Italian hotels breached for tens of thousands of scanned IDs
The Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT) for Italy’s “Agenzia per l’Italia Digitale” (AGID) issued a warning that cybercriminals are selling stolen identity documents from hotels…
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National Public Data returns after massive Social Security Number leak
Remember that data broker nobody had ever heard of, but managed to leak a database which contained the data of some 2.9 billion people? It’s…
Romance scammers in Ghana charged with more than $100 million in theft
The Department of Justice (DOJ) extradited and indicted 4 Ghanaian nationals for allegedly stealing more than $100 million, mainly through romance scams and business email…
Netflix scammers target jobseekers to trick them into handing over their Facebook logins
In what seems a phishing attack targeted at a certain audience, scammers are impersonating Netflix and reaching out to marketing staff. The initial mail looks…
Russians hacked US courts, say investigators
Russia is after secret files in the US court system, according to reports this week—and its hackers appear to have reached at least some of…
Microsoft patches some very important vulnerabilities in August’s patch Tuesday
In the August 2025 patch Tuesday round Microsoft fixed a total of 111 Microsoft vulnerabilities. A few of them are very important for people to…
WinRAR vulnerability exploited by two different groups
On July 30, 2025, WinRAR released a new version (7.13 Final) to patch a vulnerability which was used in two separate malware campaigns. WinRAR is…
Scam hunter scammed by tax office impersonators
The next time you shake your head at another online scam and vow that you’d never fall for it, remember that even the most tech-savvy…
That “Amazon Safety Recall” message may well be a scam
Scammers are using the age old tactic of scaring victims into clicking by sending out fake product recall messages from Amazon. The text message tells…
“The worst thing” for online rights: An age-restricted grey web (Lock and Code S06E16)
This week on the Lock and Code podcast… The internet is cracking apart. It’s exactly what some politicians want. In June, a Texas law that…
Online portal exposed car and personal data, allowed anyone to remotely unlock cars
A carmaker’s online dealership portal has been found leaking the private information and vehicle data of its customers. This also meant that anyone with access…
Adult sites trick users into Liking Facebook posts using a clickjack Trojan
As the use of age verification to access adult websites increases in various countries around the world, shady websites with adult content have started a…