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…

5 days ago

Detecting Phishing Emails

Research paper: Rick Wash, “How Experts Detect Phishing Scam Emails“: Abstract: Phishing scam emails are emails that pretend to be…

1 month ago

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…

1 month ago

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…

2 months ago

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…

4 months ago

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…

5 months ago

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…

6 months ago

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…

7 months ago

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…

7 months ago

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…

7 months ago