OLYMPIA, Wash. — After a stellar career as a social worker and mental health program manager for the state of Washington, 73-year-old Barb Putnam, of Olympia, has lost the majority of her life savings ...

These scams start small and quickly “snowball” into a more elaborate scheme, chaining different techniques together.

Though only 61% of Americans wrote a check in the last year according to a 2024 survey, officials are still warning people about crime trends related to paper checks. It's easy to see why; two men in ...

Leaders of USF's Behavioral AI Lab say "generative AI" can create human-like prompts and adapt to responses. It is helping scammers expand their reach.

Researchers have uncovered a sustained and ongoing campaign by Russian spies that uses a clever phishing technique to hijack ...

Symantec researchers observed Chinese state-sponsored threat actors running ransomware against an Asian software and services ...