Watch out for this fake Face ID Apple Pay pop-up scam
How it works The scam uses a variety of web technologies to make it look, to the untrained eye, like an Apple Pay charge for $657 to the App Store has been made. There’s a…
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Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to scam ‘hundreds of thousands of victims’ sued by Google
Google is suing to dismantle the infrastructure behind an alleged massive AI-powered cybercrime operation. On Friday, the tech giant announced a lawsuit against an alleged Chinese cybercrime network called Outsider Enterprise, which Google says uses…
Google sues alleged Chinese cybercrime operation that used AI to send scam texts
Google is suing to dismantle the infrastructure behind an alleged massive AI-powered cybercrime operation. On Friday, the tech giant announced a lawsuit against an alleged Chinese cybercrime network called Outsider Enterprise, which Google says uses…
Scammers are abusing an internal Microsoft account to send spam links
For months, scammers have been taking advantage of a loophole that allows them to send spammy emails from an internal Microsoft email address typically used for sending legitimate account alerts. It’s not clear how the…
New iPhone phishing scam involves email sent from Apple servers
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Macworld reports on a sophisticated phishing scam where attackers use legitimate Apple servers to send convincing fake emails from [email protected]. The scam involves fraudulent purchase alerts directing…
Is that security alert a scam? How to tell the real from fake
Your smartphone vibrates and an email pops up: “Unusual login activity detected on your account.” For many users, this is a moment of panic. Are you experiencing a real hacker attack? Has your email account…
The ‘See who viewed your profile’ Facebook scam is back. Don’t click it!
One of the things many Facebook users have long wanted is a feature that shows who has visited and viewed their profiles. Now, a Facebook post is promising exactly that—but it’s a scam. Austrian fact-checking…
Watch out for this ‘1.1 TB’ laptop scam on Amazon
Way back in the 90s, a program called SoftRAM claimed to double your memory without any additional hardware. It, uh, didn’t. (It basically just fooled the memory display and did nothing to improve performance.) I’m…
If you use Apple Pay, watch out for this clever phishing scam
Summary created by Smart Answers AI In summary: Macworld warns of a sophisticated Apple Pay phishing scam using fake “blocked transaction” emails with official-looking branding and urgent language. Scammers direct victims to fraudulent phone numbers…
There’s a rash of scam spam coming from a real Microsoft address
There are reports that a legitimate Microsoft email address—which Microsoft explicitly says customers should add to their allow list—is delivering scam spam. The emails originate from no-reply[email protected], an address tied to Power BI. The Microsoft…