Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

In October 2020, the US Justice Department charged a Ukrainian national, Mark Sokolovsky (28), with computer fraud for allegedly infecting millions of computers with the Raccoon Infostealer. Sokolovsky is charged with computer fraud, wire fraud, money laundering and aggravated identity theft.

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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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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 20, 2024

In the weeks leading up to the 2020 U.S. Even in the event that no personal data is collected, there can still be reason to take action to prevent the abuse of data that relates to behaviors, emotions, and preferences, that can lead to nefarious outcomes, identity theft, and military operational intelligence.”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The financial losses from these scams dwarf other fraud categories — such as identity theft or credit card fraud. According to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center ( IC3 ), consumers and businesses reported more than $4.2 Source: FBI/IC3 2020 Internet Crime Report.

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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. Most SIM swapping attacks occur when criminals gain access to your full name, address, date of birth and other sensitive information, most of which are available on the internet.

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Webroot

MAY 3, 2022

That’s why maintaining password integrity helps protect our online lives and reduces the risk of becoming a victim of identity theft or data loss. The average cost of a data breach in 2021 rose to over 4 million dollars , increasing 10% from 2020. For consumers, dealing with identity theft can involve a world of headache.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 14, 2024

Since 2020, several governments and organizations have banned, or considered banning, TikTok from their staff’s devices, but a complete ban of an internet app would be a first in the US. In 2020, India was the first country to ban TikTok , along with around 200 other Chinese apps that were all blocked from operating within the country.

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Webroot

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

of consumer PCs in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and South America were infected during 2020. Our Internet Security Plus with AntiVirus offers all of the same great features as our basic protection but with the added bonus of safeguarding three devices. In a word, yes. Keep the holidays merry and bright.

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Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Along with legitimate “Now Hiring” signs dotting retail stores and restaurants across the United States, job ads are popping up in social media feeds, the internet and inboxes promising some extraordinarily well-paying jobs — if applicants provide their Social Security numbers and other details upfront.

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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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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 28, 2020

There are different platforms that have carved out a niche for themselves on the internet. 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. 2020 Dates vendors contacted: 5th Nov., 2020 Date of Response: 22nd Dec.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 25, 2021

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. In 2020, phishing scams spiked by 510 percent between January and February alone. Protecting vulnerable users from internet threats.

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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. The vulnerability exploited by the intruders was patched back in 2020, but the employee never updated his Plex software. 9, 2024, U.S.

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SC Magazine

JULY 12, 2021

The lawsuit was filed in the New York Southern District Court by some of the 298,532 patients impacted by a PACS-related data breach reported in March 2020. Despite denials in court, Northeast Radiology released a breach notice in March 2020 that revealed Alliance Health had indeed already discovered it was exposing medical images.

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Vipre

JANUARY 25, 2021

According to the independent institute AV-TEST , the number of total new malware in 2020 increased by 13% compared to the last year, and malware for macOS by 1200% for the same period. An easy way to enhance your online security and privacy is by using a VPN while browsing the internet. Identity Theft Protection Tools.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 15, 2021

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. Phishing activity doubled in 2020, largely due to the pandemic and remote work, and continued to climb in the first month of 2021.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 6, 2022

In 2017, the identity theft protection company LifeLock was acquired by Symantec Corp. But many Norton users complain the mining program is difficult to remove, and reactions from longtime customers have ranged from unease and disbelief to, “Dude, where’s my crypto?” ” Norton 360 is owned by Tempe, Ariz.-based

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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.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 5, 2021

Check if your personal info has been stolen or made public on the internet with Bitdefender’s Digital Identity Protection tool. In 2020, customers who had already endured the fallout from the breach were targeted once again, in new blackmail campaigns. What type of data was leaked? However, users shouldn’t bet on it.

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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. Online surveys designed to steal personal information.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2019 annual Internet Crime Report included 467,361 complaints about suspected internet crime with losses of $3.5 Despite these efforts, losses from BEC scams are expected to continue to rise in 2020. Of those cases, 23,775 of them were business email compromises (BEC).

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

” The internet archive has a first snapshot dating back to October of 2000. Remember that a social security number, birth date, and a bank account number is all the information a cyber-criminal needs to perform identity theft. And the consequences of that theft can be devastating. A bad start! Stay safe, everyone!

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 22, 2022

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (ic3.gov) gov) has released their 2021 Internet Crime Report. The number of complaints increased by 7% to 847,376 from 2020 to 2021, however the reported losses increased by 64% year over year to $6.9 In 2020, the average victim lost $25,272, but in 2021, the average victim lost $39,344.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

And like everything else in 2020, these next few weeks promise to be a disaster. If you have to connect to the internet using a public network, do so with a virtual private network. VPNs encrypt data , making it much harder to intercept when transmitted through a shared or suspect internet connection. Check your credit reports.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 15, 2021

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. Phishing activity doubled in 2020, largely due to the pandemic and remote work, and continued to climb in the first month of 2021.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 2, 2021

The recent Federal Bureau of Investigations Internet Crime Report shows that cybercrime has spiked, leaving hundreds of thousands of victims and costing more than $4 billion. Moreover, losses due to internet crime increased by $700 million, growing from $3.5 billion in 2020. billion in 2020. billion in 2019 to $4.2

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 17, 2021

BankInfoSecurity reported that it had communicated with one person involved in the T-Mobile attack, who said the attackers got into the T-Mobile systems when the giant carrier left a gateway GPRS support node (GSSN) – which is a router between the company’s network and the internet – misconfigured, which exposed it to the internet.

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Vipre

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Hackers use this chaos to their advantage; in fact, a 2020 Experian survey found that one in four Americans have been a victim of identity theft or fraud during the holidays. . Like we mentioned above, identity theft and other forms of cybercrime tend to spike around the holiday season.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 29, 2021

Escobar reigned in the 80's when the internet was a just a crazy thought in the back of someone's mind. And with the staggering rise in ransomware attacks in 2020 and 2021, most hackers demand ransom payment to be made in Bitcoin. But a lot of examples of these criminal masterminds are from the past.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Leaked data contained information about more than 15,000 clients of Inova, people who had accidents and hired Inova between the start of 2018 and end of summer 2020. Identity theft. With large amounts of identity information being leaked about the clients in this breach, criminals can use it for identity theft.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) just published its Threat Landscape 2020 report. Identity Theft. Physical Manipulation, Damage, Theft and Loss. Now, let's look at some additional findings in the 2020 Threat Landscape study. What are the top cyber threats right now? Web-based Attacks. Ransomware.

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 10, 2022

According to a report by content delivery network specialist Akamai, there were 193 million such attacks worldwide in 2020, with two notable attacks coming in January and May 2021, when credential stuffing attack traffic cruised past 1 billion attacks for each day. Credential stuffing has become a steadily popular attack tool for bad actors.

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Security Through Education

APRIL 7, 2021

In fact, the FBI’s (Federal Bureau of Investigation) 2020 Internet Crime Report , refers to what is happening as an “ Internet crime spree.” billion people were active internet users as of October 2020. “Mobile phishing increases more than 300% as 2020 chaos continues.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 7, 2021

through September of 2021 has already surpassed the total number of compromises in 2020 by 17%, according to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).” Digital connectivity driven by the adoption of industrial internet of things and operational technology (OT) has further expanded the attack surface.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Identity Governance (IGA) Challenges abound in the enterprise that are opening the door to greater compliance and security risk. Ninety-five percent of cybersecurity breaches are due to human error (Symantec Internet Security Threat Report). Consequently, it minimizes the risk of individual identity theft by hackers.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

TMobile has now issued a formal apology and offered free identity theft recovery services to nearly 48 million customers for whom the telecom giant failed to protect their sensitive personal information. The configuration issue made this access point publicly available on the Internet. This was not a sophisticated attack.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

The Internet can provide doxers with all kinds of helpful information, such as the names and positions of employees, including those who occupy key positions in the company. This was exactly the technique used for the Twitter hack in the summer of 2020. — Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 31, 2020. Identity theft.

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