may be more vulnerable to deception, including scammers’ efforts to obtain their valuable personal information, pursue refunds in a taxpayer’s name, and trick them into paying for fraudulent tax services. The end … Read more
More than one in four companies now ban their employees from using generative AI. But that does little to protect against criminals who use it to trick employees into sharing sensitive information or pay fraudulent invoices. Armed with ChatGPT or its dark web equivalent, FraudGPT, criminals can easily create realistic videos of profit and loss … Read more
No matter what you’re looking for on a dating app, most of us can agree on one thing: we want to talk to real human beings. No spammers, no scammers, and certainly no fake profiles. Bumble is launching a new AI-powered tool called Deception Detector, to weed out spam, scam, and fake profiles, with the … Read more
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The video is almost convincing: it features Solana co-founder Anatoly Yakovenko announcing a “historic day” for Solana. He thanks the “S-O-L” community and offers a giveaway through a QR code and a website. Sure, he sounds a little robotic — his voice is a monotone, unusual for him — and he hardly makes eye contact with … Read more
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The Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned the public against scanning any old QR code in a consumer alerts blog last week. Naturally, the warning comes down to security and privacy — bad actors can put QR codes in inconspicuous places or send them via text or email, then just sit back and wait for a … Read more
Black Friday arrives the day after Thanksgiving. This year that means it falls on Nov. 24. It’ll be a day filled with deals on items like headphones and air fryers, but with all the potential money flowing from customers to stores, cybercriminals will be looking to get their hands on some of it. Scammers work year … Read more
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia — Twenty-five Japanese nationals suspected of involvement in a cyberscam operation based in Cambodia were deported to Japan on Wednesday, said Gen. Khieu Sopheak, a spokesperson for Cambodia’s Interior Ministry. The Japanese government arranged a charter flight to transport the suspects, who were detained in September after Cambodian police received a tip-off … Read more
magann/Getty Images Singapore has laid out a framework detailing parties that should be held responsible for phishing scams, with banks and telcos taking on accountability for the first line of defense. Regulators for the financial services and ICT sectors this week released a joint consultation paper with a proposed shared responsibility framework that will kick … Read more
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Amazon, Microsoft, and India’s Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI), the country’s federal enforcement agency, have announced a major crackdown on tech support fraud. The CBI’s post details two instances where scammers pretended they were customer support agents for two “well-known multi-national companies” (Amazon and Microsoft) through pop-ups that “falsely appeared to be security alerts” from … Read more