Credit to Author: Victoria Turk| Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Amber Scorah and Psst are building a “digital safe” to help people shine a light on the bad things their bosses are doing, without getting found out.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Mon, 19 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Format Boy makes a living teaching Yahoo Boys, notorious West African scammers, how to use AI and deepfake technology to ensnare their next victims.
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Credit to Author: Micah Lee| Date: Sun, 18 May 2025 11:00:00 +0000
The company behind the Signal clone used by at least one Trump administration official was breached earlier this month. The hacker says they got in thanks to a basic misconfiguration.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman, Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Sat, 17 May 2025 10:30:00 +0000
Plus: 12 more people are indicted over a $263 million crypto heist, and a former FBI director is accused of threatening Donald Trump thanks to an Instagram post of seashells.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 20:00:00 +0000
Following a WIRED inquiry, Telegram banned thousands of accounts used for crypto-scam money laundering, including those of Haowang Guarantee, a black market that enabled over $27 billion in transactions.
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Credit to Author: Dell Cameron, Dhruv Mehrotra| Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 16:53:00 +0000
Russell Vought, acting director of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, has canceled plans to more tightly regulate the sale of Americans’ sensitive personal data.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess| Date: Wed, 14 May 2025 10:00:00 +0000
Security researchers are publishing 1,000 email addresses they claim are linked to North Korean IT worker scams that infiltrated Western companies—along with photos of men allegedly involved in the schemes.
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Credit to Author: Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 18:33:06 +0000
A new extra-secure mode for Android 16 will let at-risk users lock their devices down.
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Credit to Author: Matt Burgess, Lily Hay Newman| Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 17:00:00 +0000
Android’s “Scam Detection” protection in Google Messages will now be able to flag even more types of digital fraud.
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Credit to Author: Andy Greenberg| Date: Tue, 13 May 2025 14:00:00 +0000
Before a crackdown by Telegram, Xinbi Guarantee grew into one of the internet’s biggest markets for Chinese-speaking crypto scammers and money laundering. And all registered to a US address.
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