Reported by: Reuters Payment-seeking software made by Russian hackers was used in three quarters of all the ransomware schemes reported to a U.S. financial crime agency in the second half of 2021, a Treasury Department analysis released on Tuesday showed. In analysis issued in response to the increase in number and severity of ransomware attacks […]
Reported by: Daniel Van Boom The Lazarus Group, a hacking outfit associated with North Korea’s government, managed to drain over $600 million in crypto from a blockchain used by NFT game Axie Infinity. North Korean hackers stole $840 million in the first five months of 2022, according to Chainalysis data, over $200 million more than they’d plundered […]
Reported by: VIKRAM BARHAT Cybercriminals pilfered roughly $4.5 billion worth of digital currency in 2021, more than twice the 2020 total. In the first half of this year alone, nearly $2 billion worth of crypto has been lost to hacking, clocking a 60% jump in such instances. Whether your coins are held privately or on […]
Reported by: Jona Jaupi IF YOU don’t want to get scammed on Facebook, then there are some important red flags you should never ignore. TikTok user @KatieClarck0 shared the signs she looks for to avoid getting scammed when selling items on Facebook. Watch TikTok: http://www.tiktok.com/t/ZTRarmwKg/ Read full report: https://www.the-sun.com/tech/6210170/facebook-market-scam-money-red-flags/amp/
Reported by: KALI COLEMAN Robokiller, an app dedicated to combating these calls, recently released its 2022 Mid-Year Phone Scam Report, detailing how prevalent this problem really is. According to the report, Americans have already received an estimated 40 billion spam calls between Jan. and June 2022 alone. It’s projected that by the end of this […]
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