CEO fraud
Listen to These Recordings: Deepfake Social Engineering Scams Are Scaring Victims
Barry Strauss | | bec, btc, business email compromise, business text compromise, CEO fraud, deepfake, generative AI, human, Mobile, Mobile Phishing, Phishing, smishing, social engineering, social engineering scams
Deepfake social engineering scams have become an increasingly scary trend among cybercriminals to socially engineer victims into submission. The threat actors are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) voice cloning ...
Five Types of Business Email Compromise Attacks and How to Prevent Them
Barry Strauss | | Account Compromise, attorney impersonation, bec, BEC attacks, business email compromise, CEO fraud, data exfiltration, fake invoice schemes, FBI
In a recent blog, we cited the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and its Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) latest 2022 report, which emphasized a steep and significant rise in Business Email Compromise ...
Wanted: Disgruntled Employees to Deploy Ransomware
BrianKrebs | | Abnormal Security, bec, business email compromise, CEO fraud, Crane Hassold, FBI, Internet Crime Complaint Center, Latest Warnings, Locbit 2.0 ransomware, The Coming Storm
Criminal hackers will try almost anything to get inside a profitable enterprise and secure a million-dollar payday from a ransomware infection. Apparently now that includes emailing employees directly and asking them to ...
Five Emails you don’t want in your Inbox
Phishing attacks are the most common form of cyber attack. Why? The simplicity of email gives cybercriminals an easy route in, allowing them to reach users directly with no defensive barriers, to ...
Phishing Attacks remains a popular Money-Spinner for Cyber Criminals
F5 Labs’ latest Phishing and Fraud Report reveals that phishing continues to be one of the most prevalent ways cybercriminals are breaching data and making money in 2019.Over the years, phishing has ...
Cyber Security Roundup for September 2019
SecurityExpert | | aws, CEO fraud, cyber security roundup, ddos, Huawei, Microsoft, nation-state, NCSC, patching, Phishing, Ransomware, teletext holidays
Anyone over the age of 40 in the UK will remember patiently browsing for holidays bargains on their TV via Teletext. While the TV version of Teletext Holidays died out years ago ...
Form W-2 data thefts are rocketing, warns FBI
Graham Cluley | | CEO fraud, data theft, E-Threats, Industry News, IRS, security bloggers network, W-2 form
Businesses beware! Online criminals have ramped up their attempts to steal W-2 information from the finance and human resources departments of organisations, according to a warning issued by the FBI. In an ...