Browsing: scams

The notion that scammers can use AI to sharpen their deceptions, polish their language, and lubricate their banter with victims…

More than two dozen suspected new scam compounds in war-torn Myanmar have been built or expanded significantly in the past…

Phia, a shopping browser extension that helps people find deals across the web, is in hot water.The buzzy startup, cofounded…

Adult content creator Laura Lux says she has been publishing pictures of herself online for almost two decades. She primarily…

Brothers Patrick and Ryan Coughlin, each with impressive careers in the tech industry (Patrick worked in national cyber defense, and…

For our very first WIRED Book Club livestream, Kate Knibbs will be joined by the author of The Yahoo Boys:…

Would you run into a crowded university lecture hall, fart into a megaphone, and bellow “fartcoin” at the top of…

A new lawsuit filed by the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC) is a showcase of how hard it’s become to…

Google is suing to dismantle the infrastructure behind an alleged massive AI-powered cybercrime operation. On Friday, the tech giant announced…

Google announced on Tuesday that Android is launching fake call detection to protect against AI deepfake impersonation scams. The feature…

I’ve been covering spam calling for years, so when Google offered me details about a new Android feature built to…

You can find anything on Amazon—plus thousands of versions of that thing. If its virtual shelves were translated into a…

“We would not say that every single phishing message we observed was definitively caused by a direct compromise of the…

Every year, millions of phones are stolen. While thousands of iPhones are shipped to China and broken down for parts,…

There’s another type of digital scam to be aware of, as per the BBC. It’s called “reservation hijacking.”The name gives…

The complaint sounds familiar. “I’m disappointed that you are working to incorporate AI garbage into the site,” one annoyed person,…