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
Tens of millions of individuals shall be on the hunt for excellent offers when Amazon’s annual Prime Day sale kicks off this week, however the tech big and third-party cybersecurity consultants each warn that scammers may even be attempting to capitalize on the occasion to snap up customers’ cash and private info. This story is … Read more
Code hidden inside PC motherboards left thousands and thousands of machines susceptible to malicious updates, researchers revealed this week. Workers at safety agency Eclypsium discovered code inside lots of of fashions of motherboards created by Taiwanese producer Gigabyte that allowed an updater program to obtain and run one other piece of software program. Whereas the system … Read more
As cryptocurrencies rise and fall, there’s one quantity that simply retains going up. Every time anyone loses cash to a crypto rip-off or hack, the Grift Counter on Molly White’s weblog, Web3 Is Going Simply Nice, spins greater and better. Just lately it ticked over $12 billion. White began the weblog in December 2021 out … Read more