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Fraud Shifts to Travel, Gaming Sites as Economies Reopen
Nathan Eddy | | account takeover attack, covid-19 fraud, Credential Compromise, Fraud, phishing attack
The prevalence of digital fraud attempts on businesses and consumers continues to rise as malicious actors are shifting their focus in 2021 from financial services to travel and leisure and other industries ...
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How to Prepare for a Cyberattack
Tim Mackey | | Incident Response, malware attack prevention, phishing attack, software bill of materials, software supply chain
Preventing cyberattacks isn’t easy. If it were, there wouldn’t be a continuous stream of ransomware attacks dominating news feeds, nor would the president of the United States feel compelled to issue executive ...
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Cryptomining Scam Apps, ‘Stealer’ Trojans Culled from Google Play
There’s a whole lot going on over at the Google Play store. First, Lookout researchers found 170 apps used in cryptomining scams that have snared more than 93,000 victims. Actually, only 25 ...
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China’s Cybercriminals Profit From Underground Data Monetization
Teri Robinson | | big data, business email compromise, compromised credentials, Data breach, phishing attack
Cybercriminals are using big data technology to make money from data obtained on the Chinese-language underground. Quelle surprise. An analysis of open source information and data drawn from a variety of closed ...
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3 Cybersecurity Goals for CISOs
If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that anything can happen. Honestly, how many of us had, “I will do my best to avoid a global pandemic,” as a New Year’s resolution ...
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Go Phish: Cybercriminals Stick to Coronavirus and Financial Content to Fuel Phishing Schemes
Alina Bizga | | archive, COVID-19, cybercrime, Digital Privacy, phishing attack, phishing campaign, phishing email, phishing-scam, work from home
We’ve reached the half-year mark and online scammers are still taking advantage of the uncertainties brought on by the pandemic. Cyber-attacks targeting both consumers and business surged worldwide, and the trend shows ...

New Phishing Scam Lures iPhone Owners with Romantic Chat, Gambling, ‘Free’ VPN
Filip Truta | | Alerts, dating app, email, Email Spam, free vpn app, gambling, how to, ICloud, icloud phishing, Industry News, ios, ios scam, iPhone, neuropathy, Phishing, phishing attack, phishing campaign, phishing-scam, Slider, slots machine, Spam, vpn app ios, vpn ios, vpn iphone
Bitdefender this week has detected a new phishing campaign targeting iPhone owners with a range of scams aiming to defraud unsuspecting victims. First things first. If you receive the email pictured below, ...
Financial Services Get Hooked, Experience 147% Increase in Phishing Clicks
According to JPMorgan Chase CEO Jamie Dimon, “The threat of cyber security may very well be the biggest threat to the US financial system.” Coupled with the fact that financial services is ...

New Homograph Phishing Attack Impersonates Bank of Valletta, Leverages Valid TLS Certificate
Liviu Arsene | | Anti-Malware Research, Bank of Valletta, homograph phishing, IDN homograph phishing, Miscellaneous, phishing attack, SpearPhishing
Bitdefender researchers recently uncovered a new IDN (internationalized domain name) homograph phishing attack in which attackers impersonate the Bank of Valletta, Malta. Bitdefender’s Deep Learning technologies, trained specifically to spot this type ...
Lancaster University Says Phishing Attack Behind Data Breach
David Bisson | | Data breach, IT Security and Data Protection, Lancaster University, Latest Security News, phishing attack
Lancaster University has revealed that a successful phishing attack resulted in a data breach involving the data of its students and applicants. On 22 July, the public research university announced on Twitter ...