User gets a password reset mail from rnicrosoft.com, everything looks fine until he spots a chilling deceptionA clever scam nearly tricked a Reddit user with a fake Microsoft password reset email. The sender address used a disguised letter to appear...
22 Oct, 2025, 03.56 PM IST
Anthropic thwarts hacker attempts to misuse Claude AI for cybercrimeAnthropic has blocked hackers from misusing its Claude AI to create phishing emails, malicious code, and influence campaigns. The company s...
28 Aug, 2025, 09.08 AM IST
Company demands credit card details from candidates as part of job requirement, gives a reason. But netizens are not convincedA recent job posting online went viral after it required applicants to provide a credit card on file before attending the interview. This l...
24 Feb, 2025, 02.36 PM IST
Beware, these two words in your emails could signal a scam. FBI issues warning and steps to enhance cybersecurityPhishing scams have become more deceptive, with scammers exploiting AI and creating a false sense of urgency using specific phrases. The FB...
24 Jan, 2025, 03.34 PM IST
Gmail users targeted by AI-driven phishing attacksGoogle's anti-scam alliance is struggling to protect Gmail users from AI-driven scams. Cases like Sam Mitrovic's highlight how scammers use...
14 Oct, 2024, 10.44 AM IST
What the arrival of AI phones and computers means for our dataApple, Microsoft, and Google are leading the way in the development of artificially intelligent smartphones and computers, requiring more u...
24 Jun, 2024, 10.20 AM IST
Fraudsters attack Booking.com customers after hacking hotelsThe scam, investigated by cyber-security firm Secureworks, involved deployment of the Vidar infostealer to steal a hotel's Booking.com cred...
03 Dec, 2023, 04.12 PM IST
Phishing attacks up 50%, education sector most targeted: ReportPhishing is a technique that attempts to acquire sensitive data, such as bank account numbers, through a fraudulent solicitation in email o...
18 Apr, 2023, 04.09 PM IST
CBI seeks metadata of 'Yogi' email from Microsoft in NSE co-location scam; MLAT request sent to USThe Central agency needs the data from Microsoft for the email id rigyajursama@outlook.com which was allegedly operated by Subramanian to c...
13 May, 2022, 11.31 PM IST
More Indians fall prey to online fraud, millennials suffer the mostIn India, millennials (aged between 24 and 37) were the most susceptible to such scams in 2021, with 58% of those that continued with the s...
25 Jul, 2021, 04.13 AM IST
Indians encounter most tech support scams; 7 in 10 consumers received fraudulent calls last yearHowever, there was an overall five-point drop in such scam encounters, globally.
23 Jul, 2021, 04.00 PM IST
Why Indians lose most money in tech scamsMicrosoft’s global survey – Global Tech Support Scam Research – that looks at tech support scams and their impact on consumers showed that ...
22 Jul, 2021, 03.01 PM IST
After reports of Rs 15,000 crore land scam, Telangana government sprucing up land records“(With) most of the original records dating to the Nizam period, it gives an opportunity to criminals to tamper with and forge the land doc...
28 Jun, 2017, 10.22 AM IST
There's a fake Windows 10 upgrade email scam that could take over your computerThere's a new Windows 10 upgrade email scam going around that has the ability to take over your computer if you fall for it.
03 Aug, 2015, 12.31 PM IST
Hackers strike email services of Google, Microsoft and YahooCyber-crooks evidently used "phishing" tactics to trick users of free Web-based email service into revealing account and access information.
07 Oct, 2009, 01.05 AM IST
- New Firefox Web browser to be released on Tuesday
A new version of the Firefox Web browser is scheduled for release Tuesday with improvements in security, speed and design.
13 Jun, 2008, 01.43 AM IST
- Beware, phisers target Google!
Phishers are using a fictional Google brand to launch a three-pronged malware assault on users' PCs
08 Jun, 2006, 06.37 PM IST