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 and prevents phishing…
OpenAI’s official press account on X was compromised by cryptocurrency scammers. Or, at least that’s what appears to have happened. Late Monday afternoon, OpenAI Newsroom, an account OpenAI recently launched to spotlight product- and policy-related…
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. It’s been a…
Some Indian government websites have allowed scammers to plant advertisements capable of redirecting visitors to online betting platforms. TechCrunch discovered around four dozen “gov.in” website links associated with Indian states, including Bihar, Goa, Karnataka, Kerala,…
Most scammers and cybercriminals operate in the digital shadows and don’t want you to know how they make money. But that’s not the case for the Yahoo Boys, a loose collective of young men in…
Apple’s App Store isn’t always as trustworthy as the company claims. The latest example comes from RockAuto, an auto parts dealer popular with home mechanics and other DIYers, which is upset that a fake app…