The program focuses on potential abuse methods across Google’s product-specific channels like Google+, Youtube, Gmail and Blogger.

The emails claim that all of the victim’s devices have been hacked and infected with the infamous ransomware — and then ask for Bitcoin to “fix” it.

Two Canadian banks reported that they may be targets of a hack after fraudsters claimed that they electronically accessed personal and account information.

A type of card-not-present fraud is spreading throughout the Latin American underground, uniting groups of malefactors in a communal effort to perpetrate it as widely as possible.

Tech-support scams took off during the year, while whaling/business email compromise was the main threat, accounting for losses of more than $675 million.

The two have been arraigned in a Georgia district court on charges relating to an elaborate voice- and SMS-phishing (i.e., vishing/smishing) scheme.

Flashpoint warns of a new business email compromise campaign targeting organizations in various industries with the aim of harvesting credentials.

Mike Mimoso and Tom Spring discuss this week’s security news, including a discussion on recent hijacking of popular Chrome extensions and Adobe’s decision to end-of-life Flash Player.

Google has removed the Interface Online Chrome extension from the Chrome Web Store. The plugin was used by criminals in Brazil to target corporate users with the aim of stealing banking credentials.

Apple has removed one of its top 10 grossing productivity apps after an independent developer’s story about fraudsters’ abuse of the App Store’s Search Ads functionality went viral.