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Sharing is scaring: The WhatsApp screen-sharing scam you didn’t see coming

Sharing is scaring: The WhatsApp screen-sharing scam you didn’t see coming

Sharing is scaring: The WhatsApp screen-sharing scam you didn’t see coming

How a fast-growing scam is tricking WhatsApp users into revealing their most sensitive financial and other data

Christian Ali Bravo05 Nov 2025


Fraud prevention: How to help older family members avoid scams

Fraud prevention: How to help older family members avoid scams

Fraud prevention: How to help older family members avoid scams

Families that combine open communication with effective behavioral and technical safeguards can cut the risk dramatically

Editor30 Oct 2025


SnakeStealer: How it preys on personal data – and how you can protect yourself

SnakeStealer: How it preys on personal data – and how you can protect yourself

SnakeStealer: How it preys on personal data – and how you can protect yourself

Here’s what to know about the malware with an insatiable appetite for valuable data, so much so that it tops this year's infostealer detection charts

Martina López22 Oct 2025


Minecraft mods: Should you 'hack' your game?

Minecraft mods: Should you 'hack' your game?

Minecraft mods: Should you 'hack' your game?

Some Minecraft mods don’t help build worlds – they break them. Here’s how malware can masquerade as a Minecraft mod.

Fabiana Ramírez Cuenca16 Oct 2025


AI-aided malvertising: Exploiting a chatbot to spread scams

AI-aided malvertising: Exploiting a chatbot to spread scams

AI-aided malvertising: Exploiting a chatbot to spread scams

Cybercriminals have tricked X’s AI chatbot into promoting phishing scams in a technique that has been nicknamed “Grokking”. Here’s what to know about it.

Phil Muncaster13 Oct 2025


How Uber seems to know where you are – even with restricted location permissions

How Uber seems to know where you are – even with restricted location permissions

How Uber seems to know where you are – even with restricted location permissions

Is the ride-hailing app secretly tracking you? Not really, but this iOS feature may make it feel that way.

Tony Anscombe09 Oct 2025


Beware of threats lurking in booby-trapped PDF files

Beware of threats lurking in booby-trapped PDF files

Beware of threats lurking in booby-trapped PDF files

Looks can be deceiving, so much so that the familiar icon could mask malware designed to steal your data and money.

Fabiana Ramírez Cuenca06 Oct 2025


Roblox executors: It’s all fun and games until someone gets hacked

Roblox executors: It’s all fun and games until someone gets hacked

Roblox executors: It’s all fun and games until someone gets hacked

You could be getting more than you bargained for when you download that cheat tool promising quick wins

Christian Ali Bravo and Fabiana Ramírez Cuenca26 Sep 2025


Watch out for SVG files booby-trapped with malware

Watch out for SVG files booby-trapped with malware

Watch out for SVG files booby-trapped with malware

What you see is not always what you get as cybercriminals increasingly weaponize SVG files as delivery vectors for stealthy malware

Camilo Gutiérrez Amaya22 Sep 2025