Online Fraud Blog

Cyberfraud and emotional detachment

Jorge Jiménez
17.12.2018
Cybersecurity

A group of golfers were asked whether they would feel capable of moving the ball with their hand to place it in a more favorable position. A high percentage of these ...

Teens and Cyberdelinquency. The Impact of Low Online Self-Control.

Jorge Jiménez
22.11.2018
Cybersecurity

Today’s teens form part of Gen Z, young people who were born and raised in the new technology era, who cannot envisage an offline world with no access to the Internet or ...

The "Flow state": Hacking for hacking’s sake

Jorge Jiménez
06.11.2018
Cybersecurity

Paul Graham, one of the foremost experts and educators on the hacker phenomenon, talks about how two of top hackers’ main traits are their curiosity and their capacity ...

My personality may make me susceptible to phishing

Jorge Jiménez
15.10.2018
malware

There’s no question that phishing can be considered the star of the cybercrime world.

Cyberprofiling. Above and beyond digital fingerprint comparison.

buguroo
13.07.2018
Cybersecurity

Identity theft or misappropriation is one of the cybercrimes that has most risen in recent years, causing not only considerable economic losses but also undermining one ...

Cryptocurrency malware: an explosive mix!

Oscar Juárez
05.04.2018
online fraud

Since cryptocurrencies came on the scene in late 2008 and early 2009, new malware has gradually emerged that does its utmost to steal users’ wallets and ...

The world’s top 3 cybercrime and online fraud hotspots

buguroo
20.03.2018
RAT

When we’re on the subject of malware and cyber attacks, we usually focus our attention on cybercrime as a totally unknown, uniform entity. Nevertheless, cybersecurity ...

Cybercriminals in the Financial Sector: Understanding the culprits ...

buguroo
07.03.2018
malware

The digital threat environment has intensified considerably over the last five years. Hackers orchestrated approximately 1,056 data breaches worldwide in 2013, making ...

WebInject to mobile attack

Oscar Juárez
27.02.2018
malware

On multiple occasions, through bugFraud, we have detected WebInject attacks that begin with a computer banking Trojan and which, on account of the protection methods ...

RSA 2018 – Online fraud prevention: Deep Learning and Behavioral ...

buguroo
23.02.2018
deep learning

The RSA event is one of the most important worldwide for the cybersecurity industry. Thousands of people from across the globe travel there to stay abreast of the ...