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Ukrainian hacker pleads guilty to running OnlyFake AI ID scam site

Ukrainian hacker pleads guilty to running OnlyFake AI ID scam site

AndyC 3 March 2026

Ukrainian hacker pleads guilty to running OnlyFake AI ID scam site Pierluigi Paganini March 02, 2026 Ukrainian citizen Yurii Nazarenko...

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Meta Files Lawsuits Against Brazil, China, Vietnam Advertisers Over Celeb-Bait Scams

Meta Files Lawsuits Against Brazil, China, Vietnam Advertisers Over Celeb-Bait Scams

AndyC 28 February 2026

Ravie LakshmananFeb 27, 2026Online Scam / Digital Advertising Meta on Thursday said it's taking legal action to tackle scams on...

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North Korean IT worker scam nets Ukrainian five-year sentence in the U.S.

North Korean IT worker scam nets Ukrainian five-year sentence in the U.S.

AndyC 21 February 2026

North Korean IT worker scam nets Ukrainian five-year sentence in the U.S. Pierluigi Paganini February 20, 2026 A Ukrainian man...

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Red Card 2.0: INTERPOL busts scam networks across Africa, seizes millions

Red Card 2.0: INTERPOL busts scam networks across Africa, seizes millions

AndyC 21 February 2026

Red Card 2.0: INTERPOL busts scam networks across Africa, seizes millions Pierluigi Paganini February 20, 2026 INTERPOL’s Operation Red Card...

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Blockchain & Fraud Prevention: Strategies to overcome the cryptocurrency scam

Blockchain & Fraud Prevention: Strategies to overcome the cryptocurrency scam

AndyC 3 February 2026

Cryptocurrency has revolutionized financial transactions, offering speed, anonymity, and decentralization. However, the rise of cryptoscams has become a significant concern...

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Blockchain & Fraud Prevention: Strategies to overcome the cryptocurrency scam

Blockchain & Fraud Prevention: Strategies to overcome the cryptocurrency scam

AndyC 2 February 2026

Cryptocurrency has revolutionized financial transactions, offering speed, anonymity, and decentralization. However, the rise of cryptoscams has become a significant concern...

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Love? Actually: Fake dating app used as lure in targeted spyware campaign in Pakistan

Love? Actually: Fake dating app used as lure in targeted spyware campaign in Pakistan

AndyC 29 January 2026

ESET researchers have uncovered an Android spyware campaign leveraging romance scam tactics to target individuals in Pakistan. The campaign uses...

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Smashing Security podcast #452: The dark web’s worst assassins, and Pegasus in the dock

Smashing Security podcast #452: The dark web’s worst assassins, and Pegasus in the dock

AndyC 29 January 2026

In episode 452, a London-based YouTuber wins a landmark court case against Saudi Arabia after his phone was hacked with...

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How SMBs use threat research and MDR to build a defensive edge

How SMBs use threat research and MDR to build a defensive edge

AndyC 6 March 2026

Corporate IT and security teams have the unenviable task of keeping relentless and increasingly sophisticated adversaries at bay. They’re often faced with limited resources and...

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Protecting education: How MDR can tip the balance in favor of schools

Protecting education: How MDR can tip the balance in favor of schools

AndyC 5 March 2026

Business Security The education sector is notoriously short on cash, but rich in assets for threat actors to target. How can managed detection and response...

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This month in security with Tony Anscombe – February 2026 edition

This month in security with Tony Anscombe – February 2026 edition

AndyC 1 March 2026

In this roundup, Tony looks at how opportunistic threat actors are taking advantage of weak authentication, unmanaged exposure, and popular AI tools 28 Feb 2026...

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Mobile app permissions (still) matter more than you may think

Mobile app permissions (still) matter more than you may think

AndyC 28 February 2026

Mobile Security Start using a new app and you’ll often be asked to grant it permissions. But blindly accepting them could expose you to serious...

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Faking it on the phone: How to tell if a voice call is AI or not

Faking it on the phone: How to tell if a voice call is AI or not

AndyC 24 February 2026

Can you believe your ears? Increasingly, the answer is no. Here’s what’s at stake for your business, and how to beat the deepfakers. Phil Muncaster...

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PromptSpy ushers in the era of Android threats using GenAI

PromptSpy ushers in the era of Android threats using GenAI

AndyC 20 February 2026

ESET researchers uncovered the first known case of Android malware abusing generative AI for context-aware user interface manipulation. While machine learning has been used to...

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Middle East Conflict Fuels Opportunistic Cyber Attacks

USENIX Security ’25 (Enigma Track) – Please (Don’t) Stop The Music: Adversarial Red-Teaming Of AI Music Generation Models

AndyC 7 March 2026

Gov’t IT spending seen as key to building Europe’s tech ecosystem

ClickFix attackers using new tactic to evade detection, says Microsoft

AndyC 7 March 2026

Cisco flags ongoing exploitation of two recently patched Catalyst SD-WAN flaws

Cisco flags ongoing exploitation of two recently patched Catalyst SD-WAN flaws

AndyC 7 March 2026

Microsoft warns of ClickFix campaign exploiting Windows Terminal to deliver Lumma Stealer

Microsoft warns of ClickFix campaign exploiting Windows Terminal to deliver Lumma Stealer

AndyC 7 March 2026

Analysis: Blast Radius for Third-Party Breaches Bigger Than Reported

How hackers bypassed MFA with a $120 phishing kit – until a global takedown shut it down

AndyC 7 March 2026