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Common Holiday Scams and How to Avoid Them

Identity IQ

Be wary of these common online shopping scams: Fake websites and online stores: Scammers often create fake websites that mimic legitimate retailers, hoping to trick unsuspecting shoppers into entering their personal and payment information. But it also presents an opportunity for scammers to exploit.

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Hybrid phishing and vishing attacks hunt for credit card info

SC Magazine

A new blog post report has shone a light on the malicious practice known as voice phishing or vishing – a social engineering tactic that some cyber experts say has only grown in prominence since COVID-19 forced employees to work from home. Keep that politeness in check, he added, especially when someone is asking you for account details.

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BEST PRACTICES: How to protect yourself from the enduring scourge of malvertising

The Last Watchdog

If you visit a large retail website, you may encounter 100 or 150 third party companies that get access to your computing device. In yet another recent cutting-edge attack, cybercriminals targeted smaller online retailers with stealthy malware, dubbed CartThief , designed to exploit websites using the open-source Magento ecommerce platform.

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Cyber Security Roundup for April 2021

Security Boulevard

A roundup of UK focused Cyber and Information Security News, Blog Posts, Reports and general Threat Intelligence from the previous calendar month, March 2021. UK fashion retailer FatFace angered customers in its handling of a customer data theft hack. Microsoft Antivirus Now Automatically Mitigates Exchange Server Vulnerability.

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The stealthy email stealer in the TA505 hacker group’s arsenal

Security Affairs

In fact, many independent researchers pointed to a particular email attack wave probably related to the known TA505 hacking group , active since 2014 and focusing on Retail and Banking companies. As previously described, the malware’s principal purpose is to iterate through the filesystem looking for email accounts. Conclusion.

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Attacks against machine learning — an overview

Elie

This blog post survey the attacks techniques that target AI (artificial intelligence) systems and how to protect against them. Adversarial inputs include malicious documents designed to evade antivirus, and emails attempting to evade spam filters. Data poisoning attacks. active blackmarket. Obviously, this. massive surge of tickets.

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Attacks against machine learning — an overview

Elie

This blog post survey the attacks techniques that target AI (artificial intelligence) systems and how to protect against them. Adversarial inputs include malicious documents designed to evade antivirus, and emails attempting to evade spam filters. Data poisoning attacks. active blackmarket. Obviously, this. massive surge of tickets.