by simona derubis | Feb 17, 2026
One email, one wire transfer, 1.8 million euros vanished into thin air. The story of how digital criminals robbed the cultural heart of Florence. It’s August 2024. Fabrizio Lucchetti, director of the Opera di Santa Maria del Fiore, is overseeing restoration work...
by simona derubis | Oct 3, 2025
In Italy’s hospitality world, behind the convenience of online bookings lurks an increasingly sophisticated threat: scams carried out through virtual credit cards (VCCs) issued by booking portals. This phenomenon is hitting Italian accommodations hard, from small...
by simona derubis | Feb 14, 2025
Brad Pitt for Valentine’s Day? Beware of the heart and especially romantic scams! Valentine’s Day, for many the feast of love, for many others a time of great vulnerability, and for unscrupulous cybercriminals a golden opportunity to exploit the frailties...
by simona derubis | Nov 21, 2024
While a man in Italy is being robbed of 39 thousand euros by spoofing, Britons are being protected by an adorable virtual granny: AI daisy! We have all at one time or another in our lives stumbled upon a phone call with an elderly person who kept us on the phone for a...
by simona derubis | Jul 19, 2024
Watch out for online booking scam In front of the desk, at the end of a year’s work, imprisoned in clothes too buttoned up for summer temperatures, the mind a little clouded by fatigue, the thought of vacation, of freedom, of flip-flops, is irresistible....
