Fraud

124 Million Unique Passwords Exposed In New Infostealer Log Dataset

2026-06-22 Ian Fleming

Apple users are being targeted by a familiar tech support scam

2026-06-21 Ian Fleming

Hackers leak facial recognition records tied to millions of Madison Square Garden visitors

2026-06-21 Ian Fleming

Fraudsters circumvent phishing links with text messages, offer credit card interest rate reductions in new ID theft schemes

2026-06-19 Ian Fleming

Recent fake job recruitment schemes are stealing victims’ personal information with prompts to respond via text message rather than click on malicious links. Scammers are also extracting identity information from victims with fake offers to reduce credit card interest rates. Plus, a new twist on an old investment scheme.

Android NFC Attacks Surge 188% as Germany Pushes Digital IDs for Cars, Banks, and Driving Licences

2026-06-14 Per Henrikson

Android NFC attacks surge 188% amid Germany's digital ID rollout. Google patches zero-day; experts urge security-first design and data-minimizing proofs.

Gartner urges multilayered defenses as AI deepfakes and LLM threats surge

2026-06-09 Per Henrikson

As deepfakes move beyond preproduced content to real-time generation, the risk that attackers can impersonate identities via multiple channels has grown. This can be exploited for attacks on biometric authentication procedures, real-time social engineering against employees, and disruption of hiring processes.

Google Warns Data Theft Groups Are Impersonating IT Staff to Target Law Firms and Financial Services

2026-06-05 Per Henrikson

Google’s cybersecurity organizations said Friday (June 5) that data theft extortion groups are targeting professional, legal and financial services organizations by impersonating IT support. These groups are posing as IT technicians remotely and in person, Mandiant and Google Threat Intelligence Group wrote in a Friday blog post.

The next big thing in the deepfake reality is reframing

2026-06-02 Ian Fleming

The next deepfake threat is not coming for your bank account. It is coming for your reputation. It’s not the psychological cognitive reframing type - it’s the use of synthetic media to put words, actions and decisions in your mouth that never happened. Not to take your money. But to steal your story and your reputation.

Fraud Trends 2026: AI Scams, Deepfakes, and Emerging Threats

2026-06-01 Per Henrikson

Across 2025 and 2026, the five hardest hit were dating, online media, financial services, crypto, and professional services, with dating and online media each at a 6.3% fraud rate. Banking faces a rising tide of deepfakes and AI-generated paperwork that wears down old verification, leaving the industry little choice but to adopt sharper detection or gamble with customers and system integrity.

Hidden Signals Can Hijack AI Voice Systems

2026-05-17 Per Henrikson

New research shows that hidden audio imperceptible to human ears can hijack AI voice tools, highlighting a vulnerability of the underlying models.

Agentic document processing as a risk source

2026-05-14 Per Henrikson

Injection attacks are not new, and the fact that “flat” systems with embedded LLM-based AI agents have been found to be prone to such vulnerabilities is also not a discovery. Without the ability to distinguish between content and disguised instructions, such systems become defenseless against prompt injections.

Stolen UK Payment Cards Sell for £9 as Dark Web Fraud Market Expands

2026-05-13 Ian Fleming

The low prices do not indicate reduced value in stolen identities. Instead, they reflect oversupply. Criminal marketplaces are now saturated with compromised data sourced from phishing campaigns, infostealer malware, credential stuffing attacks, and legacy corporate breaches.