Results for 'fraud'
Investment fraud a serious money maker for criminals
January 3, 2024 - Europols’s spotlight report ‘Online fraud schemes: a web of deceit’, identifies investment fraud as a major threat.
Ad fraud
Short bio Advertising (ad) fraud, also called click fraud or click spam, is a practice by bad actors, specifically dubious advertising networks,...
Investment fraud overtakes business email compromise as most reported fraud
March 14, 2023 - The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has published its 2022 Internet Crime Report. One of the most notable points is that investment...
DeepStreamer: Illegal movie streaming platforms hide lucrative ad fraud operation
March 8, 2023 - This investigation was a joint effort between Malwarebytes Threat Intelligence’s Jérôme Segura, DeepSee’s Rocky Moss and Antonio Torres. Key findings Introduction...
WordPress sites backdoored with ad fraud plugin
February 16, 2023 - WordPress is an immensely popular content management system (CMS) powering over 43% of all websites. Many webmasters will monetize their sites...
VASTFLUX ad fraud massively affected millions of iOS devices, dismantled
January 24, 2023 - Researchers have successfully dismantled a massive ad fraud campaign they stumbled upon by accident. The Satori Threat Intelligence and Research Team dubbed...
Credit card fraud group member could get up to 30 years in jail
January 20, 2023 - Card fraud, a staple diet of scammers online, is currently featuring heavily on the US Department of Justice portal. The reason?...