As the weather gets colder, we turn up the heat -- and so do cyber crooks peddling fake energy-saving devices. They’re flooding inboxes with fake emails and false claims like endorsements from billionaire Elon Musk. They know that as electric bills go up, people are looking for ways to cut down.
Read MoreTrying to find the best deals this time of year? Keep an eye out for copycat sites designed to trick you out of money. The fakers are working harder this year. And they're hoping that you're moving too quickly to notice the small details that reveal the scam.
Read MoreYou may hang up on a scam caller, but would you hang up on Donald Trump? Criminals may be hoping you'll listen up and fall for their scam with the help of a deepfake Donald.
Read MoreScammers are using deepfake voices to trick you in fake Walmart calls. But it's the psychology behind the voices that works even better than the AI. Here are four psychological tactics that cyber criminals will use on you -- and how to defeat them.
Read MoreCriminals are hijacking legitimate AI avatars normally used for training, ads, and more. They're deploying them to trick people out of money, cryptocurrency and passwords. What are AI companies doing to keep their avatars from a life of crime? Here's what we found.
Read MoreYour number one travel tip for 2024? Stay away from the deepfake authors flooding the Amazon Kindle Store with shoddy travel books. We take a trip to fact check six travel guides and expose their sloppy and often incorrect info. We'll also show you how to find good, helpful travel tips for your vacations.
Read MoreHuman or AI? That's the question we'll need to ask ourselves when the phone rings. Criminals are using artificial intelligence to create fakes voices of our loved ones and trick us out of money. Now, you can hear one of these real deepfake scam calls for yourself.
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In two years of full-on war, Russia has pummeled Ukraine with cyberattacks. The most dangerous may be the industrial cyberattacks which can have a physical impact, like a power outage. Here's a look at the momentous industrial cyberattacks that have hit Ukraine --- and also put the world on notice that Russian military hackers are devising new ways to get inside the machines that run your world.
Read MoreOne is Special Deputy United States Marshal. The other, a tax auditor supporting criminal investigations. But prosecutors say these two crime fighters took part in crime themselves, receiving thousands of dollars from victims of romance scams and helping process stolen money. What crimes are they accused of? See how investigators say the schemes went down.
Read MoreCriminals are swiping peoples pictures from social media and using them to create deepfakes for live calls with their victims. Romance scammers revealed these strategies and more in brazen social media posts about their tools and tactics. Their videos show real conversations with victims as the scam plays out.
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