Fraud

How to Bypass Reddit Age Verification in the UK using VPN

2025-07-27 Per Henrikson

Will UK porn age verification stop children seeing adult content?

2025-07-24 Ian Fleming

How Meta enables deepfake financial scams — and EU AI Act isn't fixing it

2025-07-15 Ian Fleming

How deepfake AI job applicants are stealing remote work

2025-07-11 Ian Fleming

By 2028, 1 in 4 job candidates worldwide will be fake, according to research and advisory firm Gartner.

Anti-fraud technology employed withAustralian states' digital drivers licenses may be “invalid” and easy to make

2025-07-06 Ian Fleming

Cybersecurity experts say anti-fraud technology employed with multiple states' digital drivers licenses is “invalid” and easy to make.

Airline Qantas data breach sees up to 6M customer records at risk

2025-07-02 Ian Fleming

A Qantas data breach resulting from a cybersecurity attack has put up to 6M customer records at risk of exposure, with names, email addresses, phone numbers, and dates of birth confirmed to be included. The hack was of a contact center database operated by one of the airline’s partners.

North Korea’s BlueNoroff uses deepfakes in Zoom calls to hack crypto workers

2025-06-20 Per Henrikson

A fake Zoom extension disguised as support software delivered malware to a Web3 worker's Mac device via Telegram.

Cybercriminals Turn Data Brokers, Europol Warns

2025-06-15 Ian Fleming

Cybercriminals increasingly treat data not just as a target, but as currency. Europol’s 2025 threat assessment details how LLMs, infostealers, and encrypted platforms are fueling a global data black market.

ISO’s mDL standard can’t guarantee issue trustworthiness

2025-06-13 Per Henrikson

The fear that the server retrieval capability supported by the ISO/IEC 18013 standard for mobile driver’s licenses (mDLs) could be activated without the consent of the digital ID’s holder to “phone home” and track their activity has ignited a public debate.

U.S. Department of Education to Implement New Identity Validation Processes to Combat Student Aid Fraud

2025-06-08 Ian Fleming

Today, the U.S. Department of Education announced it will launch a nationwide effort to eliminate identity theft and fraud in the federal student aid programs for the fall 2025 semester to protect taxpayers while significantly reducing the administrative

REAL ID Text Scam Targeting Idahoans

2025-06-05 Ian Fleming

The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) is issuing an urgent statewide warning to Idaho residents regarding a sophisticated scam circulating via text message. These fraudulent messages falsely claim individuals can pay online to obtain or expedite a REAL ID, also known as a Star Card.

'Likely Scam': New registry to help identify scam text messages launches

2025-06-04 Ian Fleming

A registry has been established for organisations who send text messages to their customers, such as banks, delivery services, insurance providers, to register their sender IDs.