‘Play-to-earn’ games being used by crypto scammers
There are plenty of games that essentially turn into an unpaid job, or worse, a job that you pay for. World of Warcraft and EVE Online players can relate. But a new […]
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Microsoft, Amazon, India join forces to combat tech support scammers
If you own a cell phone, you know the pain and fury of a 9 a.m. call from “Microsoft Windows support.” These and similar scams send out literally billions of robo-calls every […]
FTC sounds alarm over dangerous QR codes used by scammers
QR codes, those square-ish barcode thingies you can scan with your phone for quick and easy access to a website, are sort of the evolution of the AOL keyword. They’re incredibly useful, […]
How Microsoft outplays scammers with clever virtual ‘honeypot’ traps
Earlier this year at the BSides Exeter security conference, Microsoft security software engineer Ross Bevington — the company’s self-proclaimed “Head of Deception” — described the exciting process by which Microsoft tricks scammers […]
Protect yourself from phone scammers who are using faked AI voices
Never before has it been easier to clone a human voice. New AI tools can take a voice sample, process it, copy it, and say anything in the voice of the original. […]
