Every bank customer’s nightmare: Criminals gain access to your account and clear it out. If this has already happened, the main thing is damage limitation – and to learn from this.

With the help of Artificial intelligence (AI), it is now possible to create deceptively realistic videos, voices or images. These so-called “deepfakes” are also used for scamming attempts in the …

So-called "CEO fraud" is an unscrupulous scam tactic. It involves company employees with direct payment authority receiving an e-mail from one of their superiors asking them to initiate a payment to a …

This article is an introduction to the world of malware. It explains how malware works in general, and also discusses the most common routes of infection and harmful behaviour patterns. In the process …

Simply visiting an infected website is sufficient to infect your device. Websites affected often contain reputable offers and have been compromised beforehand to distribute malware. But you can …

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To obtain confidential information, criminals often abuse the good faith, helpfulness or insecurity of their victims. Whether this involves fictitious telephone calls, fake policemen or phishing - the …

Time and again, fraudulent letters are circulating, purportedly sent by your bank and looking astonishingly authentic. But there are ways to unmask such fakes.