As rents, home prices, and inflation surge in today’s highly competitive real estate market, the FBI Boston Division is warning the public about the risk of rental scams, and the need to be cautious when posting and responding to rental [...]
A total of $15.9 million has been lost to fraud schemes in Utah just this year, according to a report from the Federal Trade Commission's Sentinel Network. Out of the top 10 report categories, imposter scams ranked the highest — [...]
The Justice Department announced today a coordinated international operation against Genesis Market, a criminal online marketplace that advertised and sold packages of account access credentials – such as usernames and passwords for email, bank accounts, and social media – that [...]
Ray Brewer, 66, of Porterville, and Sheridan, Montana, pleaded guilty today to wire fraud, money laundering, and identity theft charges for running a multimillion-dollar fraud scheme where he purported to t, U.S. Attorney Phillip A. Talbert announced. According to court [...]
"After announcing its new Edge browser and updated Bing search engine that integrates a ChatGPT experience via OpenAI last week, Microsoft opened up a waitlist for the feature. Now the first users are getting access to the capability. However, it’s only [...]
The Blank Image Attack is where hackers are placing blank images within HTML attachments. When opening the attachment, the user is automatically redirected to a malicious URL. Vector: Email Type: Malware Techniques: Social Engineering, Blank Image, HTML Redirect Target: Any [...]
The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) warns of an increase in complaints reporting the use of deepfakes and stolen Personally Identifiable Information (PII) to apply for a variety of remote work and work-at-home positions. Deepfakes include a video, an [...]
The U.S. Secret Service reports that impostors using stolen identities have received hundreds of millions of dollars in fraudulent unemployment benefits in states across the country. These sophisticated criminals, often based overseas, file unemployment claims using Social Security numbers and [...]