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The National Anti-Scam Centre is urging Australians who have had money stolen by scammers to be wary of offers to recover their money for an upfront fee.

URLs embedded in phishing emails as an initial means of engaging the intended victim have reached those intended victims at a much higher rate than attachments used for the same purpose, according to a new report from security firm Cofense.

GUEST RESEARCH: Delinea, a leading provider of Privileged Access Management (PAM) solutions for seamless security, today published its 2022 State of Ransomware Report which finds that things may be looking up in the fight against ransomware.

Australians are being urged to learn how to spot a scam this national Scams Awareness Week after combined losses of over $2 billion reported last year to Scamwatch, the government and the financial sector.

Losses to imposter bond investment scams have nearly tripled in the first half of this year with consumers losing over $20 million to these sophisticated scams, according to the competition watchdog the ACCC.

Australians have lost over $70 million to bogus investment scams in the first half of this year and a massive increase in losses are predicted by the end of the year, according to the consumer watchdog the ACCC.

With stalkerware vulnerabilities endangering both victims and stalkers, without the knowledge of victims, ESET Research is shining a light on this problem for Android smartphone users.

Losses by Australians to dating and romance scams are expected to be much higher this year as scammers turn to a new technique - romance baiting - using dating apps to lure victims into investment scams, according to the consumer watchdog, the ACCC.

The United States Government has been called on to do more to stamp out ‘Revenge Porn’ – the practice of nonconsensual distribution of sexually implicit images.

The infamous Stuxnet worm that disabled Iranian nuclear centrifuges has been under intense investigation by Kaspersky Lab and other security firms, with Kaspersky revealing more information.

Online scam artists, purportedly from Australia, are exploiting goodwill of strangers in the wake of the downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 using stolen credit cards and setting up fake social media profiles.

Who needs Batman when you can whip out your smartphone to help fight crime?