YouTube shows ads for ad blocker, financial scams

After performing local experiments for a few months, YouTube recently expanded its effort to block ad blockers. The move was immediately unpopular with some users, and raised some questions in Europe about whether it was breaking privacy laws. In addition, there are some still some fundamental...

Binance chief says a “sophisticated hacking team” turned him into a deepfake hologram

Deepfakes are back, and causing major problems for people involved in financial circles. Scammers have been targeting people in the cryptocurrency community for some time now. Theres huge money to be made via the act of ripping folks off. Some of it is phishing, other attacks focus on breaking in...

CEO 'Deep Fake' Swindles Company Out of $243K

In the first known case of successful financial scamming via audio deep fakes, cybercrooks were able to create a near-perfect impersonation of a chief executive’s voice – and then used the audio to fool his company into transferring $243,000 to their bank account. A deep fake is a plausible video...

Romanian Duo Convicted of Malware Scheme Infecting 400,000 Computers

A Romanian duo has been convicted for infecting hundreds of thousands of computers with malware that scooped up credentials and financial information, and scamming victims out of millions of dollars. The two, Bogdan Nicolescu, 36, and Radu Miclaus, 37, were convicted by a federal jury in Ohio on...

Phishing Campaign Sending Dropbox Links to Zeus Downloads

With more enterprises sharing documents through Dropbox, the free online storage service is popping up in more spam and phishing scams. The latest doesn’t necessarily target data stored by individuals and companies on Dropbox, but instead preys on the trust users have in the service. Researchers ...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Financial Document Delivery Email Messages on September 26, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30993 First Published: 2013 September 26 12:56 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a financial document delivery notification for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to...