FBI Alert Number: I-030926-PSA | 09 March 2026 The FBI is warning the public about an emerging phishing scheme by criminals impersonating city and county officials to solicit fraudulent payments for city and county planning and zoning permits. The criminals leverage publicly available permit information to identify potential victims and increase the legitimacy of the scam. […]
The Hill reports that an old-fashioned scam is still a current threat: Cyber experts are warning that the message no one wants to receive – “Your data has been breached” – could actually be the first phase of a popular scam. It often works like this: an email or text pops up warning that personal […]
The New York Times provides a reminder for consumers as to what to do if you if you receive a breach notification letter. Spoiler alert: do not just ignore it or trash it. Data incidents have become so common that you may succumb to “breach fatigue” and be tempted to throw away notification letters. That’s […]
The Register reports: Google has pushed out an emergency Chrome update to fix two previously unknown vulnerabilities that attackers were already exploiting before the patches landed. The bugs, tracked as CVE-2026-3909 and CVE-2026-3910, affect core components of the browser and have prompted the usual warning from Google that technical details will remain under wraps until […]
The Washington Post reports: The Social Security Administration’s internal watchdog isinvestigating a complaint that alleges a former U.S. DOGE Service employee claimed he had access to two highly sensitive agency databases and planned to share the information with his private employer — a claim that, if true, would constitute an unprecedented breach of security protocols […]
From the Google Threat Intelligence Group: Google Threat Intelligence Group (GTIG) has identified a new and powerful exploit kit targeting Apple iPhone models running iOS version 13.0 (released in September 2019) up to version 17.2.1 (released in December 2023). The exploit kit, named “Coruna” by its developers, contained five full iOS exploit chains and a total of […]
Former federal prosecutor Tom O’Malley writes: Attention OPM Data Breach Victims (21.5 Million)Thanks to DOGE (https://fedscoop.com/doge-could-end-opm-breach-identity-protections-mark-warner/), the free identity protection monitoring for OPM data breach victims will end this year (https://federalnewsnetwork.com/cybersecurity/2025/10/opm-bringing-protections-for-data-breach-victims-to-an-end/). If you want FREE credit protection FOR LIFE, go to FrozenPii.com. As a retired federal Computer Hacking and Intellectual Property (CHIP) prosecutor, Identity Theft […]
When the spyer becomes the spyee? TechBuzz reports: A hacktivist just turned the tables on half a million people who paid to spy on others. More than 536,000 payment records from customers of phone surveillance apps like uMobix, Xnspy, and Geofinder hit the open web this week, exposing email addresses and partial card numbers of […]
It’s not just those with millions of dollars in cryptocurrency who are at risk of violent kidnappings these days. Bloomberg News recently reported on a terrifying case: The pecking at the sliding glass door awoke Julia Goodwin shortly before midnight. She and her husband, Glenn, retirees in their 60s, first thought the noise might be […]
Action 5 News reports a real-life example of a consumer who was scammed into revealing his cryptocurrency wallet seed phrase — with all-too-sad and predictable results: A Charlotte man lost more than $1 million in cryptocurrency after falling victim to a phone scam that began with a caller claiming to be from a legitimate crypto […]
