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Urgent warning over convincing new scam appearing in people’s phone calendars

Urgent warning over convincing new scam appearing in people’s phone calendars

Calendar phishing is on the rise A suspicious appointment appearing in your Google Calendar could be part of a scam, even if you never opened the email that sent it. Cybercriminals are exploiting calendar settings to push fraudulent events directly into people’s schedules, hoping to trick them into handing over private information. Threat detection engineer […]

6 days ago

US and Australia use ‘crime app’ to arrest hundreds across 18 different countries

US and Australia use ‘crime app’ to arrest hundreds across 18 different countries

Operation Ironside might sound like a Transformers spin-off but it was actually a pretty impressive initiative American and Australian authorities have hacked a ‘crime app’ with encrypted messages that led to the arrest of hundreds of organised crime members. Across eighteen countries, officials were able to hack encrypted messages and carry out Operation Ironside. Operation […]

5 years ago