{"id":14127,"date":"2024-04-18T07:37:58","date_gmt":"2024-04-18T05:37:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/18\/students-turning-to-cyberfraud-as-huge-phishing-site-infiltrated-police-reveal\/"},"modified":"2024-04-18T07:37:58","modified_gmt":"2024-04-18T05:37:58","slug":"students-turning-to-cyberfraud-as-huge-phishing-site-infiltrated-police-reveal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/18\/students-turning-to-cyberfraud-as-huge-phishing-site-infiltrated-police-reveal\/","title":{"rendered":"Students turning to cyberfraud as huge phishing site infiltrated, police reveal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LabHost enabled users to set up websites designed to trick victims into revealing personal information \u2013 with 70,000 allegedly duped in the UK<\/p>\n<p>University students have turned to cyber fraud to boost their income, police have said, as they revealed they have infiltrated a huge phishing site on the dark web responsible for scamming tens of thousands of people.<\/p>\n<p>The site called LabHost was active since 2021 and was a cyber fraud superstore, allowing users to produce realistic-looking websites from household names such as the big banks, ensnaring victims around the world including 70,000 in the UK.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2024\/apr\/18\/students-turning-to-cyberfraud-as-huge-phishing-site-infiltrated-police-reveal\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/cba1e8b61101d29142bfb5d57ebb4bed2b165a5c\/195_271_3629_2177\/master\/3629.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=3dfac825f481e68c115319b408aa2430\" title=\"Students turning to cyberfraud as huge phishing site infiltrated, police reveal\" \/>LabHost enabled users to set up websites designed to trick victims into revealing personal information \u2013 with 70,000 allegedly duped in the UK<br \/>\nUniversity students have turned to cyber fraud to boost their income, police have said, as they revealed they have infiltrated a huge phishing site on the dark web responsible for scamming tens of thousands of people.<br \/>\nThe site called LabHost was active since 2021 and was a cyber fraud superstore, allowing users to produce realistic-looking websites from household names such as the big banks, ensnaring victims around the world including 70,000 in the UK. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LabHost enabled users to set up websites designed to trick victims into revealing personal information \u2013 with 70,000 allegedly duped in the UK University students have turned to cyber fraud to boost their income, police have said, as they revealed they have infiltrated a huge phishing site on the dark web responsible for scamming tens &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/18\/students-turning-to-cyberfraud-as-huge-phishing-site-infiltrated-police-reveal\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Students turning to cyberfraud as huge phishing site infiltrated, police reveal<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":14128,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14127"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}