Kenyan jobseeker Duncan Okindo was trafficked to Myanmar under false promises of work in Thailand, where he endured forced labor in a scam ...

Keanu Reeves is tackling fake social media accounts. Scammers use his image for ads and romance scams. Reeves employs a firm to remove thes...

Beth Hyland, a Michigan resident, fell victim to a romance scam, losing $26,000 to a con artist using deepfake technology. Scammers are usi...

Online scams have grown into a global industry with connections to countries like Russia and China. Cybercrime, now a national security iss...

Valentine's Day scams are on the rise, especially on Facebook and Instagram, where fraudsters create fake profiles to trap victims. These r...

A McAfee study reveals a significant increase in AI-driven romance scams, with 70% of online daters targeted for money and gifts. Among Ind...

The scammers deceived 53-year-old Anne, into believing that she was in a romantic relationship with a 61-year-old Hollywood actor Brad Pitt...

A French woman, identified as Anne, was scammed out of $850,000 by fraudsters posing as Brad Pitt using AI-generated images and fake social...

Indian authorities have started a fresh investigation into Byju’s financing and accounting practices. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.

Cyber crime syndicates accumulated up to $37 billion last year and are increasing their activities in Southeast Asia. Despite law enforceme...

The "pig butchering" scam ensnared Shreya Datta, a tech professional from Philadelphia, in a devastating cryptocurrency romance fraud, resu...

Check Point Research has reported a 39% increase in new domains with "Valentine" or "love," with 1 in 8 being malicious. Stay cautious of p...

39% of Indians saying their conversations with a potential love interest online turned out to be with a scammer!

Powered by AI and deepfake, many fraudsters have channelised cutting-edge technology to scam vulnerable people, desperate to meet their sou...

Cybersecurity firm McAfee has found in a survey that 77% of Indians have come across fake profiles and photos generated using AI tools crea...

Online scams, deepfake porn and romance bots can be incredibly dangerous in the hands of criminals.

In the wrong hands, generative AI could do untold damage. There's a lot we stand to lose, should laws and regulation fail to keep up.