The Microsoft Defender team has discovered a coordinated campaign targeting software developers through malicious repositories posing as legitimate Next.js projects and technical assessment materials, ...

A developer-targeting campaign leveraged malicious Next.js repositories to trigger a covert RCE-to-C2 chain through standard ...

Kathmandu, Feb. 23 -- In the month before Nepal's parliamentary elections, popular Facebook pages with a combined six million followers posted about one political party far more than all others ...

In 2026, we expect scams to persist, especially as tools powered by artificial intelligence (AI) become more widely used. In this guide, we highlight several scam trends to watch out for and explain ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Steve Weisman writes about white-collar crime. While the crime may seem like something from another era, mail theft is big ...

Depositing a check used to mean driving to a branch and waiting in line. With an online bank, it usually means taking two photos and tapping a button. The process is simple, but there are a few ...

Over the past few months, rumors about stimulus checks have been making the rounds on the news and social media. Stimulus checks are direct federal payments the U.S. government has sent to households ...

As of December 2025, there is no approved fourth federal stimulus check. Former President Donald Trump has proposed a new round of payments, but this has not been approved by Congress. Arizona has ...

Savers and investors are being urged to use a new tool to beat scammers after figures suggested close to a million people had pension and investment money stolen by fraudsters last year. Investment ...

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The Federal Reserve is asking the public to weigh in on the future of its check-processing operations, signaling that significant cutbacks may be on the table as the use of paper checks in the United ...

You might expect a big check to clear instantly. You put it in your account, the balance goes up, and that's that. But banks don't treat large deposits the same way they treat smaller ones, and the ...