Tag: scammers

  • Slashdot: ‘AI Granny’ Driving Scammers Up the Wall

    Source URL: https://slashdot.org/story/25/02/05/1426220/ai-granny-driving-scammers-up-the-wall?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed Source: Slashdot Title: ‘AI Granny’ Driving Scammers Up the Wall Feedly Summary: AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The deployment of O2’s AI chatbot named Daisy to engage and waste the time of scammers leverages artificial intelligence for proactive fraud prevention, showcasing a novel application of AI technology. This approach not only…

  • Hacker News: A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew

    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/01/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-prolific-voice-phishing-crew/ Source: Hacker News Title: A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew Feedly Summary: Comments AI Summary and Description: Yes **Summary:** The text delves into the disturbing and sophisticated tactics utilized by voice phishing gangs, primarily focusing on a group known as “Crypto Chameleon.” It highlights how these criminals…

  • Krebs on Security: A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew

    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/01/a-day-in-the-life-of-a-prolific-voice-phishing-crew/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew Feedly Summary: Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. However, new details about the internal operations…

  • Wired: You Need to Create a Secret Password With Your Family

    Source URL: https://www.wired.com/story/you-need-to-create-a-secret-passphrase-with-your-family/ Source: Wired Title: You Need to Create a Secret Password With Your Family Feedly Summary: AI voice cloning and deepfakes are supercharging scams. One method to protect your loved ones and yourself is to create secret code words to verify someone’s identity in real time. AI Summary and Description: Yes Summary: The…

  • Krebs on Security: How to Lose a Fortune with Just One Bad Click

    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/12/how-to-lose-a-fortune-with-just-one-bad-click/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: How to Lose a Fortune with Just One Bad Click Feedly Summary: Adam Griffin is still in disbelief over how quickly he was robbed of nearly $500,000 in cryptocurrencies. A scammer called using a real Google phone number to warn his Gmail account was being hacked, sent…

  • Krebs on Security: Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz

    Source URL: https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/12/why-phishers-love-new-tlds-like-shop-top-and-xyz/ Source: Krebs on Security Title: Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz Feedly Summary: Phishing attacks increased nearly 40 percent in the year ending August 2024, with much of that growth concentrated at a small number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) — such as .shop, .top, .xyz —…

  • The Register: The only thing worse than being fired is scammers fooling you into thinking you’re fired

    Source URL: https://www.theregister.com/2024/11/28/fired_phishing_campaign_cloudflare/ Source: The Register Title: The only thing worse than being fired is scammers fooling you into thinking you’re fired Feedly Summary: Scumbags play on victims’ worst fears in phishing campaign referencing UK Employment Tribunal A current phishing campaign scares recipients into believing they’ve been sacked, when in reality they’ve been hacked –…