It’s a simple thing we encounter many times every single week – often while in a hurry. You pull up at a parking spot, scan a QR code and pay within seconds. Or you sit down at a cafe, scan a code to ...

WhatsApp says it has notified around 200 users who were tricked into installing a malicious fake version of the chat app that contained spyware. WhatsApp accused Italian spyware maker SIO of creating ...

Last Christmas Eve, a 77-year-old woman in New Delhi got an unexpected call from what she thought was the police. Contacting her by WhatsApp video, the team of uniformed cops inside a police station ...

Fake badges, real danger — the FBI is on alert and needs your help stopping imposters posing as federal agents. The bureau is warning the public to be alert for those cammers, who use convincing ...

A new phishing scam is tricking people into installing malware by pretending to be a Google security check. The page looks convincing and tells you that your Google account needs additional protection ...

The spread of fake photos of the Iran war is helping make the question Is this real? all but unanswerable. Illustration by The Atlantic. Source: Iranian Press Center / AFP / Getty. In short: The day ...

Until recently, the inner workings of these compounds were mysterious, pieced together by investigators from the testimony of escapees. But late last year, the Thai military took control of a major ...

After Russia invaded Ukraine in 2022, social media was littered with crude fakes that were presented as fresh images of the war but were either photoshopped phonies or mislabeled clips taken from ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An AI-generated video depicts a fake scene in which captured US soldiers are held by Iranian soldiers. - Obtained by CNN After ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. A US aircraft carrier destroyed by Iranian missiles. American bombs leveling a ...

X’s Grok is failing to accurately verify video footage from the Iran conflict and is sharing its own AI-generated images about the war. When disinformation expert Tal Hagin asked Grok to verify a post ...

A new variation of the ClickFix technique is capitalizing on the popularity of Anthropic's Claude Code and other AI coding tools. Researchers at Push Security discovered the threat campaign, which ...