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Generative AI has taken sextortion techniques to a whole new level — now, any social media user can become a victim. How can you protect yourself and your loved ones?

It feels as if spam is as old as the internet itself. The post looks at the money-making scams devised over the years, and how to avoid them today.

How cybercriminals make money off victims’ love lives.

By hijacking domains with CNAME records and exploiting forgotten SPF records, attackers seize domains and use them for their own purposes.

How to protect your company from mail bombs and other unwanted correspondence using personalized content filtering

During the pre-holiday period, attackers are sending invoices to companies for the delivery of non-existent documents.

How URL shorteners work, how they can be used, and the privacy and security threats they pose.

Cybercriminals are sending to companies high-quality imitations of business letters with a spy trojan in the attachment.

Malicious spam campaign targeting organizations grows 10-fold in a month, spreads Qbot and Emotet malware.

We reveal more cunning cybercriminal tricks and explain how to guard against scams.

Five signs you’re dealing with scammers.

Attackers are trying to steal credentials from corporate mail by sending lists of quarantined spam e-mails.

We look at some examples of LinkedIn phishing and explain how everyone can avoid taking the bait.

Received a confirmation e-mail for a purchase you didn’t make with a phone number to contact the company? Beware, it’s vishing.

Spammers are using malicious macros to distribute IcedID and Qbot banking malware in seemingly important documents.

People are receiving phishing e-mail messages with requests for payments for a package delivery, with links to a fake postal service website for making the payment.

Our method for training models to filter out spam lets you maintain privacy without losing efficiency.

To bypass antiphishing technologies, malefactors can use legitimate e-mail service providers, or ESPs — but dangerous letters aren’t unstoppable.

The most common ways PayPal users are cheated out of their money through spam, phishing, and various kinds of fraud on the platform.

Cybercriminals are trying to extort money from companies by threatening to bomb their offices.

We examined the contents of Kaspersky’s CEO’s spam folder to find out what spammers and phishers think might entice him.