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.

Iden­tity theft (also called iden­tity fraud) is a scam involving someone’s user account – i.e. their iden­tity – being mis­used by a third party. In the process, attackers either hack a per­sonal account …

Harold Hacker wants your money. He is using ever more cun­ning means to obtain access to your e-banking facility. Learn how to effec­tively pro­tect yourself!

“Invest­ment fraud” involves fraud­u­lent invest­ments. To this end, brazen finan­cial ser­vice providers lure cus­tomers willing to invest with promises of high yields. Yet above all, those sup­pos­edly large …

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 …

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 …

Time and again, crim­i­nals are using attrac­tive-looking job offers to recruit people as “money mules”, to transfer crim­i­nally obtained funds abroad. Anyone par­tic­i­pating in such “deals” is committing …

Crim­i­nals use var­ious strate­gies to steal money from their unsus­pecting vic­tims. One pop­ular approach is to encrypt users’ files, to only grant them access again once a “ransom” has been paid – well …

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 …