Hacker sells access to hundreds of corporate executives’ email accounts

Posted on 29/11/2020 by Engadget

Hackers are fond of hijacking email accounts, and one of them may have obtained a motherlode of potential targets. ZDNet and Gizmodo report that a hacker is selling claimed access to “hundreds” of C-suite executives’ Microsoft-based email accounts, i...

Facebook is running a national ad campaign to encourage voting

Posted on 21/09/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Facebook is launching a national consumer awareness ad campaign around voting and registration that includes a “vote-a-thon” and in-app consumer marketing campaign. It’s the continuation of a program that Facebook said that has helped 2.5 million peo...

PayPal has a fraud problem

Posted on 31/08/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

At first glance, the email looks like a textbook phishing attempt. Subject line: “Invoice from Help those affected by the California Wildfires. Body text: “‘Help those affected by the California Wildfires’ sent you an invoice for $35.00 USD.” A butto...

Nigerians face US charges over online fraud worth ‘hundreds of millions’

Posted on 04/07/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

US law enforcement is cracking down on a pair of alleged online fraudsters that appear to have been wildly successful. The United Arab Emirates has sent the US two Nigerian nationals, Ramon Olorunwa Abbas and Olakean Jacob Ponle, to face charges rela...

EPA orders Amazon and eBay to remove products posing as coronavirus remedies

Posted on 11/06/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ordered Amazon and eBay to stop selling products that falsely claim to kill coronavirus. Around 70 products were specified in the EPA’s order, including paint stripper, tablets containing chlorine dioxide...

Fraud ring uses stolen data to scam unemployment insurance programs

Posted on 17/05/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Fraudsters are taking advantage of both data breaches and weaknesses in government online systems to commit scams on a large scale. KrebsOnSecurity has obtained a Secret Service memo revealing that a sophisticated Nigerian crime ring has been using a...

Nintendo blocks legacy logins after 160,000 accounts were compromised

Posted on 24/04/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Nintendo has shut down NNID logins and is encouraging Switch owners to lock down their accounts after a wave of fraudulent attacks. Nintendo itself has confirmed that the platform has fallen foul of hackers, who are accessing accounts and using linke...

COVID-19 scammers may have stolen millions from the German government

Posted on 20/04/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Fraudsters may have stolen tens of millions of euros earmarked for German COVID-19 financial aid after a province failed to properly check the identity of applicants, according to Handelsblatt. The cybercriminals used a classic phishing scheme: First...

FCC, FTC give providers 48 hours to block COVID-19 scam robocalls

Posted on 03/04/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

The US government's quest to fight robocalls is taking on added urgency in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. The FCC and FTC have demanded that gateway providers cut off COVID-19-related scam robocalls of overseas origin within 48 hours or else fa...

Russia busts card fraud ring that included an infamous hacker

Posted on 29/03/2020 by Engadget RSS Feed

Russia tends to turn a blind eye to some fraudsters and hackers, but it just clamped down on a particularly large group. Investigators have charged at least 25 people involved in a credit card fraud ring that included a notorious hacker. While Russ...

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