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What is Swatting? How Fake Emergency Calls Turn Deadly

Cyber pranks have increased in the past few years. There is a fine line between playing a prank and harassing someone. People in the excitement of playing a prank often land themselves and others in trouble. On the other hand, some individuals harass others due to a dispute or revenge. On most occasions, victims narrowly escape the harassment against them, but sometimes, they pay severe consequences in the form of property damage, injury, or even death.

Is It Or Is It Not an HP Scam?

These days it can be hard to tell if something is or isn’t a scam. Take this email I recently received. It claims to be from HP. It included a PDF file attachment: It would be great if it actually told me the product it was referring to beyond some obscure serial number. I checked the serial number. It didn’t match my HP printer sitting next to my desk. All my laptops and older desktop computers are Dell. I didn’t like how it didn’t have my full name. Just Roger. No product name.

How Business Verification Can Protect Your Organization from Digital Fraud Rings

The modern business environment is hyperconnected, and cybercriminals don't always use malware or phishing to achieve their goals. The trend of disguising themselves as a legitimate business is quite clear. They create fake corporate identities and gain access to networks, contracts, and capital. Sometimes, even the most advanced cybersecurity systems are not enough to stop this from happening. Having a smart firewall is hardly enough if an enterprise is transacting with a fraudulent business. The security becomes compromised.

Report: More Than Half of Adults Encountered a Scam Last Year

Researchers at Bitdefender warn that scams are seeing a steady increase globally. Citing a recent report from the Global Anti-Scam Alliance (GASA), the researchers note that 57% of adults worldwide have reported encountering a scam in the past year, and 13% encounter a scam at least once per day. One in four adults lost money to a scam, and annual global scam losses now exceed $1 trillion.

Phishing Campaign Impersonates Google Careers Recruiters

A phishing campaign is impersonating Google Careers to target job seekers, according to researchers at Sublime Security. “The scam is simple,” the researchers write. “An adversary sends an ‘are you open to talk?’ message impersonating an outreach email from Google Careers. If the target clicks the link, they’re taken to a landing page designed to look like a Google Careers meeting scheduler. From there, they’re taken to the phishing page.

Brute Force Attack Prevention: Why Rate Limiting Isn't Enough for ATO Defense

A brute force attack is a method cybercriminals use to guess login credentials through repeated attempts until one works. It’s a simple idea that’s evolved into one of the most persistent enablers of account takeover (ATO). According to the 2024 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report, brute force and credential-stuffing techniques accounted for nearly 70% of all password-related breaches that year, underscoring how these attacks remain a dominant entry point for ATO.

Clickjacking and Hidden Redirects: The Overlooked Brand Impersonation Threat

Note: Classic clickjacking typically targets authenticated users on legitimate sites, while this article explores its broader use in redirect-based impersonation scenarios. Clickjacking is a UI redress attack that tricks users into clicking hidden elements, often redirecting them to spoofed landing pages that impersonate trusted brands. Once dismissed as a browser quirk, it is now a silent bridge between user interaction and large-scale brand impersonation campaigns.

The Rise of Phantom Cyber Firms: How to Spot Them and What to Verify Before You Engage

It’s bad enough that organizations must worry about threat actors launching phishing attacks, injecting ransomware, or exploiting vulnerabilities; now, there is a new attack variant on the loose. Legal scammers. These are companies, which seem to be emerging particularly in Australia, are set up and registered as legal cybersecurity firms, but in the end just take a company’s money without delivering any services.

Why Africa's banks must recognize that trust is at the root of fraud prevention

As digital fraud rises across Africa, INETCO’s Eren Ramdhani explains why banks must rebuild trust through real-time, AI-driven fraud systems. Article by cybersecurity leader and INETCO’s Chief Product Officer, Eren Ramdhani Trust is the most valuable currency in today’s digital economy. For banks, it determines whether customers feel confident enough to save, invest, and transact. Yet across Africa, millions of people face daily fraud attacks that threaten that trust.

What Technologies Make Online Money Transfers Secure?

A 2022 report by the Bank for International Settlements suggests that about $7.5 trillion is transferred daily around the globe. For context, the U.S. federal government spent $7.01 trillion in its 2025 fiscal year, which ran from October 2024 to September 2025, according to the U.S. Treasury Fiscal Data. Basically, this implies that about 7% more money is traded on the foreign exchange market daily than the U.S federal government spends annually.