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New Steam scams trick users into giving up money or account access.

In this week’s edition of Kaspersky Lab’s podcast, Jeff and Dave discuss a Ethereum scam in Twitter, China’s surveillance glasses, and iPhone source code on GitHub.

Attackers pretending to be acquaintances asking for money — the story is old, the approaches new. We show you how to avoid the e-bait.

In this week’s edition of the Transatlantic Cable podcast, we discuss Equifax, PornHub, pulled AI and more.

Modern technology actually helps phone scammers — what you need to know to stay safe.

What do you suppose the click-through rate is for links received by men in dating app messages from attractive women? Take a guess — 1%? 5%? 15%? According to research

At this time of year, the number of tax scams reaches a peak, with fraudsters looking for any chance to cash in on consumers, the self-employed, and small businesses that

A few years ago, a criminal gang in India was making easy money off tech-illiterate people in Europe, Australia, and Great Britain. They did quite well until they encountered Kaspersky

Black Friday and Cyber Monday, followed by the Christmas sales are high season for cybercriminals: as you’re trying to get that shiny new TV or pair of jeans for the

When ransomware hits, it’s natural to wonder if it might be worth paying the ransom to get your electronic life back with a minimum of hassle. At Kaspersky Lab, we

The story behind the post is plain and simple: yet another bad guy or a group of bag guys have decided to spread their malicious browser extension using Facebook. While

A few months ago, we were approached by the Dutch TV show Opgelicht?!, which discusses various types of fraud. One of the subjects discussed was the “We-Cycle” phishing campaign where

April 15 is a day that lives in infamy in the hearts of Americans. Now this date is not significant for any holiday, but rather the day that the Tax

Fraudsters hacked Skype and tricked people from a contact list to send them about $5,000 over the course of a few days. Skype support, local banks and the police refused to do anything.

Phishing is the most developed form of Internet scamming. Let’s explore the topic in order to better understand why it became so prominent and what measures one can take to avoid a phishing attack.

Beware of phishing, malware, spam and other online scams based on the extremely popular ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

Internet scammers are quite smart and greedy, and know how to disguise their traps, but there are always some ways to find out where these traps are.

If it is absolutely necessary that you check your email and the only way to do it is on a public computer, forward your email to a disposable email account like Mailinotor or Trashmail that has a short life and a timed expiration.

A Brazilian cybercriminal scam targeting a popular payment method known as Boletos is costing that country billions. How can you protect yourself?

It’s getting harder and harder to spot fraudulent online retailers as more and more websites peddling discounted good emerge in the already crowded field of Internet merchants.

Major sporting events always attract the attention of cybercriminals, and there’s no reason to think the Brazil World Cup will be any different. With group stage matches kicking off in