Latest cybersecurity reporting from selected sources.

People targeted by confidence schemes find getting help is a lonely road. Experts want law enforcement, financial, and government institutions to work together and protect them.

A convincing presale site for phony "Google Coin" features an AI assistant that engages victims with a slick sales pitch, funneling payment to attackers.

Men should take extra care on Valentine’s Day because they are nearly twice as likely as women to fall victim to romance scams.

A malware campaign presents fake websites that can check if a visitor is a potential victim or a security researcher, and then proceed accordingly to defraud or evade.

Microsoft, PayPal, Docusign, and others are among the trusted brands threat actors use in socially engineered scams that try to get victims to call adversary-controlled phone numbers.

In a new wrinkle on the tech support scam front, these search parameter injection attacks dupe victims into believing they are receiving technical help when they are actually speaking to fraudsters.

Threat actors are scamming users by advertising legitimate-looking generative AI websites that, when visited, install credential-stealing malware onto the victim's computer.

Thai police said it was expecting to soon welcome 7,000 human trafficking victims, forced to work on cybercrime scams in call centers in Mynmar, in a first wave of people being freed from captivity.

A local government resource for helping Japanese citizens cut ties with organized crime was successfully phished in a tech support scam, and could have dangerous consequences.

Campaigns like Silver Fox and Void Arachne are deploying the framework, using social media and messaging platforms to lure in victims.

Consumers are victims of online scams and have their data stolen, but they are lagging on adopting security tools to protect themselves.

Greater collaboration between financial and law enforcement officials is needed to dismantle cybercrime scam centers in Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar, which rake in tens of billions of dollars annually — and affect victims worldwide.

If CEOs want to prevent their firm from being the next victim of a high-profile deepfake scam, they need to double cybersecurity funding immediately.

The scam is spreading across the US and impersonates the specific toll-collection services of each state in malicious SMS messages.

One South Korean victim gave up $3 million to cybercriminals, thanks to convincing law-enforcement impersonation scams that combine both psychology and technology.

Scammers are targeting multiple brands with "job offers" on Meta's social media platform, that go as far as to offer what look like legitimate job contracts to victims.

Interpol breaks up Southeast Asian cybercrime rings, rescuing 149 victims of human trafficking, but the agency warns the human cost of cybercrime is mounting across the globe.

A consumer finance journalist and television personality took to Twitter to warn his followers about advertisements using his name and face to scam victims.

Threat actors have grown increasingly sophisticated in applying social engineering tactics against their victims, which is key to this oft-underrated cybercriminal scam's success.

Cybercriminals are co-opting the identities of legitimate US financial advisers to use them as fodder for relationship scams (aka "pig butchering"), which end with the theft of investments.