crime
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The IRS Won’t Send You Unsolicited Emails, So Don’t Fall for This Malware Tax Scam
Be on the lookout for suspicious-looking emails until April 18th, the end of tax season.
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Guns Have Overtaken Cars as Leading Cause of Traumatic Deaths in the U.S.
Gun-related fatalities have surpassed car crashes as the leading cause of deaths from physical trauma, according to new research. In recent years, more lives — and years of life — were lost to firearms than to motor vehicles. The majority of these deaths involved suicide, particularly among older white men, but Black Americans were more likely…
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A Hacker Group Has Been Framing People for Crimes They Didn’t Commit
For at least a decade, a shadowy hacker group has been targeting people throughout India, sometimes using its digital powers to plant fabricated evidence of criminal activity on their devices. That phony evidence has, in turn, often provided a pretext for the victims’ arrest.
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Don’t Fall for This Instagram Hijacking Scam
A new study shows cybercriminals have been hijacking the Instagram accounts of high-profile users, then extorting them for restored access.