Fraud

Machine learning saves £4.4M in UK.gov work and pensions fraud detection

Poor data standards across government hamper scaling, says Parliament spending watchdog

Public Sector27 Oct 2025 | 40

As real life banks close, network operator starts a Scam School to stop Granny getting mugged online

Broadband biz teams up with Good Things Foundation to teach the digitally doddery how to dodge fraud

Networks08 Oct 2025 | 28

CISA program gave out $20k+ payments to unqualified employees, auditor says

The OIG says the Cyber Incentive program was rife with 'fraud, waste, and abuse'

Cybersecurity Month12 Sep 2025 | 1

Uncle Sam throws AI 'chili cook-off' to spice up healthcare fraud detection

No stew on the stove, but plenty of heat as devs compete to flag suspect Medicare data

Public Sector27 Aug 2025 | 4

P2P payment service Zelle sued for enabling payment fraud hell

Infosec In Brief PLUS: Kryptos solution up for auction; Canadian parliament springs a leak; Fake crypto lawyers; And more

Security17 Aug 2025 | 10

Lethal Cambodia-Thailand border clash linked to cyber-scam slave camps

Analysis Infosec issues spill into the real world and regional politics

Security31 Jul 2025 | 17

Florida Man earns five-year sentence for $100 million telco fraud

Q Link claimed subsidies for ineligible customers

Legal30 Jul 2025 | 10

Laptop farmer behind $17M North Korean IT worker scam locked up for 8.5 years

Plus she has to cough up a slice of Pyongyang’s payday

Cyber-crime24 Jul 2025 | 12

Composer for worst Tomb Raider games jailed over COVID-19 loan fraud

Peter Connelly inflated turnover and claimed second payment when only entitled to one

Bootnotes21 Jul 2025 | 18

You have a fake North Korean IT worker problem – here's how to stop it

Thick resumes with thin LinkedIn connections are one sign. Refusing an in-person interview is another

Cyber-crime13 Jul 2025 | 120

Netflix, Apple, BofA websites hijacked with fake help-desk numbers

Don’t trust mystery digits popping up in your search bar

Cyber-crime20 Jun 2025 | 14

Texas warns 300,000 crash reports siphoned via compromised user account

Lone Star State drivers with accident records need to be careful about fraud

Cyber-crime10 Jun 2025 | 5

Trump guts digital ID rules, claims they help 'illegal aliens' commit fraud

Also axes secure software mandates - optional is the new secure, apparently

Security10 Jun 2025 | 67

Palantir's Trump bonanza continues with Fannie Mae contract to fight fraud

Yet more juicy data for the all-seeing eye

AI + ML29 May 2025 | 29

Scammers are deepfaking voices of senior US government officials, warns FBI

They're smishing, they're vishing

Security16 May 2025 | 19

Uncle Sam claims H-1B fraud crackdown is working as registrations drop 25%

Surely Trump's anti-immigrant rhetoric has nothing to do with it

On-Prem15 May 2025 | 43

Maryland man pleads guilty to outsourcing US govt work to North Korean dev in China

Feds say $970K scheme defrauded 13+ companies

Cyber-crime30 Apr 2025 | 10

Google's email spoofed by cunning phisherfolk who re-used DKIM creds

Infosec In Brief PLUS: Malware developers adopt Node.js; US disinformation warriors disbanded; Gig worker accounts for sale; and more

Personal Tech22 Apr 2025 | 4

Meta accused of Llama 4 bait-and-switch to juice AI benchmark rank

Did Facebook giant rizz up LLM to win over human voters? It appears so

AI + ML08 Apr 2025 | 3

Two arrested after pensioner scammed out of six-figure crypto nest egg

The latest in a long line of fraud stings worth billions each year

Security20 Feb 2025 | 18

India's banking on the bank.in domain cleaning up its financial services sector

With over 2,000 banks in operation, a domain only they can use has potential to make life harder for fraudsters

Security10 Feb 2025 | 16

AI chatbot startup founder, lawyer wife accused of ripping off investors in $60M fraud

GameOn? It's looking more like game over for that biz

Cyber-crime24 Jan 2025 | 30

Pastor's divine 'dream' crypto scheme indicted by Uncle Sam

Plus: Man who tossed Bitcoin drive worth millions barred from digging in dump

Offbeat13 Jan 2025 | 32

Scammers exploit UK's digital landline switch to swipe cash

Old deadline of January 2025 being used to push victims into paying up

Networks10 Jan 2025 | 38

Interpol wants everyone to stop saying 'pig butchering'

Victims' feelings might get hurt, global cops contend, and that could hinder reporting

Cyber-crime17 Dec 2024 | 45

Mega defense corp Thales faces Anglo-French bribery and corruption probe

Authorities remain tight-lipped on specifics

Public Sector22 Nov 2024 | 15

A Kansas pig butchering: CEO who defrauded bank, church, friends gets 24 years

FBI recovers just $8M after scam crashes Heartland Tri-State Bank

Cyber-crime05 Nov 2024 | 15

Six IT contractors accused of swindling Uncle Sam out of millions

Infosec in brief Also, ecommerce fraud ring disrupted, another Operation Power Off victory, Sino SOHO botnet spotted, and more

Security03 Nov 2024 | 11

Datacenter CEO faked top-tier IT reliability cert to snag $10.7M SEC deal, DoJ claims

Updated The Uptime Institute rates availability. The 'Uptime Council' … apparently doesn't exist

Off-Prem17 Oct 2024 | 21

FBI created a cryptocurrency so it could watch it being abused

It worked – alleged pump and dump schemers arrested in UK, US and Portugal this week

Security11 Oct 2024 | 52

Asian crime gangs are growing – fast – thanks to AI and other tech

UN report finds Telegram, cryptocurrency are tools of a growing 'criminal service economy'

Cybersecurity Month09 Oct 2024 | 5

AI-driven e-commerce fraud is surging, but you can fight back with more AI

Juniper Research argues the only way to beat them is to join them

AI + ML08 Oct 2024 | 7

SBF's right-hand woman praised for testimony – and jailed for two years

Caroline Ellison thanked for helping take down FTX supremo, ordered to surrender her own billions

Legal25 Sep 2024 | 32

Cambodian senator sanctioned by US over alleged forced labor cyber-scam camps

Do not go on holiday to the O Smach Resort

Cyber-crime13 Sep 2024 | 8

UK trio pleads guilty to running $10M MFA bypass biz

Updated Crew bragged they could help crooks raid victims' bank accounts

Cyber-crime03 Sep 2024 | 14

Crypto boss finds fraud trial a serious pain in the neck

Thankfully his injuries are not life threatening

Legal30 Aug 2024 | 10

'Digital arrest' scams are big in India and may be spreading

Bad guys claim they're cops, keep you on hold for hours until you pay to make loved ones' crimes go away

Cyber-crime13 Aug 2024 | 5

Japan mandates app to ensure national ID cards aren't forged

First delays, then data leaks – now fraud detection needed at point of use

Security02 Aug 2024 | 36

Sam Altman sues builder over $27M flooded, sewage-hit 'lemon' of a mega-mansion

Leaking skylights, collapsed roof, garbage-clogged pipes - did ChatGPT make this?

Bootnotes18 Jul 2024 | 87

Former Autonomy CFO banned from chartered accounting group until 2038

Sushovan Hussain’s failure in 2020 to appeal his 2018 fraud conviction in the US means he won’t be a member of ICAEW for 20 years

Software11 Jul 2024 | 8

Scammers double-scam victims by offering to help recover from scams

Scum keep databases of the people they've already skimmed

Cyber-crime09 Jul 2024 | 6

Fraud guilty plea flies from Boeing to swerve courtroom over 737 Max crashes

Attorney for families of victims files objection

Software08 Jul 2024 | 65

Crypto-failure Terraform Labs to cough up $4.5B, liquidate self

South Korean outfit that triggered the world's 'Crypto Winter' will melt away after SEC order

Personal Tech17 Jun 2024 | 17

Nigerian faces up to 102 years in the slammer for $1.5M phishing scam

Crook and his alleged co-conspirators said to have used Discord to coordinate

Cyber-crime14 Jun 2024 | 9

HP-Autonomy: Attorneys wrap up arguments in Mike Lynch's stateside criminal fraud trial

And we await the San Francisco jury's verdict

On-Prem03 Jun 2024 | 15

Check Point warns customers to patch VPN vulnerability under active exploitation

Infosec in brief Also, free pianos are the latest internet scam bait, Cooler Master gets pwned, and some critical vulnerabilities

Security03 Jun 2024 | 2

US Treasury says NFTs 'highly susceptible' to fraud, but ignored by high-tier criminals

Narco kingpins aren't coming for your apes, but internet con artists still are

Cyber-crime30 May 2024 | 13

Best Buy and Geek Squad were most impersonated orgs by scammers in 2023

But criminals posing as Microsoft workers scored the most ill-gotten gains

Security24 May 2024 | 13

Would you buy Pegasus spyware from this scammer?

You shouldn't – Indian infosec researchers warn you'll get random junk instead

Security23 May 2024 | 7

Laundering cash from healthcare, romance scams lands US man in prison for a decade

$4.5M slushed through accounts from state healthcare and lonely people

Security22 May 2024 | 2

Wiley shuts 19 scholarly journals amid AI paper mill problems

Fake science challenges academic publishing

AI + ML16 May 2024 | 38

What do Europeans, Americans and Australians have in common? Scammed $50M by fake e-stores

BogusBazaar ripped off shoppers and scraped card details, but not in China

Cyber-crime08 May 2024 | 10

Florida man gets 6 years behind bars for flogging fake Cisco kit to US military

Operation busted after dodgy devices ended up at Air Force

Networks02 May 2024 | 41

MITRE admits 'nation state' attackers touched its NERVE R&D operation

Infosec In Brief PLUS: Akira ransomware resurgent; Telehealth outfit fined for data-sharing; This week's nastiest vulns

Security22 Apr 2024 | 3

Google sues app devs, claims they're Play Store crypto scammers with 100k+ victims

The pair allegedly made 87 apps since 2019 and defrauded folks of tens of thousands of dollars

Applications05 Apr 2024 | 20

Software engineer helped put Sam Bankman-Fried behind bars, say prosecutors

CTO shared code from his laptop with investigation after FTX collapsed

Software03 Apr 2024 | 22