Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2021

Phishing is today’s most dangerous cyberattack. Google noted a more than 600% spike in phishing attacks in 2020 compared to 2019 with a total of 2,145,013 phishing sites registered as of January 17, 2021, up from 1,690,000 on Jan 19, 2020. Phishing doesn’t discriminate. So did the 2020 Twitter hack.

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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Fraudsters had an early start anticipating the buzz surrounding tax filing season, with phishing campaigns impersonating the government agency as early as November 25, 2020, according to Bitdefender Antispam Lab. This warm-up was no coincidence, since the 2020 fiscal year raked in $2.3 IRS phishing email sample.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. ” Group-IB dubbed the gang by a different name — 0ktapus — which was a nod to how the criminal group phished employees for credentials.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The City of Philadelphia discloses a data breach that resulted from a cyber attack that took place on May 24 and that compromised City email accounts. The City of Philadelphia announced it is investigating a data breach after attackers that threat actors broke some of City email accounts containing personal and protected health information.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 28, 2020

January 28, 2020 marks the 13th iteration of Data Privacy Day. Indeed, they can abuse those keys to decrypt an organization’s data, create fraudulent identities and generate malicious certificates at will. The post How to Keep Your Information Safe for Data Privacy Day 2020 appeared first on Data Security Blog | Thales eSecurity.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Short-lived phishing sites often offered to see the premieres before the eagerly awaited movie or television show was scheduled to hit the screen. At the beginning of that year, we still observed phishing attacks that used the themes of infection and prevention as the bait. Others offered the coveted Green Pass without vaccination.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The report also stated that the FBI received more than 1,600 SIM swap complaints in 2021, dramatically up from 320 from 2018 to 2020. Here are tips to help prevent these types of phishing attacks and stay safe. A fraudster looking to hack any of your accounts can do so with these details. Minimizing SIM Swapping Attacks.

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Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In a notice to affected patients, the hospital disclosed that an unauthorized person accessed employee emails between June 2020 and January 2021 but was unable to say the level to which the emails were viewed. You can also get compensated for losses related to identity theft through identity theft insurance coverage.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 15, 2021

Phishing attacks hit an all-time high earlier this year, and your end-users should certainly be trained on how to identify them. The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has released its Phishing Activity Trends Report, 1st Quarter 2021 , which dives into phishing attacks and other identity theft techniques.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 22, 2021

Here is the report's opening paragraph: "In 2020, while the American public was focused on protecting our families from a global pandemic and helping others in need, cyber criminals took advantage of an opportunity to profit from our dependence on technology to go on an Internet crime spree. Business Email Compromise 2020.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 24, 2021

Fraud losses climbed to $56 billion in 2020 and identity fraud scams accounted for a staggering $43 billion of that cost, according to a new report. As consumers relied increasingly on digital payment products during 2020, identity fraud scams kept pace with this shift in behavior, the report reveals.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

“According to this actor, he had originally intended to send his targets—all senior-level executives—phishing emails to compromise their accounts, but after that was unsuccessful, he pivoted to this ransomware pretext,” Abnormal’s Crane Hassold wrote. Source: FBI/IC3 2020 Internet Crime Report.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

Researchers uncovered a possible credential stuffing campaign that is targeting Spotify accounts using a database of 380 million login credentials. Security experts from vpnMentor have uncovered a possible credential stuffing operation that affected some Spotify accounts. ” reads the post published by vpnMentor.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 6, 2021

However, security experts suggest it is better to change the password of an online account, respectively, to avoid any identity theft or phishing attacks in the future. As of Feb’2020, Twitch reportedly had over 3 million broadcasters on a monthly note, out of which 15 million were active daily.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2024

District Court in Seattle to three years in prison and more than $5 million in restitution for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Raoult and two other co-conspirators were charged with having hacked into protected computers of corporate entities and for the theft of stolen proprietary information.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2021

The leaked records include Clubhouse user IDs, names, usernames, Twitter handles, Instagram handles, number of followers, number of people followed by the users, accounts’ creation date, and invited by user profile names. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) on all your online accounts. Source CyberNews. photo URLs.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 19, 2021

According to the report , in 2020 the IC3 received 19,369 business email compromise (BEC) / email account compromise (EAC) complaints “with adjusted losses of over $1.8 million in 2020. Losses registered in 2020 totaled $4.2 On the ransomware front, the IC3 received 2,474 complaints with adjusted losses of over $29.1

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The company attempted to downplay the security breach, according to a notice of data incident sent to the Montana Attorney General’s office, EWA bacame aware of a recent phishing incident that had some limited impact on EWA email accounts on August 2, 2021. ” concludes the notice. ” concludes the notice.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Many third-party security solutions are designed to account for exactly this type of behavior. Even strong security can’t prevent an account from being hacked if account credentials are stolen in a phishing attack, one of the most common causes of identity theft. Web-borne malware remains widespread.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 19, 2021

Internet crime is ever present, and with the ongoing pandemic, levels of scams and fraud were exceptionally high in 2020. A state-by-state statistical breakdown of these cases were included in an accompanying report, 2020 State Reports, that you can browse through here. billion USD.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

billion, or roughly half, of the total losses in 2019 were attributed to generic email account compromise (EAC) complaints. Taking into account unknowables, we’re talking about a ballpark cost of roughly $75,000 per BEC-related complaint. So Isn’t BEC Just Another Form of Phishing?

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

202, SILVER SPRING, MD 20904 Kevin Colon - 8714 HAYSHED LANE, APT 302, COLUMBIA, MD 21045 Lorena Perez Herrera - 9466 GEORGIA AVE #1277, SILVER SPRING, MD 20910 * - Blondel is my favorite of this gang, claiming both Computer Science and Criminal Justice degrees and claiming to work in Cybersecurity including as a Phishing Analyst.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 28, 2020

On 2 November 2020 vpnMentor experts discovered that the 21 Buttons app was using a misconfigured AWS bucket that has exposed the data of hundreds of influencers. bank account numbers, PayPal email addresses), photos, and videos. 2020 Dates vendors contacted: 5th Nov., 2020 Dates Amazon Contacted: 10th Nov.,

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

And like everything else in 2020, these next few weeks promise to be a disaster. Credit cards offer markedly better fraud protections than debit cards , which connect directly to your bank account. Virtual credit cards similarly allow online shoppers to mask their financial accounts. Vary login credentials across accounts.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2020

The database was discovered by the Safety Detectives team of experts lead by the researcher Anurag Sen , it was over 8TB, the archive also included data of accounts registered between February and April 2020, as well as logs of accesses in the same period. billion records.” ” reads the post published by the researchers.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

“As of July 11th, 2020, our cybersecurity team has confirmed that an unauthorized third party accessed certain user data through a security breach at a LiveAuctioneers data processing partner that occurred on June 19, 2020.” Having these details makes it easier for threat actors to compromise the victims’ accounts.”

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

” , we mentioned that a cybercriminal could attack their victim by using targeted phishing e-mails to obtain access to the victim’s data. Such key positions include the CEO, HR department director, and chief accountant. The unsuspecting accountant asks the employee to send his new bank details.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

“During the 2020 holiday shopping season, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received over 17,000 complaints regarding the non-delivery of goods, resulting in losses over $53 million,” reads a public service announcement published by the FBI. Never use the same password on multiple accounts. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2021

The leak comes more than four months after Humana, the third-largest health insurance company in the US, notified 65,000 of its health plan members about a security breach where “a subcontractor’s employee disclosed medical records to unauthorized individuals” between October 12, 2020, and December 16, 2020.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 28, 2022

While it's unfortunate that many Russians will be unable to watch their favorite Netflix show, or even access their bank account, it is one of the only ways to assist Ukraine in its fight without escalating the conflict to a full-scale war. critical infrastructure in violation of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act (CFAA).".

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Additionally, the political season gave rise to phishing campaigns, a phenomenon that is likely to continue through the end of the year. The incidence of ransomware attacks has continued to climb, over 700% by some estimates in 2020 in comparison to 2019, with phishing emails being the primary vector. Look for trouble.”.

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Webroot

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

of consumer PCs in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and South America were infected during 2020. Comprehensive antivirus protection will also provide password protection for your online accounts through secure encryption. With lightning-fast scans, this line of defense offers always-on protection to safeguard your identity.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Most of the tax-related attacks follow a few tried and true methods: A phishing email or scam call from someone purporting to be from the IRS, or an accountant offering to help you get a big refund. And the consequences of that theft can be devastating. Identity theft is not to be taken lightly. Affiliates.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 2, 2021

billion in 2020. These criminals have used phishing, spoofing, extortion and various types of Internet-enabled fraud to target the most vulnerable in our society – medical workers searching for personal protective equipment, families looking for information about stimulus checks to help pay bills and many others. Phishing Scams.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 15, 2022

It’s not every day you manage to compromise an account with access to so much data. This included resetting the employee’s password for the email account where unauthorized activity was detected. Perhaps the attackers got lucky off the back of a mass-mail phish attempt.

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SC Magazine

MAY 24, 2021

Today’s columnist, Kimberly Sutherland of LexisNexis Risk Solutions, points out that as more people get vaccinated, young adults and seniors are most susceptible to identity theft scams related to vaccines and public displays of vaccination cards. There’s no doubt that 2020 brought about huge change. Credit: NIH).

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 2, 2022

New research from security firm CloudSEK shows that more than 3,200 mobile applications were leaking Twitter API (Application Program Interface) keys, which can be used to gain access and take over user accounts. Of those, 230 were leaking all four authorization credentials and could be used to fully take over Twitter accounts.

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