Tag: Cybercriminals
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AI Is Getting Really Good at Messing With Cybercriminals
Anti-cybercrime initiatives are increasingly using AI to scam the scammers by tricking them into talking to lifelike bots that they think …
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How Identity Theft Happens: 10 Common Tactics Cybercriminals Use (And How to Protect Yourself)
Identity theft is no longer something that only happens to celebrities or wealthy individuals. Today, anyone with an email address, …
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Cybercriminals Bypass AI Safety Controls by Splitting Malicious Tasks Across Multiple Sessions
Criminals have been defeating the safety controls on commercial AI tools by splitting malicious work across multiple sessions and files, …
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Cybercriminals Plant Malicious AI Agents in Open Source Tool Repositories
Cybercriminals are increasingly turning to AI agents and chatbots to autonomously plan and carry out cyber-attacks, according to new …
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Cybercriminals abused GitHub, YouTube and VirusTotal to push crypto-stealing malware
A cryptocurrency-stealing malware campaign used inflated GitHub activity, software reviews, YouTube tutorials and favorable VirusTotal …
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Cybercriminals Are Worried About AI Taking Their Jobs Too
Cybercriminals are experiencing the same worries as many employees working in legitimate jobs: many are worried that the rise of AI tools …
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Cybercriminals mask malicious communications through Microsoft Teams relays
The DragonForce ransomware group used a custom malware called Backdoor.Turn to hide command-and-control traffic inside Microsoft Teams …
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Cybercriminals are moving away from mass phishing campaigns
Phishing activity declined by roughly 20% in both 2024 and 2025, according to research from Zscaler’s ThreatLabz team. The drop followed …
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Infosecurity Europe: How Proton Fights Against Cybercriminals Using Its Services
It has become common to observe cyber threat actors using a ProtonMail email address to run their operations. The result is that the …
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Cybercriminals sail away with data from 6 million Carnival customers
Carnival Corporation, one of the world’s largest cruise operators, confirmed a data breach weeks after the ShinyHunters hacking group …
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How Cybercriminals Exploit Digital Ad Networks for Financial Gain
in 2025. Globally, ad fraud losses ran to approximately $41 billion in the same …
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