Phishing Calls

India's telecom watchdog on Tuesday directed service providers to stop all promotional calls from unregistered callers and blacklist them as it looks to tackle a surge in spam and phishing calls that has seen people lose millions of rupees.

"No one can trace this number. It is fake...," a scammer confesses, rattled after his mark turns the tables on him, in a video that has gone viral on X.

In March this year, Scam Sniffer stated in its crypto phishing report that about 57,000 victims lost approximately $47 million (roughly Rs. 392 crore) to crypto phishing scams – with most percentage of scams facilitated by scammers working on X.

Vishing is a form of cyber crime that involves "voice" and "phishing". The scammers deceive people by talking quickly and persuasively on phone to catch them off guard.

The AI cybercrime tool called WormGPT can launch sophisticated phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks.

The call was coming from inside the company. Or so it seemed when the mobile phone of a customer-service representative for Robinhood Markets lit up on the evening of Nov 3. More than an hour passed --, as the caller reeled in the hapless employee

Google on Tuesday announced Verified Calls, a new feature in the Phone app on Android devices, which will identify calls from genuine business numbers in an attempt to tackle phone fraud. This is a serious problem in India and many parts of the world, and Google's verified calls will show you the identity of the caller, as well as the reason for th...

A new hack called ‘Inception Bar’ in Chrome for mobile allows malicious webmasters to trick users with a fake URL and launch phishing attacks.

"Intra lets you access websites and apps blocked by DNS manipulation, one of the most common forms of censorship online," Jigsaw said.

When a number is unknown, Siri attempts to find suggestions by throwing a 'Maybe: XXXX' banner on your incoming call screen or in iMessages as well. Phishers may try to use this Siri's 'Maybe' feature to mislead users of who they really are.

Researchers have said that the Vega Stealer malware has the potential to go much further than how it is being used today.

India's telecom watchdog on Tuesday directed service providers to stop all promotional calls from unregistered callers and blacklist them as it looks to tackle a surge in spam and phishing calls that has seen people lose millions of rupees.

"No one can trace this number. It is fake...," a scammer confesses, rattled after his mark turns the tables on him, in a video that has gone viral on X.

In March this year, Scam Sniffer stated in its crypto phishing report that about 57,000 victims lost approximately $47 million (roughly Rs. 392 crore) to crypto phishing scams – with most percentage of scams facilitated by scammers working on X.

Vishing is a form of cyber crime that involves "voice" and "phishing". The scammers deceive people by talking quickly and persuasively on phone to catch them off guard.

The AI cybercrime tool called WormGPT can launch sophisticated phishing and business email compromise (BEC) attacks.

The call was coming from inside the company. Or so it seemed when the mobile phone of a customer-service representative for Robinhood Markets lit up on the evening of Nov 3. More than an hour passed --, as the caller reeled in the hapless employee

Google on Tuesday announced Verified Calls, a new feature in the Phone app on Android devices, which will identify calls from genuine business numbers in an attempt to tackle phone fraud. This is a serious problem in India and many parts of the world, and Google's verified calls will show you the identity of the caller, as well as the reason for th...

A new hack called ‘Inception Bar’ in Chrome for mobile allows malicious webmasters to trick users with a fake URL and launch phishing attacks.

"Intra lets you access websites and apps blocked by DNS manipulation, one of the most common forms of censorship online," Jigsaw said.

When a number is unknown, Siri attempts to find suggestions by throwing a 'Maybe: XXXX' banner on your incoming call screen or in iMessages as well. Phishers may try to use this Siri's 'Maybe' feature to mislead users of who they really are.

Researchers have said that the Vega Stealer malware has the potential to go much further than how it is being used today.