Enterprise tech news and intelligence in the Philippines
Gogolook, a Taiwan-based app development company, has introduced Whoscall to the Philippines. This app provides caller identification services and aims to curb mobile-based scams, which have been a significant issue…
Research by Group-IB, a cybersecurity company based in Singapore, shows that scams using brand names and logos more than doubled year-on-year in 2022 in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region. In…
GCash, an e-wallet and mobile finance app, is stepping up its efforts to educate consumers on phishing and other scams using the platform. The scenarios that scammers use have evolved…
Scammers are riding the hype over ChatGPT, a chatbot capable of creating human-like conversations using natural language processing (NLP), as Sophos, a company that provides cybersecurity-as-a-service (CaaS), discovered several fake…
Kaspersky, a cybersecurity and digital privacy company, has warned digital wallet users that they can fall prey to scammers should they decide to sell their personal information. Users take the…
Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI), GMA Network, and GMA New Media Inc. developed a series of anti-scam short videos aimed at raising public awareness of scams via SMS and…
In addition to the surface website it discovered last year, cybersecurity solutions company Sophos revealed that it uncovered 20 fake marketplaces that scammers use to scam fellow scammers. In its…
The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 is the most awaited sports event of 2022 for football and cybercriminals found an opportunity to exploit it. Kaspersky experts have analyzed World Cup-related…
Kaspersky experts have detected spam emails that also abuse the popularity of “Stranger Things,” a popular Netflix series with Season 4 streamed in early July. Taking advantage of the interest…
Scams through SMS are showing no signs of letting up. Telecommunications company PLDT and its subsidiary Smart Communications (Smart) have blocked almost 78,000 SIMs, from January to May this year,…
At the height of the pandemic in 2021, when many Filipinos lost their livelihood, text scams offering jobs surged. Based on cybersecurity solutions firm Kaspersky’s study, personal information such as…
Victims of an international cryptocurrency trading scam called CryptoRom were charged hundreds of thousands of dollars when they attempt to withdraw their investments, according to the follow-up research of cybersecurity…
Many people around the world want to help Ukrainians in need, and fraudsters are exploiting their generosity. Throughout the past week, Kaspersky researchers have observed intensifying scamming activities with numerous…
A few weeks ago, there were teachers who lost their hard-earned money due to scammers. Based on the news reports, it was clearly a phishing scam and the teachers fell…
According to the Credit Card Association of the Philippines (CCAP), there was a recorded increase in fraud cases of almost 30% during the pandemic. As more people have adopted online…
According to a new Kaspersky report, “Spam and Phishing in Q1 2021” scammers continue to exploit the interest in COVID-19 vaccine with governments accelerating the inoculation process. Kaspersky researchers discovered…
The annual Apple event introducing the latest iPhones attracts not only avid fans but also scammers. Some fans who are eager to get first dibs to the newest iPhone models…
Kaspersky experts have detected multiple cases of a sophisticated scam targeting users through fraudulent, unsolicited Google Calendar notifications and luring them into giving away their personal information. The attacks happened…
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