Scams use deception to steal money, credentials, or sensitive data, making them a cybersecurity risk for individuals and organizations.
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Scams are deceptive schemes intended to make people surrender money, credentials, sensitive information, or access. In information security, they commonly use phishing messages, impersonation, fraudulent websites, business-email compromise, fake technical support, or malicious attachments. Their defining feature is manipulation: the attacker creates a credible pretext and pressures the target to act before verifying the request.
Security teams should treat scams as an attack surface spanning email, messaging, telephone calls, social media, and payment workflows. Material risks include account takeover through stolen credentials, unauthorized payments, disclosure of personal or company data, and malware execution from deceptive content. Useful controls include phishing-resistant authentication, secure payment-change procedures with independent verification, filtering and domain protections, user training focused on reporting, and rapid review of suspicious messages or transactions. Incident handling may require revoking sessions, resetting credentials, contacting financial institutions, preserving evidence, and notifying affected parties where applicable.
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U.S. prosecutors on Thursday charged a New York man and woman for their roles in a large-scale crime ring that laundered money stolen in cyber investment fraud scams. [...]
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UK authorities charged five people following a National Crime Agency (NCA) investigation into Russian Coms, a major caller ID spoofing platform used by criminals to make over 1.8 million scam calls. [...]
The anti-fraud crackdown, dubbed Operation First Light, identified more than 142,000 victims of various social-engineering scams. The post Interpol cybercrime crackdown nets 5,800 arrests across 97 countries appeared first on CyberScoop.
The phishing campaign uses several tactics, including nested redirects, to evade detection and steal credentials from unsuspecting targets.
Business Email Compromise is more than an email scam. It's a coordinated operation involving compromised accounts, financial research, and cash-out networks. Flare explores how underground forums reveal how BEC attacks are planned and executed. [...]
New findings unearthed by Infoblox show that more than 236,000 websites are using investment scam templates built using a legitimate Chinese open-source, cross-platform application development framework called DCloud Uni-App
With tens of billions of dollars flowing into regional economies from cybercrime, scam centers continue to flourish, despite international and law-enforcement efforts.
The U.S. Department of Justice (DoJ) on Tuesday announced the seizure of a cloud computing account put to use by subsidiaries of Cambodia-based corporate conglomerate HuiOne Group, as the Treasury unveiled fresh sanctions against nine individuals and 26 entities linked to Prince Group
lso Tuesday, the Treasury Department took action against the same Cambodian company, Huione Group, and affiliates. The post Justice Department seizes infrastructure used by cyber scam and criminal marketplace appeared first on CyberScoop.
Cybercriminals launch fake GTA 6 pre-order sites offering early access for crypto payments
A new report from INTERPOL has revealed a "dramatic increase" in cybercrime in Asia and the South Pacific, fueled by rapid digitalization, internet penetration, new technologies, organized criminal networks, and a disparity in cybersecurity maturity
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Latest Interpol review shows how scams continue to dominate, and AI-enabled attackers prove too hot to handle for cash-strapped regions
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) warned that Americans lost $3.5 billion to imposter scams in 2025, with reported losses nearly tripling since 2020. [...]
The FBI claims couriers are being used to circumvent bank transfers in crypto investment schemes
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) warned that criminals are using couriers to collect money from victims of cryptocurrency investment scams, also known as pig butchering or romance baiting. [...]
Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of fraudulent activity targeting users across the Middle East and North Africa by employing various fraudulent Facebook accounts impersonating politicians, public figures, and trusted organizations
Outsider provided phishing kits and infrastructure for cybercriminals to scam victims with lures claiming they missed packages, had unpaid tolls or parking violations. The post FBI takes down massive China-based cybercrime network that caused $1.9B in losses appeared first on CyberScoop.