State of internet crime in Q1 2022: Bot traffic on the rise, and more

The fraud industry, in some respects, grew in the first quarter of the year, with crooks putting more human resources into some attacks while increasingly relying on bots to carry out things like credential stuffing and fake account creation. That's according to Arkose Labs, which claimed in its latest State of Fraud and …

[vtcodger]

Bad neighborhood

Cyberspace isn't safe. Who could possibly have known?

[Version 1.0]

Re: Bad neighborhood

But cyberspace is very profitable, just read the rest of the posts on El Reg...

[chivo243]

Spike on Skype

I've seen a big spike in unsolicited *requests* lately, one trying to sell me bank fraud software...

[vtcodger]

Re: Spike on Skype

"one trying to sell me bank fraud software"

Would that be software to detect bank fraud? Or software to assist in committing bank fraud?

[Anonymous Coward]

Same ol Same ol

Seems there's more SPAM coming out of the hand waving the sky is falling companies. Always followed by some buy our latest gee wiz products.

[TimMaher]

Re:sky is falling.

Chicken Little:- “Sky is falling! Sky is falling!”.

Stock broker:- “Sell sky.”.