Fraud

Ghost Student Fraud Is a Digital Identity Failure

2026-03-03 Per Henrikson

Microsoft flags phishing campaign abusing Entra ID, Google OAuth links

2026-03-02 Per Henrikson

Dubai Police Warn of Digital Identity Fraud Attempts

2026-03-02 Ian Fleming

Canadian Tire E-Commerce Database Breach Exposes Data of 38 Million Customer Accounts in 2025

2026-03-01 Ian Fleming

In October 2025, Canadian Tire experienced a significant data breach impacting approximately 38 million customer accounts. The breach resulted in the exposure of personally identifiable information (PII), including names, email addresses, phone numbers, physical addresses, dates of birth, and encrypted passwords.

Deepfakes become an enterprise risk for CIOs and CISOs

2026-02-26 Per Henrikson

Deepfakes and other AI-generated content are escalating enterprise risk. Find out what steps CIOs and CISOs must implement.

AI in Cybersecurity: 7 Urgent Threats From Phishing to Deepfakes

2026-02-22 Per Henrikson

AI in cybersecurity is reshaping phishing, deepfakes, scams in 2026. Learn the threats, detection limits, human habits needed to survive synthetic deception.

Roblox's AI Age Verification Sparks Privacy Concerns Among UAE Parents

2026-02-08 Per Henrikson

In a detailed investigation, Wired documented multiple cases in which Roblox’s AI incorrectly estimated users’ ages, sometimes placing adults into teenage categories and, in other instances, classifying children as adults.

Deepfake scams are now happening at an industrial scale, study warns

2026-02-07 Ian Fleming

Deepfake attacks are now seen in 3 main vectrs: Video impersonation of celebrities and politicians for product endorsements, Fake job interviews conducted with AI-generated visuals, Audio scams posing as trusted contacts seeking urgent assistance.

Deepfake fraud taking place on an industrial scale, study finds

2026-02-06 Ian Fleming

AI content for scams can be targeted at individuals and ‘produced by pretty much anybody’, researchers say.

New Password-Stealing Phishing Campaign Targets Dropbox Credentials

2026-02-03 Per Henrikson

Multi-stage attack begins with fake message relating to business requests and evades detection with link hidden in a PDF

Deepfake-related fraud racks up $1bn in 2025

2026-02-02 Ian Fleming

According to cybersecurity experts at Surfshark, 2025 experienced a massive surge in deepfake-related fraud losses. The numbers climbed over $1,1-billion, tripling from $360-million in 2024, and marking a staggering ninefold increase from the $128-million total recorded between 2020 and 2023.

Deepfake fraud: The psychological traps behind the tech

2026-01-31 Ian Fleming

In today’s overstimulated digital world, people - especially younger users - are increasingly vulnerable to sophisticated online scams, according to Associate Professor Tran Thanh Nam of the Vietnam-France Institute of Psychology.