News & Reviews:   phishing

Have you ever received an email threatening you to deposit a certain amount of money to avoid being exposed of surfing sites you shouldn't be or saying you've been hacked or worse? If you have, then you could be a victim of email spoofing.

Read on to understand more about email spoofing, whether or not you should worry about such blackmail/extortion emails and what you can do about it.

Another day in Malaysia and another Malaysian is scammed or cheated. Online scams alone have involved billions of ringgit lost or stolen and new AI tools are enabling scammers as well. Once lost or stolen, recovering said assets can be near impossible (unless you’re really lucky). So, it is better to not get scammed in the first place by being aware of all the possible scams that exist here in Malaysia.

In our opinion, knowing is half the battle won so we’ve listed our top 3 common scams here in Malaysia. In addition, there are already many official online resources such as the Latest Trending Commercial Crimes ebook from PDRM, the Financial Consumer Alert list from Bank Negara Malaysia and more. Read on to avoid being scammed in Malaysia.

Those who live in the city have probably seen QR codes for payments everywhere. It's a handy way for Malaysians to make payments via e-wallet or banking apps, so we use it for faster payments. But criminals are also taking advantage of this.

If you have been on Facebook long enough, you have probably noticed some ads with Khairul Aming’s image or other KL Malls in them. If you see them, you might want to report them and stay away from them. You might wonder, why?

Scam cases have been on the rise lately. Thankfully, the MCMC has also been very active in countering this problem. According to a minister, the government body has blocked over 3150 scam-related media online

Scams and phishing are on the rise these days. Given how advanced technology is nowadays, it can be difficult to separate between false alerts and genuine emails from your bank. That said, Maybank just released a statement regarding a fake Maybank email.

Global cybersecurity and digital privacy company, Kaspersky has revealed that Malaysia ranked 10th in the top 20 countries targeted by malicious mailings last year. In fact, in 2022, our country saw an increase of 18 million malicious email attachments from previous years.

Encrypted messaging service Signal has revealed that the personal data of its users may have been compromised after its verification services provider, Twilio Inc fell victim to a phishing attack. In a blogpost yesterday, Signal said that the phone number of 1900 users could have been revealed by the incident.

I'm sure some of you have received spam messages from unknown phone numbers. Over the weekend, the Cyber Crime Alert Royal Malaysia Police announced that there's a fake Touch 'n Go (TnG) website phishing scam going on.

When it comes to an anti-virus program, Windows Defender is often shelved to the back replaced by more favourable anti-virus programs (Avast, Avira, and others). While that may sound like a sad situation, the team behind the program probably aren't affected at all and they are excited to showcase a public preview of Microsoft Defense ATP for Android phones.