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Elon Musk’s SpaceX ‘is Facilitating’ Scams via Starlink
Low Earth Pork: Pig-butchering scammers in Myanmar lose use of 2,500 Starlink terminals ...
Asian Scam Farms: ‘Industrial Scale,’ Warns UN Report
Bacon Redux: Pig butchering and other serious scams still thriving, despite crackdowns in Dubai and Myanmar ...
‘Microsoft’ Scammers Steal the Most, the FTC Says
Scammers impersonating Microsoft, Publishers Clearing House, Amazon and Apple are at the top of the FTC’s “who’s who” list. Based on consumer reports and complaints to the agency, hundreds of millions of ...
How to prepare for fraud this holiday season
The holiday season is upon us. Check out tips to prepare for the holiday shopping season and influx of fraud. The post How to prepare for fraud this holiday season appeared first ...
New API Research Shows 62% Growth in ATOs Targeting Login APIs
APIs are the Developer Tool of Choice and #1 Target for Malicious Use Today, everything is an app. A Tesla isn’t really a car – it’s a four-wheeled app. Every one of ...
Gift Card Gang Extracts Cash From 100k Inboxes Daily
Some of the most successful and lucrative online scams employ a "low-and-slow" approach -- avoiding detection or interference from researchers and law enforcement agencies by stealing small bits of cash from many ...
Threat Advisory: Recent High Volume Bot Traffic from IPVanish VPN Against Retailers
TL;DR A spike in malicious bot traffic with similar characteristics across more than 20 customers emanating from the same VPN vendor and its affiliated companies. Between July 21st and August 4th, average ...
Tales From the Front Lines: Retail Customer Stops $200k Gift Card Fraud Scheme
Our standard customer engagement process is to deploy Bot Defense into a customer environment to prove our value. We are often deployed alongside an existing general-purpose bot mitigation solution, with the customer ...
Report: Retail Sector Under Cybersecurity Siege
A report issued this week in advance of the holiday season by IntSights, a provider of a cybersecurity service that surfaces threats on the Dark Web, estimates that organized retail crime (ORC) ...
Breach at Cloud Solution Provider PCM Inc.
A digital intrusion at PCM Inc., a major U.S.-based cloud solution provider, allowed hackers to access email and file sharing systems for some of the company's clients, KrebsOnSecurity has learned ...
