phishing
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That Marketplace Listing in Your Name Was Never Yours
A text message arrives about a Facebook Marketplace listing with your own name as the seller. You never posted it, and the reply is the only thing the sender wants.
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A Scary Message Popped Up in the Asos App. The Hackers Wrote It.
A scary notification appeared in the Asos app, and the hackers wrote it. What was stolen, and the messages to expect next.
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A Google Security Alert Landed in Your Inbox. Google Didn’t Send It.
A warning from Google about your account is one of the few emails most people open without a second thought. This month, real inboxes received one of those warnings, and Google had not sent it.
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Someone Hid Instructions in an Ordinary Email. Only the AI Could Read Them.
A scam email can now carry two messages: the one you see, and a hidden set of instructions written for the AI that summarises your inbox.
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You Signed In to a Drawing. It Wasn’t Google.
Scammers built fake AI advertising tools that draw a Google sign-in window inside the page, then take your password — and the code from your phone. Here is the one test that tells a real window from a drawing.
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You Opened the Recruiter’s Code Test. It Was Malware.
A recruiter sent a file to review instead of a link. Inside was a script that copied saved passwords out of the browser and sent them to a server abroad.
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Scan a QR Code for a Vote? That Tap Can Cost You 600 Euro
A WhatsApp message asks you to vote for a girl in a dance competition. The link wants your phone number, then a code or a QR scan — and that one scan hands your account to strangers.
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Someone Sends You a Code. Typing It Hands Them Your Email
Microsoft has shut down EvilTokens, a criminal kit that tricked more than 12,000 people into handing over their email by typing in a code.