Hopefully by now we all know that the adverts which pepper webpages can be malicious. That growing threat has driven an ever-increasing use of ad blockers...
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Amazon customers beware: fraudsters have been targeting Amazon shoppers by creating seller accounts or taking control of genuine vendors to trick users into...
Your online accounts are part of your digital identity. They’re used to store your conversations, money, search history or those cat pictures you bookmarked to...
“Lose 5 pounds in 1 day.” “Extreme celebrity workout to melt fat in 1 week.” How far are you willing to go for that bikini body? With summer around the corner...
According to local media reports, Bitcoin exchange MyCoin has disappeared in a puff of virtual digital smoke, taking with it possibly as much as US $387...
Well, that didn’t take long. Within days of US health insurer Anthem announcing that hackers had broken into its servers, and accessed databases...
Two weeks ago, we wrote about the re-emergence of tag scams on Facebook. What seemed to be a basic worm at that time turned into inspiration for multiple cyber...
Bad week-end for Facebook users: a malicious tagging campaign ended up infecting at least 5 thousand computer users with a backdoor. This three-day campaign...
A spam campaign revealing the 10 “hottest snapchats†is a new entry to the long list of Facebook scams flooding the social media platform in 2015...
Over 200,000 Facebook users have fallen prey to a like-farming scam promising two free Audi R8 cars, and thousands join the victim list with each hour...