2020 Hacking Identity Theft Social Engineering 
CyberSecurity Insiders
NOVEMBER 14, 2021
Identity theft (or ID theft) is not a new problem, but in today’s well-connected society it is a problem that grows at an incredible rate. . Put in a few words, ID theft is when someone pretends to be someone else, using their credentials and taking various actions in their name. 4: Educate Yourself.
Krebs on Security
JANUARY 19, 2021
military and government employees and giving it to an Islamic State hacker group in 2015 has been charged once again with fraud and identity theft. The release was granted in part due to Ferizi’s 2018 diagnosis if asthma, as well as a COVID outbreak at the facility where he was housed in 2020. He admitted to hacking a U.S.-based
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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. Sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity the accused was a key member of a criminal hacking group blamed for a string of cyber intrusions at major U.S.
Hot for Security
APRIL 5, 2021
Fact: The personal information associated with over 533 million Facebook users was made public on a hacking forum this Saturday. Check if your personal info has been stolen or made public on the internet with Bitdefender’s Digital Identity Protection tool. However, users shouldn’t bet on it.
Security Affairs
FEBRUARY 27, 2021
T-Mobile offers two years of free credit monitoring and identity theft detection services to impacted customers. Such kind of info could be used by hackers in social engineering attack against T-Mobile’s customer support employees with the intent of stealing the victim’s phone number. Pierluigi Paganini.
Adam Levin
DECEMBER 7, 2020
The cybersecurity industry faced a challenging combination of new and familiar challenges in 2020. In 2020, hackers actively exploited the Covid-19 pandemic as well as the resulting unemployment. 2020 saw a record number of ransomware attacks, and we can expect more of the same in 2021. At the beginning of 2020, U.S.
Adam Levin
MARCH 16, 2020
With the W2 variety, a citizen of the c-suite requests all the W2s from human resources or accounting–thereby collecting a rich file of personally identifiable information that can be used to commit tax-related fraud as well as all stripe of identity theft. So Isn’t BEC Just Another Form of Phishing?
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