#мошенничество
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Researchers set up a fake start-up to study North Korean IT job fraudsters
To understand how North Korean IT workers obtain jobs under false pretences, researchers founded a start-up company that does not really exist.
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Operation Serengeti III: Interpol takes down nearly 11,000 cybercrime networks in Africa
An Interpol-coordinated operation led to more than 1,400 arrests and the recovery of over $105 million. The crackdown targeted business email compromise, ransomware, and online scams.
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How a Chinese Crime Ring Hacked Staples to Steal Millions
Hackers broke into Staples' internal systems, issued gift cards worth millions, and went on a nationwide shopping spree across the U.S.
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U.S. Takes Down 40+ Laptop Farms, Charges 14 in North Korean IT Worker Scheme
The Justice Department charged 14 people and seized some 187 computers in its campaign against a scheme in which North Korean nationals posed as remote IT staff at U.S. companies.
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Ransomware recovery CEO charged over secret ransom payments
The founder of MonsterCloud has been charged with fraud: instead of the proprietary decryption technology he advertised, prosecutors say he quietly paid the attackers themselves — while billing clients many times more.
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OpenAI Shut Down a Cambodian Fraud Network That Was Using ChatGPT
The group ran several types of scam at once, using ChatGPT to generate fake identities and forged documents. Bruce Schneier reported on it.
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Operation Jackal IV: 58 Arrests and a Blow to the Black Axe Syndicate
With police from 22 countries taking part, Interpol identified 263 suspects and detained 58 people tied to West African cybercrime networks.
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€30M Stolen from Commerzbank Accounts: Arrests in Brazil and Europe
Police have detained four suspects in Brazil and charged three more in Europe. The perpetrators exploited a vulnerability at a third-party provider and siphoned off around €30M from Commerzbank customer accounts.
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WhatsApp Is Testing Scam Alert: On-Device Warnings About Fraudsters
The optional feature uses a local ML model to flag messages from strangers that show signs of fraud. The contents of the conversation never leave the device.
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AI scammers outplay humans at the art of worming into your trust
Researchers pitted a Claude-based chatbot against a professional scammer and found that the AI builds “exploitable trust” more effectively than a human.
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Apple Sued Over Fake Crypto Wallet in the App Store: $1.8M in Losses
Three users accuse Apple of negligence: they downloaded a fake crypto wallet from the App Store and lost more than $1.8 million between them.
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Data theft cost Upbound $13M: scammers set up fake leases through Acima
Fintech company Upbound Group has reported that customer data stolen from its systems was used to set up fraudulent lease-to-own agreements worth around 13 million dollars.
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Police Arrest 5,800 People in Global Operation Against Fraudsters
Law enforcement agencies from 97 countries carried out a joint operation against financial fraud, detaining thousands of suspects and seizing hundreds of millions of dollars in illicit assets.
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Google Sues Chinese Scammers Who Used Gemini for Phishing
Google has accused a group called Outsider Enterprise of running phishing-as-a-service through Telegram using the Gemini AI model. The scammers built fake sites impersonating Google, YouTube and government agencies.