As banks face an “invisible enemy”, London’s FALKIN raises €1.7 million to stop fraud before it starts

David Cendon Garcia / eu-startups - FALKIN, a British digital safety company that helps users stop scams before payments happen, has today announced it has secured €1.7 million ($2 million) in pre-Seed funding amid rising regulatory and consumer pressure for proactive scam-prevention measur…

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Previously unknown Landfall spyware used in 0-day attacks on Samsung phones

Jessica Lyons / theregister - 'Precision espionage campaign' began months before the flaw was fixed A previously unknown Android spyware family called LANDFALL exploited a zero-day in Samsung Galaxy devices for nearly a year, installing surveillance code capable of recording calls, tr…

Back to Top / Friday, November 7, 2025, 4:21 pm / permalink 15773 / 4 stories in 3 months

Meta is making billions of dollars from scam ads on Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, report says

engadget - Meta is making billions of dollars every year from ads marketing scams and illegal products on its platform, according to a new report from Reuters. The report details the staggering numbers behind scam ads on Meta's platform, and raises fresh questions a…

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Amazon Accuses Perplexity of Computer Fraud, Demands It Stop AI Agent From Buying On Its Site

msmash / slashdot - Amazon has sent a cease-and-desist letter to Perplexity AI demanding that the AI search startup stop allowing its AI browser agent, Comet, to make purchases online for users. From a report: The e-commerce giant is accusing Perplexity of committing compute…

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Trump claims not to know the crypto king he just pardoned

James Farrell / siliconangle - In a CBS 60 Minutes interview aired on Sunday, President Trump said he didn’t know who Changpeng Zhao was, the crypto billionaire with ties to the Trump family’s own crypto venture. Zhao was the co-founder of Binance, the world’s largest cryptocurrency ex…

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Elon Musk accuses Sam Altman of stealing a nonprofit after Tesla Roadster refund dispute

techspot - The fight started last week when Altman posted three screenshots: a confirmation of his $50,000 reservation for a Tesla Roadster in July 2018, an email to Tesla he sent asking for a refund, and an image of the email message bouncing.Read Entire Article

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Hurricane Melissa Has Meteorologists Terrified

Molly Taft / wired - The storm, which is set to make landfall in Jamaica Tuesday, has stunned meteorologists with its intensity and the speed at which it built.

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How iCloud backups helped expose a mob-and NBA-linked poker cheating scandal

appleinsider - Digital evidence stored in iCloud played a key role in exposing a multistate poker-rigging scheme tied to organized crime and NBA players. Here's how, and what evidence was uncovered.iCloud data helps crack NBA and mob poker schemeFederal investigators us…

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Toys “R” Us Canada warns customers' info leaked in data breach

Bill Toulas / bleepingcomputer - Toys "R" Us Canada has sent notices of a data breach to customers informing them of a security incident where threat actors leaked customer records they had previously stolen from its systems. [...]

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Meta’s latest update focuses on protecting older users from scams

Aytun Çelebi / dataconomy - Meta has launched new scam-detection features for its WhatsApp and Messenger applications. This initiative aims to protect users, with a specific focus on older adults, from online fraud by delivering real-time warnings during potentially fraudulent inter…

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Feds Seize Record-Breaking $15 Billion in Bitcoin From Alleged Scam Empire

Matt Burgess, Andy Greenberg / wired - Officials in the US and UK have taken sweeping action against “one of the largest investment fraud operations in history,” confiscating a historic amount of funds in the process.

Back to Top / Tuesday, October 14, 2025, 7:20 pm / permalink 15135 / 4 stories in 4 months

The EU wants Apple, Google and Microsoft to clamp down on online scams

Andre Revilla / engadget - The European Union has asked Apple, Google and Microsoft to explain how they police online financial scams, stepping up enforcement of the Digital Services Act (DSA), as first reported by the Financial Times. Formal information requests were also sent to …

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A jury will decide if Amazon illegally tricked people into paying for Prime

Lauren Feiner / theverge - Amazon is about to face a roughly month-long trial against the US Federal Trade Commission in Seattle to defend its Prime program from claims it tricked tens of millions of customers into signing up for the membership and made it hard to quit. It's one of…

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“Yikes”: Internal emails reveal Ticketmaster helped scalpers jack up prices

Ashley Belanger / arstechnica - FTC sued Ticketmaster and Live Nation for turning "blind eye" to scalpers.

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Microsoft blocks bait for ‘fastest-growing’ 365 phish kit, seizes 338 domains

Jessica Lyons / theregister - Redmond names alleged ringleader, claims 5K+ creds stolen and $100k pocketed Microsoft has seized 338 websites associated with RaccoonO365 and identified the leader of the phishing service - Joshua Ogundipe - as part of a larger effort to disrupt what Red…

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LimeWire (Which Still Exists) Buys Fyre Festival (Which Never Did) on eBay

AJ Dellinger / gizmodo - Sure, why not?

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Subprime Auto Lender Tricolor Files to Liquidate in Bankruptcy

PYMNTS / pymnts - Subprime auto lender Tricolor Holdings reportedly filed to liquidate in bankruptcy Wednesday (Sept. 10), the same day it was reported that banks were set to suffer hundreds of millions of dollars in combined losses from loans tied to the company. Tricolor…

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