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Criminals exploited weak checks and old tech to pull off vast COVID benefit fraud
August 24, 2021 - In life, when you encounter something momentuous—a sudden job loss, a routine check-up that revealed an illness you can’t afford the...
Busted! Fraud-as-a-Service gang that sold 2FA-proof phishing arrested
July 23, 2021 - The Dutch police announced that they arrested two Dutch citizens, aged 24 and 15, for developing and selling phishing panels. The...
Cybercrime, fraud, and insider threats increased in 2020 in the UK, report says
June 3, 2021 - Since the initial lockdown, we have seen the rise of certain types of cybercrime, including scams and fraud campaigns that either...
Caught in the payment fraud net: when, not if?
September 29, 2020 - Sometimes, I think there are three certainties in life: death, taxes, and some form of payment fraud. Security reporter Danny Palmer...
Child identity theft, part 1: On familiar fraud
March 3, 2020 - In 2013, 30-year-old Axton Betz-Hamilton received an angry phone call from her father two weeks after her mother, Pam, died. “What...
Fraudsters cloak credit card skimmer with fake content delivery network, ngrok server
February 26, 2020 - Threat actors love to abuse legitimate brands and infrastructure—this, we know. Last year we exposed how web skimmers had found their...
Everything you need to know about ATM attacks and fraud: part 2
August 2, 2019 - This is the second and final installment of our two-part series on automated teller machine (ATM) attacks and fraud. In part...
Fake jquery campaign leads to malvertising and ad fraud schemes
June 27, 2019 - Recently we became aware of new domains used by an old malware campaign known as ‘fake jquery’, previously documented by web...
Everything you need to know about ATM attacks and fraud: Part 1
May 29, 2019 - Flashback to two years ago. At exactly 12:33 a.m., a solitary ATM somewhere in Taichung City, Taiwan, spewed out 90,000 TWD...
Malwarebytes helps take down massive ad fraud botnets
November 28, 2018 - On November 27, the US Department of Justice announced the indictment of eight individuals involved in a major ad fraud case...
