Fraud

Kids Say They're Using Photos of Trump and Markiplier to Bypass 'Gorilla Tag' Age Verification

2025-05-21 Ian Fleming

Deepfake voice scams target US officials in phishing surge

2025-05-18 Per Henrikson

FBI warns of fake texts, deepfake calls impersonating senior U.S. officials

2025-05-15 Ian Fleming

CNN: Watch cybersecurity expert fool a deepfake detector

2025-05-15 Ian Fleming

With AI technology creating more and more realistic deepfakes, detectors are not up to the challenge of realizing what is real and what is fake, according to an industry expert.

KnowBe4 Predicts Agentic AI Ransomware is ‘imminent on International Anti-Ransomware Day’

2025-05-12 Per Henrikson

New type of ransomware that utilises agentic AI for faster, more effective attacks anticipated to become a threat.

Hackers Allegedly Breach TikTok, Exposing Over 900,000 Usernames & Passwords

2025-04-25 Per Henrikson

A hacking collective identifying itself as R00TK1T has claimed responsibility for a massive data breach affecting TikTok, allegedly exposing the credentials of more than 900,000 users.

North Koreans use real-time deepfake tech to hide identities in job interviews

2025-04-23 Per Henrikson

North Korean IT workers have begun using real-time deepfake technology to conceal their true identities during job interviews, according to a U.S. cybersecurity firm, highlighting the increasing sophistication of their remote work schemes to raise money for the sanctioned regime.

IBM X-Force reports evolving threat landscape amid shifting tactics, marking rise in stealth and identity exploits

2025-04-21 Per Henrikson

“Cybercriminals are most often breaking in without breaking anything – capitalizing on identity gaps overflowing from complex hybrid cloud environments that offer attackers multiple access points.”

Palo Alto's Unit 42 Demonstrates the Alarming Ease of Synthetic Identity Creation

2025-04-21 Per Henrikson

North Korean IT workers are reportedly using real-time deepfakes to secure remote work, raising serious security concerns. We explore the implications. North Korean IT workers are reportedly using real-time deepfakes to secure remote work, raising serious security concerns. We explore the implications.

Sensitive PII of millions leaked in historic Moroccan data breach

2025-04-10 Per Henrikson

The data breach is a wake-up call for Morocco’s public and private sectors as the North African country undergoes rapid digitization.

AI technologies such as ChatGPT can generate fake India Aadhaar cards

2025-04-05 Per Henrikson

As per reports, AI can create photorealistic fake identification documents, such as Aadhaar and PAN cards. This has raised security concerns among taxpayers and citizens. India fights these attempts by using new secure QR codes containing encrypted data that can only be deciphered by authorised scanners.

Breach at FacePass, Brazilian facial recognition and identification app, exposed over 1.6 million files

2025-03-30 Per Henrikson

Over 1.6 million files containing sensitive user data and internal system credentials were left unsecured in a misconfigured Amazon Web Services (AWS) S3 bucket.

Kids Say They're Using Photos of Trump and Markiplier to Bypass 'Gorilla Tag' Age Verification

Deepfake voice scams target US officials in phishing surge

FBI warns of fake texts, deepfake calls impersonating senior U.S. officials

CNN: Watch cybersecurity expert fool a deepfake detector

KnowBe4 Predicts Agentic AI Ransomware is ‘imminent on International Anti-Ransomware Day’

Hackers Allegedly Breach TikTok, Exposing Over 900,000 Usernames & Passwords

North Koreans use real-time deepfake tech to hide identities in job interviews

IBM X-Force reports evolving threat landscape amid shifting tactics, marking rise in stealth and identity exploits

Palo Alto's Unit 42 Demonstrates the Alarming Ease of Synthetic Identity Creation

Sensitive PII of millions leaked in historic Moroccan data breach

AI technologies such as ChatGPT can generate fake India Aadhaar cards

Breach at FacePass, Brazilian facial recognition and identification app, exposed over 1.6 million files

iDenfy and iGaming Express optimise remote ID verification in regulated markets

Kids Say They're Using Photos of Trump and Markiplier to Bypass 'Gorilla Tag' Age Verification

The Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) and Finternet Lab partner on digital ID and transaction infrastructure

Google Chrome Desktop issues cross-device Digital Credentials API

Somaila, Mauritania, Tanzania, Benin, Malawi making digital ID gains in the face of common challenges