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<\/a>Code hidden inside PC motherboards left millions of machines vulnerable to malicious updates,\u00a0researchers revealed this week. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
Staff at security firm Eclypsium found code within hundreds of models of motherboards created by Taiwanese manufacturer Gigabyte that allowed an updater program to download and run another piece of software. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Scam news 2<\/p>\n\n\n\n Crooks are going after struggling students with a deal that\u2019s hard to refuse, and this one comes with a blackmail twist.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Many students are looking to online tutors for help. Homework is bad enough, but becoming a victim of extortion is a thing now. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n Scam news 3<\/p>\n\n\n\n MARYSVILLE, Wash. \u2013 The Washington State Patrol (WSP) is aware that a handful of WSP associated phone numbers are being \u201cspoofed\u201d \u2013 illegally obtained and used for fraudulent purposes \u2013 in an apparent scam to get the unsuspecting to provide their personal information. Read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Scam news 1 AI Is Being Used to \u2018Turbocharge\u2019 Scams Code hidden inside PC motherboards left millions of machines vulnerable to malicious updates,\u00a0researchers revealed this week. Staff at security firm Eclypsium found code within hundreds of models of motherboards created by Taiwanese manufacturer Gigabyte that allowed an updater program to download and run another piece […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2576","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-awareness","category-scam"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2576"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2580,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2576\/revisions\/2580"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2576"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2576"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ripandscam.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2576"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Online Tutor Extortion<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
<\/a>Phone Numbers Used in ID Scam<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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