Scams
Holiday Shopping Scams and Tips to Stay Safe
In our November monthly episode we discuss the scams that you may encounter this holiday shopping season due to the pandemic and our top tips on how to stay safe and more ...
Detecting Phishing Emails
Research paper: Rick Wash, “How Experts Detect Phishing Scam Emails“: Abstract: Phishing scam emails are emails that pretend to be something they are not in order to get the recipient of the ...
Protect Your Employees from Business Email Compromise Attacks
Menlo Imposter Threat Detection Flags Payloadless Attacks that Impersonate Senior Executives and Other VIPs Cyberattacks aren’t always delivered via a payload such as a link to a malicious URL or an infected ...
Deepfake Voice Technology Iterates on Old Phishing Strategies
As the world of AI and deepfake technology grows more complex, the risk that deepfakes pose to firms and individuals grows increasingly potent. This growing sophistication of the latest software and algorithms ...
85% of all YouTube Channels Removed in Q1 Flagged Over Malicious or Fraudulent Content
YouTube removed nearly 2 million channels in the first quarter of 2020, 85% of which were terminated due to the promotion of scams, misinformation, and, in some cases, for spreading malware. A ...
On the Twitter Hack
Twitter was hacked this week. Not a few people's Twitter accounts, but all of Twitter. Someone compromised the entire Twitter network, probably by stealing the log-in credentials of one of Twitter's system ...
Emergencies and Cyberattacks: 3 Common Scams
Emergencies and cyberattacks are hard enough on their own. But disasters bring out the worst in cybercriminals, and if an event can be exploited, you can be sure that a hacker is ...
Scammers Leverage Contact Tracing Measures, FTC Warns
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) issued a warning Tuesday regarding the way scammers could take advantage of contact tracing to steal personal information. A key strategy for preventing further spread of ...
Businesses Underestimate COVID-19 Cybersecurity Risks
COVID-19 has been impacting the world for at least five months, and cybercriminals have not let up in their attempts to manipulate the crisis for their own gain. For example, in the ...
COVID-19 Scam Roundup – April 27, 2020
The coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19) scam onslaught continues. Per Threatpost, digital attackers ramped up their activity over Q1 2020 to the extent that they were sending approximately 1.5 million coronavirus-themed attack emails by ...
