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Have you issued a bank card? Congratulations, you are being targeted by scammers. If you think that no one will deceive you, danger can creep up unnoticed: a harmless call on a familiar bank number can easily turn out to be fatal. Even a simple situation like selling a smartphone through an...

Over the past 5 years, the number of cybercrimes using the Internet and mobile communications has increased 11 times. The number of thefts from bank accounts or electronic wallets in 2024 increased to 169 thousand cases - for comparison, in 2023 there were almost 94 thousand. SberBank clients...

I needed to withdraw money from PayPal in Russia, but I didn’t want to work through intermediaries. I had to get a Payoneer card to withdraw PayPal to this card. No matter how much I searched, I never found a complete, step-by-step instruction. That's why I write myself. Go to Payoneer and...

Greetings to all! Today I want to tell you how to avoid scammers who would like to empty your bank accounts. There are several commonly used scams and I will describe one of them. Let's start with the fact that any software has weaknesses. No matter how sophisticated the software is, the vast...

The criminal was sentenced to 10 years for laundering $4.5 million through email hacking and romantic schemes. The US Department of Justice has sentenced a 31-year-old man to 10 years in prison for laundering more than $4.5 million through BEC and romantic fraud. According to court documents...

Since their appearance in December 2017, deepfakes, videos with an almost perfect face replacement created by a neural network, have caused panic among experts. Many, for example, were then afraid that now “revenge porn” would become even easier, when an ex-boyfriend with a sufficiently powerful...

In the era of the Internet, only the lazy did not ask the question: how to earn extra money without leaving home? Right! We need someone who will pay us for our work on the Internet, namely advertisers who are interested in receiving an unlimited number of visitors to their site, and ultimately...

Attackers have come up with a way to steal confidential data unnoticed. According to the Sucuri report, unknown hackers use little-known WordPress plugins to inject malicious PHP code on victims ' websites and steal payment data. On May 11, Sucuri specialists discovered a campaign in which...

Testing paid services is one of the key engineering issues in Badoo testing. Our application is integrated with 70 payment providers in 250 countries, and a bug in at least one of them can lead to unpredictable consequences. In this article, I will talk about the testing methods we use at Badoo...

For many centuries, since the invention of money, there has been a confrontation between currency issuers and counterfeiters. The former use increasingly sophisticated methods of protection, while the latter find ways to counterfeit them. Modern banknotes have such complex security features that...

How to make the most of your time in line at an ATM? We suggest this exercise: imagine that you have X-ray vision, and try to trace the entire path that the bills take inside the device. To make it easier for you to navigate, here is a post about the rich inner world of an ATM. We talk about...

Today in Russia there is a completely normal system of non-cash payments. Of course, the concept of "non-cash" has many synonyms, such as "by bank", etc., but all this is the same essence. In the first part of the article, I will talk a little about the essence of money (what if someone learns...

Microsoft spoke about the tactics of intruders who start hunting on the eve of the holidays. Microsoft published a new Cyber Signals report, in which it shared fresh data on the activities of the Storm-0539 hacker group and a sharp increase in gift card theft on the eve of Memorial Day in the...

The deputy of the Murmansk Regional Duma became a victim of telephone fraudsters right at the meeting. Allegedly, Speaker Sergei Dubovoy called him three times and asked him to urgently lend more than two million rubles. By the end of the day, it turned out that the crooks were speaking in...

The US Department of Justice has filed charges against five people for cyber crimes aimed at financing North Korea's nuclear program. From October 2020 to October 2023, the defendants participated in a campaign organized by the North Korean government to infiltrate the US labor market through...

Individuals who use digital assets to launder money in Taiwan face prison sentences ranging from six months to five years. This follows from the new anti-fraud laws. The package includes: Law on Fraud Prevention and Control. Law on Prevention and Combating Money Laundering. Law on...

How holidays and trustfulness of citizens affect the activity of scammers. Despite an extensive information campaign and warnings, fraudulent schemes that mimic the services of the postal service continue to operate successfully. Akamai found a significant increase in the activity of such...

Turkish police have arrested Utka Erdem, deputy head of the DenizBank branch in Antalya's Manavgat district, and seven other employees of the bank on suspicion of embezzling customer funds and making illegal cryptocurrency transactions. As a result of an inspection conducted at DenizBank, it...

The court recovered 154 thousand rubles from a resident of Kemerovo, who provided fraudsters with their data for registration of a fictitious account, the press service of the Prosecutor's office of the Volgograd region reported. The prosecutor's office conducted a check on the appeal of a...

Victims lose control of their savings, unaware of the hack until the last moment. Cybersecurity experts have discovered a complex multi-stage attack that uses phishing messages with invoice themes to spread a variety of malicious software, including Venom RAT, Remcos RAT, XWorm, NanoCore RAT...