Hackers Raid French Bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa
Attackers exploited a third-party provider to withdraw up to $133 million from the bank's accounts.
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Ukrainian police arrest four in €4.3 million crypto scam
Ukrainian authorities arrest four suspects running fraudulent call centers that stole over €4.3 million from 135 German victims.
Trio accused of using deepfake CEOs and bogus lawyers to scam businesses out of $129 million
The indictment details how three men used deepfakes to impersonate CEOs and lawyers to wire $129 million in fraud.
FATF urges countries to disrupt scam compounds upstream
FATF says countries are stronger at tracing payments than at stopping ads, recruitment, domains, and phone indicators.
FraudBench finds LLM fraud rates rise with autonomy
Across 20 models, fraud was 3.0% when advising, 14.7% when drafting, and 21.4% when acting.
Phone return scams target mobile providers
Scammers send a real phone but use fake return labels to keep the device and leave victims with bills or contracts.
Ukraine fires two senior security officials amid corruption probe into scam call centers
Security Service of Ukraine dismisses officials as investigators uncover a network that bribed law enforcement to protect scam call centers.
French bank Crédit Mutuel Arkéa confirms cyberattack amid $133 million theft reports
Crédit Mutuel Arkéa confirms a cyberattack enabling fraudulent transactions but has not confirmed reported loss figures.
European police seize 100 servers in investment scam crackdown
Authorities arrest seven suspects and seize over 100 servers in operation against fraudulent trading platforms.
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Wuffy toy dog scam network traced to Kremlin
Mastercard investigation links 250+ Wuffy scam sites to $50 million annual fraud and ransomware money trails.
Online scam detections doubled and overtook phishing, Akamai says
Akamai and Bolster AI counted about 6.4 million scams in April–June 2026, while phishing detections rose 61%.
Moldova says government breach may have exposed 750,000 people
Attackers hit unauthenticated government services from October 22 to 23; card data was not compromised, officials say.
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MonsterCloud CEO indicted over alleged ransomware recovery scam
Zohar Pinhasi allegedly billed clients more than $19 million while secretly paying over $8 million in ransoms and pleaded not guilty.
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Socure launches Agent Intelligence to score and credential AI agents
Detection is generally available; TrustScore is in beta, and credentials are planned for Q1 2027.
TransUnion says most digital fraud hits after accounts exist
The firm says account login was 53% of suspected digital fraud in the first half of 2026.
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India to require WhatsApp and Telegram accounts to stay tied to active SIMs
DoT’s deadline is December 31, 2026; how far accounts stop working depends on each app’s implementation.
Woman charged over a Cash App account she says she never opened
404 Media says account address and network details did not match Amanda Smith, whose case remains ongoing.
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INTERPOL Africa sweep arrests 1,462 and recovers over $105 million
Operation Serengeti III, from June 29 to August 31, linked networks to over $385 million in losses and 65,929 victims.
TokenTrap drives up token use in LLM-based scam systems
Over 50-round traces, consumption rose as much as 2,487 times versus a no-token-task baseline.
Check Point: antidetect browsers hide large fake-account operations
Kameleo, AdsPower, and MultiLogin can isolate profiles, mask fingerprints, and reuse stolen session cookies at scale.
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Woman faces prison after scammer opened a Cash App in her name
Amanda Smith is charged in Arkansas over a $1,000 Facebook Marketplace payment to an account using her SSN.
AI antidetect browsers used for fraud and influence operations
Kameleo, AdsPower, and MultiLogin can feed LLM content into profiles and accept stolen session cookies.
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Staples gift card heist story is behind a paywall
The provided page contains only a membership prompt, with no account of what was stolen or how.
Romance scam doc, Super Scam Me, takes viewers deep into love-bombing terrain
National Geographic’s Super Scam Me documents romance scams the FTC says cost Americans about $1.5 billion yearly.
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