Identity IQ

AUGUST 31, 2023

How to Identify and Avoid Holiday Phishing Scams IdentityIQ The holiday season brings joy, celebrations, and… a surge in online scams. While you’re shopping for gifts or booking flights, hackers are plotting to trick you into revealing your personal details and financial information. What Is a Phishing Scam? Their goal?

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Identity IQ

APRIL 6, 2022

Common Tech Support Scams and How to Avoid Them. Whether we’re ordering groceries or looking for new shoes, all we need to do is create an account, fill out some basic personal details and log in. But what happens when that account is compromised – or when we think that account is compromised? Travel industry scams.

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Security Through Education

MARCH 22, 2023

What does a government scam, an IT support scam and a romance scam have in common? Let’s see what lessons we can learn from scam artists to better protect ourselves. In his book “The Art of the Steal” Frank Abagnale said: “Hotel clerks and merchants didn’t question pilots and doctors too closely.”

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Identity IQ

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Roblox Scams: What Parents Need to Know IdentityIQ By now, you’ve more than likely heard the cheerful chatter of your child and their friends discussing Roblox and even been nagged on more than one occasion to buy them some Robux. What Is a Roblox Scam? A closer look at one of these scams showcases the cunning behind them.

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Identity IQ

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Common Holiday Scams and How to Avoid Them IdentityIQ The holiday season is a time for celebration, giving, and spending time with loved ones. Here are some of the most common holiday scams and how to help avoid them. Here are some of the most common holiday scams and how to help avoid them.

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Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Facebook Is an Open Book. Some of the information out there was granular enough to allow a variety of scams, but the most serious is SIM-card swapping scams, where a criminal, armed with enough information about you, and most crucially your phone number, arranges to have your number moved to a phone in the criminal’s possession. .

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Malwarebytes

MAY 6, 2022

Maybe if I’d stayed the course I’d now have my own “Become a millionaire in six months or less” e-book. However, it’s more likely I dodged a Bitcoin scam. The kind of scam where I’d have to use screenshots of my bank account slowly being drained of all available funds for my next blog post. Common Instagram Bitcoin scams.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2021

Overall, fraud accounts for 73% of all online attacks: 56% are scams (fraud that results in the victim voluntarily disclosing sensitive data) and 17% are phishing attacks (theft of bank card details). In 2020, a multi-stage scam called Rabbit Hole targeted companies’ brands, primarily retail and online services.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Identifying scams Before we dive headfirst into the cyber safety tips, let’s equip ourselves with the ultimate weapon: knowledge. Scams are the digital equivalent of a snake oil salesperson peddling miracle cures. Let’s embrace the golden rule of scam detection: skepticism. Sweepstakes and awards scams Congratulations!

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

It's just another day on the internet when the news is full of headlines about accounts being hacked. The second story was about a number of verified Twitter accounts having been "hacked" and then leveraged in Bitcoin scams. And then there's the account holder, the one who chose the password.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The profile also linked to Mr. Lee’s Twitter/X account , which features the same profile image. Sure, Doug said, here’s my Calendly profile, book a time and we’ll do it then. “Some of our users are facing issues with our service,” the message read. “We are actively working on fixing these problems.

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Hot for Security

MAY 25, 2021

The agency’s report reveals that 56% of accounts were linked to booking airline tickets online and just 29% to holiday accommodation. Online booking platforms such as Booking.com and Airbnb were mentioned by nearly 10% of victims. Avoid holiday fraud this year. Diligently study your invoices, terms and conditions and receipts.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 18, 2022

Iranian hacking group uses compromised email accounts to distribute MSP remote access tool. Electronic Sales Suppression Tools are cooking the books. Virtual kidnapping scam strikes again. Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Indiana sues TikTok, describes it as "Chinese Trojan Horse". Play ransomware attacks city of Antwerp.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 3, 2022

A real world scam which sucks the fun out of craft fairs has caused nothing but stress for victims. You’re given a link to a booking form for more information, and asked for payment via PayPal or similar methods. This isn’t an isolated case; this specific scam targeted people all across the UK. You’re a small business owner.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Among the most common ways that thieves extract cash from stolen credit card accounts is through purchasing pricey consumer goods online and reselling them on the black market. Most reshipping scams promise employees a monthly salary and even cash bonuses. Services like SWAT are known as “Drops for stuff” on cybercrime forums.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JANUARY 4, 2023

They can also use text messages to entice victims to click on links in scams known as “smishing.” “OK, If you click the link and provide your personal data, they will use it to commit fraud, hack into your other accounts, or sell it on the darkweb for profit. So what do smishing scams look like?” OK, what is Smishing?”

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Case in point: we’re already seeing scams targeting World Cup fans more than a year out from the event. Phishing is one of the oldest tricks in the book, precisely because it’s easy and often successful — particularly when users are in a rush to benefit from a deal that sounds too good to be true. Phishing for data.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 5, 2021

In what is known to our Cybersecurity Insiders, the accommodation booking agency meant for travelers suffered a data leak when scamsters called in 40 of its employees based in the United Arab Emirates to get sensitive info related to customers.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They might even lock you out of your own accounts by resetting your passwords. Hackers use intercepted data to hijack your current session on a website, giving them access to your private accounts and information. Check your social media accounts for active sessions and log out of any you don’t recognize.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 18, 2023

Several trip-related scams are doing the rounds right now, and we’re going to highlight some of the more prevalent ones. The risk of this has increased since Twitter started charging for blue checkmarks, as many legitimate accounts now sport no visible means of authentication. Here’s the main easyJet account , for example.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 16, 2023

The internet is full of Airbnb scams and accounts told by victims. Her scam suspicions were confirmed that day. In a TikTok clip detailing the events, she revealed she booked the place months before the New Year's Eve music festival she and her friends planned to attend. Airbnb host and scammer "Mr.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2024

“My slice”, the details of the Italian campaign Last year, a highly targeted phishing campaign that I renamed “My slice” (derived from the name of a variable in the javascript code of the landing page) targeted e-mail account holders of Italian organisations. This would prevent e-mails from being sent and received.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The FIFA World Cup 2022 has brought with it a spike in cyber attacks targeting football fans through fake streaming sites and lottery scams, leveraging the rush and excitement around these uncommon events to infect users with malware. Case 2: FIFA WorldCup related scams. Case Study 1 : Fake streaming sites.

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Hot for Security

JANUARY 26, 2021

The campaign seems to have started on January 25, as seen in the scam recipients’ multiple Twitter posts. This is so difficult especially when we read we may be contacted to book via email, text or letter.”. Review your credit card statements and bank accounts for any fraudulent charges. NHS COVID-19 phishing email.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

This deal reads like to the epilogue to a book titled The First 20 Years of the Supremely Lucrative Antivirus Market. There are simple steps consumers can take today, for free, to lower their overall risk of a cyber attack, including using multi-factor authentication for their accounts and using strong passwords.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 7, 2022

In a scheme reminiscent of some sort of comic book supervillain, Filippo Bernadini was arrested at JKF International Airport on Wednesday. Throwing the book at crime. According to the FBI, multiple fake email accounts were created, impersonating real people in the publishing space. Can I have your next book, please?

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Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 29, 2024

This post is about how we did it Finally, not shown in the piece, we spent time helping the targets understand how we found the data and showing them how to secure their online presence Bank scams and how to avoid them, with Alexis Conran We were asked to help make a TV show about the information that people share online being abused by scammers.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Fortunately, disclosure campaigns against this type of scam by public institutions and private companies are constant and frequent. Posteinfo, confirm your identity Using spoofing techniques, a text message ostensibly from Posteinfo collected in the history of legitimate messages invites identity confirmation to avoid bank account suspension.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Are they already firing out tweets, chatting in Discord channels, or even just looking to set up a Tik-Tok account? Find your friends (in other words, import your address book and make connections between email addresses and social media profiles). Any platform you can think of has scams particularly suited to it.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

users China-linked APT40 used ScanBox Framework in a long-running espionage campaign Russian streaming platform Start discloses a data breach impacting 7.5M users China-linked APT40 used ScanBox Framework in a long-running espionage campaign Russian streaming platform Start discloses a data breach impacting 7.5M

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

If you have doubts, check it out–go directly to your account or to the source, which you should always independently verify, if the communication refers to anything service or finance related. You go online and you can’t access your cloud account, or you can’t find data stored on a device or in a specific service.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

In each attack, the victims saw their email and financial accounts compromised after suffering an unauthorized SIM-swap, wherein attackers transferred each victim’s mobile phone number to a new device that they controlled. A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff. Twilio disclosed in Aug.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Unfortunately, scams are a fact of life online. The virtual ties that bind us are international now: Our public telephone numbers, social media accounts, email addresses, messaging apps, dating profiles, and even our physical mailboxes, can all be reached by any criminal and con artist from anywhere in the world.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 13, 2023

Finance fraud and phishing scams increase in Ireland, too Financial fraud and scams in Ireland have risen by 560 per cent in three years. It said the criminals often take over victims’ accounts and empty them of funds. The story also tracks a big increase in investment frauds, romance frauds and online auction scams since 2019.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2022

Online scams that try to separate the unwary from their cryptocurrency are a dime a dozen, but a great many seemingly disparate crypto scam websites tend to rely on the same dodgy infrastructure providers to remain online in the face of massive fraud and abuse complaints from their erstwhile customers. ” Ark-x2[.]org

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

A bug in Instagram exposed user accounts and phone numbers. Crooks hacked other celebrity Instagram accounts to push scams. Magecart attackers target mobile users of hotel chain booking websites. Once again thank you! Delaler Leads, a car dealer marketing firm exposed 198 Million records online.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

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