A new consumer alert from web safety advisory body the Digital Citizens Alliance (DCA) urges Brazilian authorities and consumer safety organisations to warn citizens about the serious cyber security risks of relying on digital piracy sites to watch the 2024 Copa do Brasil finals. The October 2024 alert, Offsides: How Criminals Are Exploiting the Copa […]

Criminals overseas make billions of dollars targeting Americans while operating in countries out of reach of US law enforcement, but a new report suggests lawmakers consider an approach adopted by dozens of countries: blocking criminals’ websites from working in the United States. The new research, Overseas and Out of Reach: International Video Piracy and U.S. […]

Internet users increasingly rely upon virtual private networks (VPNs) to ensure their online privacy, but VPN providers have a dubious track record of breaking promises to safeguard their customers’ privacy, engaging in shady efforts to woo potential customers, and associating with entities in the dark underbelly of the Internet that target users for harm, according […]

Internet users who use a credit card to sign up for illegal piracy streaming services to gain access to movies, TV shows, and games, face a serious risk of having their card run up with charges they didn’t authorise, according to a new investigation from Internet threat education body Digital Citizens Alliance. The report, Giving […]

Visitors to piracy sites are bombarded with malicious ads that use scare tactics to trick them into downloading malware, including ransomware that takes over files to force victims to pay to regain access, a joint investigation by the Digital Citizens Alliance, White Bullet, and Unit 221B has found. The investigation also found that these malicious […]

Millions of Americans who are conducting sensitive or confidential work on home networks during the Covid-19 crisis are substantially more likely to face malware and other security threats if they also have piracy devices and apps in their homes, according to a new study from Internet threat education body Digital Citizens Alliance (DCA). A research […]