Thousands of migrants without money, or people who lost their jobs due to the Covid-19 pandemic in Southeast Asia, are victims of forced recruitment by cybercriminal mafias under threats.
According to a report by the UN Human Rights Office, thousands of people are recruited by online criminal gangs…
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Hotel booking scams are coming back to emails
Scams typical of summer have begun to appear, one of them being known as the false hotel reservation, which seeks to steal the victim's email credentials to access sensitive data and promote new attacks.
In recent years, it has become…
Belarus seeks to ban cryptocurrency exchange
The Belarusian Ministry of Foreign Affairs is currently in the process of reviewing legislation to ban peer-to-peer (P2P) transactions of cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin (BTC).
On July 2, the ministry issued an official statement on…
Researchers identify fake apps in Google and Apple that invite o invest in cryptocurrencies
A group of researchers has identified different applications available through the App Store and Play Store that carry out a social engineering attack by which they encourage their victims to invest in cryptocurrencies.
Security-focused…
Expert tips for a safer relationship with social networks
Social networks have become an important part of everyday life for millions of people around the world. However, experts warn that the entertainment provided by these platforms can sometimes make users forget something as fundamental as…
MaliBot: the latest malware that threatens Android smartphones
MaliBot was discovered last June, a banking malware that has become one of the most terrible threats for Android smartphone users, because it can steal passwords, bank details and even the contents of users' cryptocurrency wallets.
The…
Common cyber scams on Black Friday
Black Friday is celebrated every November 26, and businesses take the opportunity to settle discounts and offers that attract consumers. In many cases such offers are used by criminals to deceive with false free products or impersonating a…
Scams moved from the street to the online system
Cybersecurity experts are warning of a situation that arises as a result of the pandemic and that they have dubbed 'mutant scams'. These are frauds that before Covid-19 were committed at street level and that have now made the leap into the…
Data of more than 500 million Facebook accounts published by hackers
Data of more than 500 million Facebook users were compromised and published in a hacker forum. The information included emails and phone numbers of the users, as confirmed this Saturday by a cybercrime expert from magazine Business Insider.…
EMOTET network was dismantled by authorities of several countries
Police forces from different countries disarmed one of the most dangerous cybercrime networks in the world, known as EMOTET.
It operated with botnet-type software, which consists of a computer program that is responsible for infecting the…
Germany starts one of the largest cyber-attack trials
One of Germany's largest cybercrime trials began today in the city of Trier in relation to a cyber bunker allegedly operated by eight people in the municipality of Traben-Trarbach, in the center-east of the country.
The prosecution accuses…
Microsoft vulnerability is a risk for companies in the world
The security breach labeled CVSS 10.0, the highest possible dangerousness score, would allow the cybercriminal to perform malicious DNS (domain name system) queries to the Windows server, and to achieve arbitrary code execution that could…