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Medicare scam calls, texts and ads: What to watch for this Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment is peak season for Medicare fraud – here’s how to tell real outreach from fakes and keep your details safe
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Two arrested as DOJ takes down laptop farms responsible for $3 million in North Korean revenue
More than 40 residences in Texas were the target of a federal operation in September to clamp down on remote worker scams that feed money back to the North Korean regime.
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FTC: Company netted at least $60 million charging sextortion victims for help it didn’t provide
An Ohio-based company charged individuals thousands of dollars to fight sextortion scams, but the operation itself was fraudulent, according to a Federal Trade Commission complaint.
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FTC says ‘sextortion’ protection companies deceived customers about services
The Federal Trade Commission is asking a court to force the owner of multiple digital security and privacy companies from further operations, saying the businesses are serially defrauding their…
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West African scammers targeted in joint international government-industry operation
A joint international law enforcement and industry operation against scammers netted 28 arrests, rescued 117 trafficking victims and led to the takedown of more than 3.7 million accounts, the Justice…
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West African scam compounds raided, more than 100 suspected trafficking victims ‘rescued’
More than two dozen people were arrested by police in Ghana and Nigeria as part of a U.K.-hosted operation that also included tech companies.
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“Don’t Get Played”: TOKEN2049 Security Event Faces Remote-Access Scam Allegations
A crypto security event that promised to teach attendees how to avoid scams is now the subject of scam allegations.
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Your “Who’s this?” reply is exactly what text scammers want
Scammers are finding different ways to use personal details exposed in data breaches to lure people into conversations. Last week, we showed how a Facebook Marketplace listing used the recipient’s…
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ClickFix to BEC in 24 Hours: Tragic Quadrant | Huntress
Doris searched for ChatGPT and ended up in a BEC scam. See how ClickFix, a stolen session cookie, and a hidden inbox rule chain into an OH $#!T moment.
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AI messaging scam costs Italy's top bank Intesa millions, sources say
MILAN, Sept 25 (Reuters) - Fraudsters using AI to impersonate senior executives stole €95 million ($108 million) from Fideuram, the private banking arm of Italy's biggest lender Intesa Sanpaolo…
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How “123456” became the key to almost 9 million personal records
An attacker reportedly used a leaked password to abuse a company’s legitimate access to Denmark’s population register (CPR). The weak password is remarkable, but the failure to spot millions of…
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A week in security (October 5 – October 11)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: ASOS breach update: Hackers stole customer details and shopping searches Attackers hijack country-code domains to impersonate Google and other services Amazon has an…
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AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals
Anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they think are real victims.
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US Sentences Empire Market Co-Creator Over $430 Million Criminal Marketplace
Empire Market co-creator Raheim Hamilton was sentenced to 40 years in prison for running a dark web marketplace linked to $430 million in illegal trades. The case against Empire Market shows how a…
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Smashing Security podcast #487: Clippy’s crypto comeback
Microsoft's Twitter account, with its 13 million followers, was hijacked by a paperclip. There was no ransomware or data theft, just Clippy, a dodgy crypto coin, and a corporate apology that wasn't…
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Google issues Android security updates: who can get them and how
Google has published security fixes for Android. The October updates are available for Android operating system versions 14, 15, 16, 16-qpr2, and 17 where “qpr” stands for Quarterly Platform Release…
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AI-powered phishkit arms criminals with account-hijacking tools in 10 minutes
In August, the Malwarebytes research team reported on a new malicious turnkey kit that makes it possible for almost anyone to launch a sophisticated online scam. The kit was not simply a fake…
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Inside a brand deal scam targeting YouTube creators
A plausible-sounding sponsorship offer could mask an attempt to compromise your Google account
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SPECIAL REPORT: Inside AI scam ads exploiting TikTok’s advertising system to defraud Nigerians
When Mohammed Yusuf resigned from his “poorly paid” teaching job in Ilorin, Kwara State, in October 2025, he hoped a new source of income would help him survive Nigeria’s economic hardship. After…
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Facebook Marketplace scam uses your name and number
Facebook users are reporting receiving a message with a fake Facebook Marketplace listing that has their name as the seller. It works like this. You receive a message (in this case iMessage) asking…