Old-School Credit Card Scams Are Far From Dead
In an era of increasingly sophisticated AI-fueled scams, a retro threat may be lurking in your mailbox.
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7 stories classified under Security in the last three days.
Your uncle’s frozen Mac says it’s infected after viewing a Google ad. Now what?
Researchers say they recently found Google ads delivering a sophisticated tech support scam that freezes the screens of both Windows and Mac devices and displays messages urgently instructing them to phone a bogus call center.
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Fake Google Security Team ad says 'no script reading' in voice phishing - then prints the script
Yes, criminals have job listings too.
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ShinyHunters tells The Reg: We hacked the FBI to 'protect our business'
ShinyHunters, the data theft and extortion crew that has stolen sensitive information belonging to millions of cancer patients, university and K-12 students, and Carnival cruisers, wanted to preserve their reputation and keep their “business” afloat.
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Some Supabase customers are publicly exposing reams of people’s data to the web
The findings highlight how AI-generated and vibe-coded apps can spill and expose users' data when not configured or secured properly.
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Dyfed-Powys Police cops to cyberattack, staff data potentially nicked
Dyfed-Powys Police has revealed it was hit by a cyberattack that knocked some of its systems offline, with investigators now trying to establish whether the intruders got their hands on staff data during the break-in.
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Another week, another data breach for Revolut customers
Revolut customers have been caught up in a second data breach this month after attackers socially engineered their way into US brokerage DriveWealth and stole historic personal information.
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