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“The District urges people to be cautious of phishing scam emails,” a public service announcement said on Friday.

Manitoba's auditor general says the government should improve some encryption settings and do more to train staff in phishing and other scams to support work-from-home policies.

The organization behind the Concession A25 toll bridge connecting Laval and Montreal has issued a warning to drivers over the fraudulent messages.

Guelph police say spear phishing is targeting businesses and organizations using convincing emails from seemingly trusted sources. Businesses are encouraged to be careful.

Investigators say the text messages are examples of a scam they call 'smishing.'

'We want to be as accessible and as accommodating as possible when providing these workshops as well,' Flett said.

After the University of Winnipeg discovered it was the victim of a cyberattack, a technology analyst said there are shortfalls in cybersecurity that need to be addressed.

In 2023, reported frauds increased 41 per cent, driven by tap schemes and phone or online scams, Triance told councillors. 

Experts say cyber attacks are getting more numerous, more complex and easier - and that Canada's regulations don't go far enough to help companies stay safe.

Vancouver police are holding a series of workshops in the city aimed at arming seniors with the tools they need to ward off scammers.

Huajie Xu told immigration officials he came to Canada for its air quality. Court records show he is a veteran of China's People's Liberation Army.

The employee was tricked into transferring $200 million Hong Kong dollars into five bank accounts after joining a video call with convincing AI fakes of their coworkers.

“I haven’t seen anything like it,” Canada Research Chair in Security and Privacy Natalia Stakhanova told Global News Wednesday. “It’s a different scale.”

An Edmonton man says he is out half a million dollars after he invested it in a cryptocurrency-based scam. He's now found a non-profit group dedicated to getting it back.

The U.K. and U.S. said a hacking group aligned with the Russian FSB has been targeting politicians and other groups and individuals with the goal of undermining democracy.

An Alberta small business owner is calling on Alberta's largest bank to up its security after she was scammed out of $65,000 and had to fight to get some of it back.

Canadian companies are paying more than $1 million on average to ransomware attacks, a report finds. That's a 150 per cent increase in two years.

A Calgary company is warning others after falling victim to a new, online scam using QR codes to defraud victims out of their money.

Even for those with generally good spending habits, some common mistakes can tarnish, or even outright tank, a credit rating - and it's not always as obvious as serious debt.

Since 2015, at least 14 major cyberattacks have targeted Canadian health information systems, according to an article published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal.