fraud

While you’re watching YouTube, someone might just be using your device to mine cryptocurrency.

The cryptomining boom is helping scammers make money out of thin air. The latest method involves fake currency and ransomware.

Sex sells, as they say in advertising. In cyberspace porn serves as one of the most popular tools for malicious activity.

Hacked programs freely distributed online are found to be equipped with a hidden NiceHash cryptocurrency miner.

Attackers pretending to be acquaintances asking for money — the story is old, the approaches new. We show you how to avoid the e-bait.

Cryptocurrency mining is an IT industry buzzword and a rapidly growing phenomenon. As part of this far-reaching trend, more and more people take up “mining,” or adding blocks to a

Modern technology actually helps phone scammers — what you need to know to stay safe.

A criminal ring in India posed as technical support and tricked many people, but they couldn’t fool David Jacoby, our senior security researcher.

Find out if you can avoid traps set by fraudsters for Black Friday sales.

Online fraud is on the rise, but who is ultimately responsible and what can you do to protect yourself?

Online dating fraud cost victims millions last year. Be vigilant and protect yourself!

Criminals are stealing money from freelancers — by offering them a job.

Sooner or later each user of the internet will face a trick or trap. Here’s the list of the most widespread ones. Forewarned is forearmed!

So your social media photos are public, great. Ever wonder what could happen when they get stolen?

Kaspersky Lab experts detected a shifty scheme that allows fraudsters steal personal data without your login and password.

In the dead of the night, a guy called my Mom and said in a weary voice: “Mom, I got into an accident. I’m in trouble. I’ll pass the phone to the officer, he’ll fill you in”. Here’s what happened next.

Editorial note: Sergey Dolya, the author of this post is one of the most popular Russian bloggers. This story has happened recently with one of his friends. As it turned

The popular mobile messaging service WhatsApp released WhatsApp Web late last month. The service will allow users to run WhatsApp on their favorite Web browser — so long as their

One morning when I was in a hurry to get to work, everything went wrong in an instant: an SMS message alerted me to an $80 charge to my credit card for a purchase that I never made.

Avoid becoming a victim as some of our friends did, watch your card closely.

It’s getting harder and harder to spot fraudulent online retailers as more and more websites peddling discounted good emerge in the already crowded field of Internet merchants.