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Facebook has been crawling with reposts that claim to be giving away thousands of free airline tickets. We uncover the truth.

It turns out there are bots in Tinder and OkCupid. Who wants that?

Many people now do their taxes online, and cybercriminals see that as a huge opportunity to make money with phishing schemes.

The days of dropping cheesy pick-up lines at social gatherings are coming to an end. With dating websites and apps, it has become way easier to find a partner online. But is it safe?

A criminal ring in India posed as technical support and tricked many people, but they couldn’t fool David Jacoby, our senior security researcher.

Find out if you can avoid traps set by fraudsters for Black Friday sales.

When Canada-based adultery site Ashley Madison was hacked, cybercriminals wasted no time in taking advantage of it. Even now, a year later, they continue to blackmail people and hold their data hostage. We look back at what happened then and talk about what’s happening now.

Ranscam deletes your files and then demands ransom to restore them, or it will delete them. Yes, in that order.

Check this out to know if you want to fall for one of the latest Facebook scams

What happens when real cyber experts head to TV to stop cybercrime?

Tax season means that more folks than the IRS are after your money.

Kaspersky Lab’s Q2 report on spam and phishing has arrived, and brought little surprises.

There are several ways to avoid phishing attacks on your Facebook account. The common theme in each is to be highly suspicious of any online request for your personal information

Fraudsters hacked Skype and tricked people from a contact list to send them about $5,000 over the course of a few days. Skype support, local banks and the police refused to do anything.

Interpol just released an alert regarding cyber-attacks targeting multiple ATMs around the world. During the course of a forensic investigation performed by Kaspersky Lab, researchers discovered a piece of malware infecting ATMs that allowed attackers to empty the cash machines via direct manipulation, stealing millions of dollars.

Phishing is the most developed form of Internet scamming. Let’s explore the topic in order to better understand why it became so prominent and what measures one can take to avoid a phishing attack.

Beware of phishing, malware, spam and other online scams based on the extremely popular ALS Ice Bucket Challenge.

Internet scammers are quite smart and greedy, and know how to disguise their traps, but there are always some ways to find out where these traps are.

If it is absolutely necessary that you check your email and the only way to do it is on a public computer, forward your email to a disposable email account like Mailinotor or Trashmail that has a short life and a timed expiration.

A Brazilian cybercriminal scam targeting a popular payment method known as Boletos is costing that country billions. How can you protect yourself?

It’s getting harder and harder to spot fraudulent online retailers as more and more websites peddling discounted good emerge in the already crowded field of Internet merchants.