scammers

Attackers are hijacking hotel accounts on Booking.com, and stealing their clients’ banking data through its internal messaging system.

Fraudsters are buying blue checkmarks to impersonate well-known brands on X (ex-Twitter) and scam users.

We investigate why chip cards are no panacea, and what precautions should be taken when making a payment.

We reveal more cunning cybercriminal tricks and explain how to guard against scams.

As soon as Facebook announced grants for coronavirus-hit businesses, scammers went phishing.

Under the pretext of compensation for data leaks, fraudsters are selling “temporary U.S. social security numbers.”

Two schemes whereby a victim receives money — and neither one is good news.

Tempted to stream Game of Thrones free? Be very cautious: You might pay for it with your passwords and credit card details.

Tempted to find the movie Avengers: Endgame online? Be cautious: A lot of websites promise to deliver but collect your passwords and credit card details instead.

How scammers are exploiting the GDPR fuss to extract personal data.

New Steam scams trick users into giving up money or account access.

It turns out there are bots in Tinder and OkCupid. Who wants that?

When Canada-based adultery site Ashley Madison was hacked, cybercriminals wasted no time in taking advantage of it. Even now, a year later, they continue to blackmail people and hold their data hostage. We look back at what happened then and talk about what’s happening now.

Internet scammers are quite smart and greedy, and know how to disguise their traps, but there are always some ways to find out where these traps are.

You can tell your kids to stay off the social networks and you can tell yourself that they’ll listen, but chances are they’ll find a way on, anyway. So we’re