{"id":4843,"date":"2025-07-08T13:11:56","date_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:11:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/08\/baittrap-over-17000-fake-news-websites-caught-fueling-investment-fraud-globally\/"},"modified":"2025-07-08T13:11:56","modified_gmt":"2025-07-08T13:11:56","slug":"baittrap-over-17000-fake-news-websites-caught-fueling-investment-fraud-globally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/08\/baittrap-over-17000-fake-news-websites-caught-fueling-investment-fraud-globally\/","title":{"rendered":"BaitTrap: Over 17,000 Fake News Websites Caught Fueling Investment Fraud Globally"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA newly released report by cybersecurity firm CTM360 reveals a large-scale scam operation utilizing fake news websites\u2014known as Baiting News Sites (BNS)\u2014to deceive users into online investment fraud across 50 countries.<br \/>\nThese BNS pages are made to look like real news outlets: CNN, BBC, CNBC, or regional media. They publish fake stories that feature public figures, central banks, or financial\u00a0A newly released report by cybersecurity firm CTM360 reveals a large-scale scam operation utilizing fake news websites\u2014known as Baiting News Sites (BNS)\u2014to deceive users into online investment fraud across 50 countries.<br \/>\nThese BNS pages are made to look like real news outlets: CNN, BBC, CNBC, or regional media. They publish fake stories that feature public figures, central banks, or financial\u00a0\u00a0The Hacker News<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u200bA newly released report by cybersecurity firm CTM360 reveals a large-scale scam operation utilizing fake news websites\u2014known as Baiting News Sites (BNS)\u2014to deceive users into online investment fraud across 50 countries. These BNS pages are made to look like real news outlets: CNN, BBC, CNBC, or regional media. They publish fake stories that feature public&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/2025\/07\/08\/baittrap-over-17000-fake-news-websites-caught-fueling-investment-fraud-globally\/\" class=\"\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">BaitTrap: Over 17,000 Fake News Websites Caught Fueling Investment Fraud Globally<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4844,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.cybertechworld.co.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}