Brittany Higgins will be financially wiped out if she is forced to personally pay Linda Reynolds $341,000 in damages and millions of dollars in legal costs but experts believe her trust fund may be legally protected setting the scene for a fresh legal fight. There’s also the question of how much money is actually left after she was awarded $2.4 …

Infamous cybercriminals known as the Yahoo Boys are now running “scam schools” teaching recruits how to cash in on everything from financial scams to sextortion using deepfake nude and porn photos. Social media platforms TikTok, Scribd, Telegram and Facebook are being used to advertise master classes, according to intelligence experts, while kingpins are setting up physical training rooms in Nigerian …

A drug dealer chasing a $1500 debt may have been hypervigilant when he fatally shot a buyer twice with a double-barrelled shotgun during a botched home invasion, a court has been told. Bahra Youseff killed 30-year-old Adnan Salameh by shooting him in his right thigh and shoulder in front of his partner in their granny flat in the western Sydney …

When a doctor, nurse or any other medical professional enters a hospital, a surgery or a clinic to treat another human, they have a moral obligation to provide equal care to that person, regardless of whether they are rich or poor, black or white, Christian, Muslim or any other faith. In the NSW medical system, Jewish people fear they cannot …

NSW Health is closely checking patient records to ensure no “adverse patient outcomes” have occurred involving Israeli and Jewish patients at Bankstown Hospital, Health Minister Ryan Park assured Sunrise viewers on Thursday. Park said he would “without a doubt” make the results public. The probe comes after a video which appears to show nurse Ahmad “Rashad” Nadir and colleague Sarah …

A US Army veteran who drove a pick-up truck into a crowd of New Year’s revellers in New Orleans, killing 14 people, had originally planned to kill his family, says the FBI. But the terror suspect was concerned about the types of headlines such an attack would generate. So he changed his plans because he wanted the media coverage to focus …

Australians looking online for love are often left heartbroken — and nationally more than $40 million out of pocket — police are warning as part of Scams Awareness Week. Cold-hearted criminals are targeting lonely people through romance scams, with South Australia Police sharing the real-life story of Karen* from Adelaide who lost $50,000 to a fraudster. Karen started a relationship, via an …

“Millions” of people could fall victim to scams using artificial intelligence to clone their voices, a UK bank has warned. Starling Bank, an online-only lender, said fraudsters are capable of using AI to replicate a person’s voice from just three seconds of audio found in, for example, a video the person has posted online. Scammers can then identify the person’s …

Just three seconds of audio could be enough for someone to get access to your savings, a major bank has warned. “Millions” of people could fall victim to scams using artificial intelligence to clone their voices, a UK bank has warned. Starling Bank, an online-only lender, said fraudsters are capable of using AI to replicate a person’s voice from just …

Lebanon’s civil defence department says five of its emergency workers have been killed by an Israeli air strike in the country’s south. The deaths follow a number of incidents in which Lebanese firefighters and paramedics claim they have been fired upon, or warned by the Israeli military not to rescue people or put out fires caused by bombing. Israeli and …