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Phishers Using Google Drive to Trick People into Visiting Malicious Websites
Reports emerged of phishers having abused a feature in Google Drive in an attempt to trick users into visiting malicious websites. In this scam wave, users reported having received Google Drive notifications ...
President Trump’s Campaign Website Defaced by Cryptocurrency Scammers
Unknown individuals temporarily defaced the official campaign website of President Donald Trump with a cryptocurrency scam. Twitter user Gabriel Lorenzo Greschler was among the first to spot the defacement, which is believed ...
U.S. Federal Court Issues Restraining Order against Tech Support Scheme
A federal court in the United States issued a temporary restraining order against a tech support scheme that’s alleged to have targeted U.S. consumers. On October 15, the U.S. District Court filed ...
Gift Cards Requested in Two-Thirds of BEC Attacks, Report Reveals
A report revealed that scammers requested funds in the form of gift cards in two-thirds of business email compromise (BEC) attacks. For a phishing trends report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG), ...
NCSC Blocks Large Fake Celebrity-Endorsed Investment Scam
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) from the UK has removed more than 300,000 URLs linked to ‘quick-get-rich’ frauds that used fake articles from personalities to trick people into sending money to ...
NCSC Shut Down 300K URLs Linked to Investment Scams in 4 Months
The National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) revealed it had shut down more than 300,000 URLs that linked to investment scams in a four-month period. In a news bulletin published on August 14, ...
Coinbase stopped scammers from stealing an extra $280,000 during Twitter hack
Maybe Coinbase should send Twitter an invoice, because it certainly sounds like their quick thinking helped prevent last week’s hack from leaving a lot more Twitter users with empty wallets. As we ...
Twitter Hack & Scam
What Happened?Twitter confirmed 130 celebrity Twitter accounts were targeted in the cyberattack on Wednesday 15th July, with 45 successfully compromised. The hacked Twitter accounts included high profile individuals such as Barack Obama, ...
Cybercriminals Take Over Famous Twitter Accounts, Start Bitcoin Scam
Several high-profile Twitter accounts, including those belonging to Apple, Bill Gates and Elon Musk, started to tweet in support of a Bitcoin scam, promising to double the money that people would send ...
Nigerian National Extradited to United States on BEC Scam Charges
A Nigerian national entered into the custody of the FBI to face charges of having targeted several U.S. companies with business email compromise (BEC) scams. On July 3, the U.S. Attorney’s Office ...
