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From Food to Friendship: How Scammers Prey on Our Most Basic Needs

Scammers are opportunists. Nasty ones. They prey on the most fundamental human needs: On the surface, a food-assistance scam and a fake-friend scam may seem worlds apart. One promises food, the other companionship. But underneath, they follow the same psychological playbook: build trust, create urgency, extract resources. In this blog, we’ll unpack two real-world scams – SNAP scams and friendship scams – how they work, why they work, and, most importantly, how to fight back against them.

The MemcycoFM Show: Episode 14 - How to File a DMCA Takedown (And Why You Don't Need To)

Many enterprises turn to the DMCA takedown process when they discover infringing or fraudulent content online. While DMCA takedown serves as a protective mechanism for copyrighted material, it was never designed to address the speed and scale of brand impersonation and phishing scams. This gap leaves businesses compromised, leveraging a reactive approach that can’t keep up with the sheer agility and scale of scammer operations. To confront it head-on, we’ll show how to file a DMCA takedown notice effectively, while highlighting tactics for resolving its shortfalls in aggressive brand impersonation, phishing and account takeover (ATO) scenarios.

AI and Fraud Detection: How Bank Reconciliation Tools Protect Your Cash

Fraud has always been a concern in business, but the digital economy has amplified both the scale and sophistication of fraudulent activities. From false vendor payments to suspicious cash transfers, threats are no longer isolated incidents; they're systemic risks that can affect an organization's cash flow. At the same time, finance teams are under immense pressure to deliver timely, accurate reporting while ensuring compliance, where manual processes, spreadsheet errors, and delayed reconciliations leave organizations vulnerable to undetected fraud.

How Cybersecurity Professionals Can Leverage App Reviews for Risk Insights

Cybersecurity analysts often narrow their attention to system logs, performance alerts, and other system logs. Even though these sources are essential, they are not the only sources that need attention. Feedback left by users, particularly on app stores, tends to go unnoticed. This is because the app stores are not only tools to distribute applications; they are invaluable stores of behavioral and experiential intelligence. For security professionals, App Reviews and Ratings can serve as an advanced warning system that highlights possible risks, unwanted activity, or security issues long before technical tools can uncover them.

Cyberthreats, translation errors - how online English helps to avoid threats

Open your email on a Monday morning and chances are, something feels off. Maybe it's a message from "your bank" that doesn't sound quite right, or a supposed colleague urging you to act fast. Usually, the first clue is not the logo or even the address, it's the words. Awkward grammar, unusual phrasing, a sentence that doesn't belong. Even small errors often act as warning signs for much larger problems. When language betrays the scam.

The Hidden Cost of "Free" Gifts: How Survey Scams Are Evolving to Steal Financial Data

You've probably seen them: enticing online offers for free products from brands you trust, like a Yeti beach chair from Costco or an emergency car kit from AAA. All you have to do is fill out a quick survey and pay a small "shipping fee" of a couple of dollars. But what seems like a harmless transaction is actually a sophisticated scam with a high price tag. The KnowBe4 Threat Lab team has been tracking a phishing campaign where scammers use these fake surveys to steal financial data.