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VMware is pushing fixing patches for two important vulnerabilities affecting three of its products.The one is a side-request forgery attack,…

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Last updated July 6, 2021
Automated Teller Machine

The FBI has arrested a group of card skimming operators and money laundering actors. The 18 defendants now face severe…

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Last updated July 6, 2021
Random code forming a skull in the middle

Scammers promote Dharma decryption services, but experts say this is impossible. The scammers are just paying the ransomware actors and…

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Last updated July 6, 2021
ecommerce skimmers

Researchers found skimmers on nine websites, and four of them still have the snippet running. The actor behind this new…

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Last updated July 6, 2021
dark net hacker

The "Apollon" marketplace is most likely exit-scamming and has been in the process for many weeks now. Users and platforms…

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Last updated July 6, 2021
COVID-19 medicine plated in gold

As you almost certainly know, the world is gripped in the clutches of a global pandemic. It's a time where,…

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Last updated July 6, 2021
Woman Picking Newspapers

While the Internet is by far one of the most important modern inventions, thanks to the fact that it can…

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Last updated July 6, 2021
Russian police

The Russian police have raided the locations of 25 people who were operating an international carding scheme. Some of the…

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Last updated July 6, 2021

The coronavirus pandemic is starting to reach epic proportions as I write this. With multiple countries now in enforced lockdowns…

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Last updated July 6, 2021
dark web

The novel Coronavirus pandemic is proving to be both an opportunity and a disruption for malicious actors. Many darknet markets…

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Last updated July 6, 2021
COVID-19 medicine plated in gold

The current dark web scams around COVID-19 are quite diverse and interesting at the same time. Some sellers try to…

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Last updated July 6, 2021
malspam

The situation in malspam campaigns has been heavily affected by the ongoing pandemic. Spammers are impersonating health authorities or try…

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Last updated July 6, 2021
Dark web

The “Empire Market” has stayed offline for three days now, and its admins may have abandoned it. Nobody has given…

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Last updated July 6, 2021
"Phishing" printed on a keyboard key and fishing hook depicting phishing attack

Phishing emails trying to divert consumer interest to fake websites are already exploding. Right now, 235 individual phishing campaigns are…

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Last updated July 6, 2021
Sextortion victim: Anonymous woman using her phone

Sextortion actors are luring victims on fake websites that spread spyware in the form of cloned IM apps. The target…

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Last updated July 6, 2021

Scammers are taking advantage of the chip shortages that have aspiring PS5 buyers still waiting.They promise the new console as…

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Last updated July 6, 2021
lithuanian police

A €1.5 million fraud network based in Europe has been dismantled by Europol.The fraudsters lured German academics through malvertising and…

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Last updated July 6, 2021
These Things Should Never be Part of Internet Sharing

The modern internet is all about sharing. You can blog about your dog’s antics or share a picture of that…

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Last updated July 6, 2021

We've written about the general reasons why social media is bad for you before. Still, now as we face the…

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Last updated July 6, 2021
Indian Flag

Eleven individuals who participated in an investment scam ring were arrested today in Delhi, India.The crooks used apps that tricked…

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Last updated July 6, 2021
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