Another day, another series of cryptocurrency scams… …these, fortunately, brought to a halt, though sadly not before they’d defrauded “investors” around the globe to the tune of millions of dollars. According to Europol, 216 people were questioned in Bulgaria, Cyprus, Germany and Serbia; 15 have already been arrested; 22 searches were conducted, including at four […]
DOUG. SIM swapping, zero-days, the [dramatic voice] P-i-n-g of D-E-A-T-H, and LastPass… again. All that, and more, on the Naked Security podcast. [MUSICAL MODEM] Welcome to the podcast everybody. I am Doug Aamoth. With me, as always, is Paul Ducklin. Paul, how do you do? DUCK. Very well, Doug. You put some high drama sound into that […]
A Florida man who was part of a cybercrime gang who went after cryptocoin wallets has been sentenced for his part in a cyberheist that allegedly netted the participants more than $20,000,000. The scammers, including one Nicholas Truglia, 25, got control of various online accounts belonging to the victim by using a trick known in […]
In a fascinating legal deliberation handed down by the French data protection regulator CNIL (Commission Nationale de l’Informatique et des Libertés), the energy company Électricité de France, or EDF for short, has been fined EUR 600,000 (about $600,000). The legal declaration is, in the manner of such things, rather long and (to non-lawyers, at least) […]
These days, most of us have telephones that display the number that’s calling before we answer. This “feature” actually goes right back to the 1960s, and it’s known in North American English as Caller ID, although it doesn’t actually identify the caller, just the caller’s number. Elsewhere in the English-speaking world, you’ll see the name […]
Security specialist John Shier tells you the “news you can really use” – how to boost your cybersecurity based on real-world advice from the 2023 Sophos Threat Report. [MUSICAL MODEM] DUCK. Hello, everybody – welcome to the Naked Security Podcast. As you can hear, I am Duck, not Doug. Doug is on vacation for… I was […]
Over the past year, we’ve had the unfortunate need to warn our readers not once, but twice, about a scam we’ve dubbed CryptoRom, a portmanteau word formed from the terms “Cryptocurrency” and “Romance scam”. Simply put, these scammers use a variety of techniques, notably including prowling on dating sites, to meet people online, form a […]