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Meta on Tuesday said it's launching new tools to protect Messenger and WhatsApp users from potential scams. To that end, the company said it's introducing new warnings on WhatsApp when users attempt to share their screen with an unknown contact during a video call so as to prevent them from giving away sensitive information like bank details or verification codes.

The online world is changing fast. Every week, new scams, hacks, and tricks show how easy it's become to turn everyday technology into a weapon. Tools made to help us work, connect, and stay safe are now being used to steal, spy, and deceive.

Officials in the US and UK have taken sweeping action against “one of the largest investment fraud operations in history,” confiscating a historic amount of funds in the process.

Sometimes the internet feels like the old joke about “you can’t get there from here.” DNS errors and DNS failures are especially frustrating. “DNS server isn’t responding,” “DNS lookup failed,” “NXDOMAIN” and “DNS resolution timeout” are just some of the possible ways your browser or internet-enabled device tells you there is a DNS failure.

DNS emerges as the frontline of cyber defense, empowering enterprises to detect, prevent, and outpace AI-driven threats before they strike.

New Infoblox Threat Intel research reveals that a long-running threat actor compromising websites, coined as “Detour Dog,” has evolved from scam redirects to deliver information stealing malware.

The cyber world never hits pause, and staying alert matters more than ever. Every week brings new tricks, smarter attacks, and fresh lessons from the field.

A threat actor named Detour Dog has been outed as powering campaigns distributing an information stealer known as Strela Stealer. That's according to findings from Infoblox, which found the threat actor to maintain control of domains hosting the first stage of the stealer, a backdoor called StarFish.

Attacks involving server-side DNS exploitation have enabled cybercrime operation Detour Dog to inject the Strela Stealer malware into more than 30,000 websites worldwide, most of which are in the U.S., according to HackRead.

EIGHTY per cent of Singaporeans believe they can spot a deepfake video, but only 25 per cent actually can. That’s the stark finding from a survey by Singapore’s Cyber Security Agency (CSA) released in July, and it should serve as a national wake-up call.