Filipino consumers are entering the peak holiday shopping season with heightened fears of mobile fraud, as new research from Appdome shows identity theft, synthetic fraud, and AI-powered scams are prompting users to delete or abandon apps at record levels.
The Pasig City Regional Trial Court has convicted a 31-year-old woman known by the alias “Ritchel” for attempted estafa committed through online fraud, the Philippine National Police Anti-Cybercrime Group (PNP-ACG) announced.
Included in the roster of social media influencers and online entities allegedly involved in promoting unlicensed online gambling platforms are Whamos Cruz, Toni Fowler, and Boy Tapang.
The report warns that the pace of AI adoption has far outstripped enterprise defenses, with 77% of organizations lacking essential data and AI security practices to protect business models, cloud systems and data pipelines.
The suite’s flagship feature, SmartSafe SilentAccess, enables direct real-time authentication over Smart Communications’ mobile network, removing the need for SMS-based one-time passwords.
The DICT also issued on Sunday, Nov. 2, an advisory alerting the public about a possible Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) or “traffic flood” attack detected on November 5, 2025, which could slow down or temporarily disable certain websites and online platforms.
Broadcast firm ABS-CBN has adopted the identity threat protection platform of US-based cybersecurity firm SpyCloud to strengthen its defenses against data breaches and account takeover attacks.
The National Privacy Commission (NPC) has officially concluded that no data breach occurred in the systems of G-Xchange Inc. (GXI), the operator of GCash, following a thorough technical investigation into reports of a massive data leak allegedly involving millions of user accounts.
In a statement, the CICC said its Cybercrime Investigation Office (CIO), in coordination with GCash, found that the data propagated by a dark Web user appeared to be recycled or previously exposed information, repackaged to look like a new breach.
