Sextortion scammers were leveraging Google Maps data two months ago to demand money with menaces from innocent victims. Now they are back, with a new and costly twist.

Maryland State Police are warning people about a blackmail scam. Potential victims are asked ... The email sent to Gmail accounts in Maryland reads: “Been keeping tabs on your pathetic life ...

Scammers are using increasingly sophisticated ways to lure unsuspecting victims, and some are impersonating an email help ...

Alright, this story is pretty wild. Sam Mitrovic, a Windows security expert, recently shared his close call with an ...

Shortly after the emails, the victim receives a phone call from fraudsters claiming to be from Google’s “security team”. They ...

Sam Mitrovic, a Microsoft solutions consultant, shared his experience of being targeted by an elaborate scam that preyed on Gmail users. He recounted how it all started with a seemingly innocent ...

Google is rolling out a new Scam Detection feature to its Pixel devices that uses on-device AI models to identify potential ...

Share A new Gmail scam was detected by Microsoft solutions consultant Sam Mitrovic. Scammers are sending recovery requests to potential victims. If denied, they call the victim, convince them that ...

AI technology is enabling increasingly sophisticated scams, including a Gmail takeover scheme where scammers impersonate Google. IT consultant Sam Mitrovic encountered this scam, receiving a ...

The scam is similar to standard phishing methods, but it has a much higher chance of success thanks to its use of AI. First, Mitrovic received a message asking him to restore his Gmail account.

And then, when they had access to the accounts of the fraction of the users that fell for the scam, they could leverage the freshly-hacked Gmail accounts to make money, perhaps asking for a ...