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Malwarebytes
MARCH 19, 2024
Armed with an email and password—which are easily bought online— and the 2FA code, an attacker could take over the victim’s online accounts. SIM swapping can be done in a number of ways, but perhaps the most common involves a social engineering attack on the victim’s carrier. Katz pleaded guilty before Chief U.S.
Malwarebytes
SEPTEMBER 12, 2022
This has resulted in no fewer than 194,905 accounts being compromised. Credential stuffing is an attack reliant on service users being a little lax with their password practices. If users of Site A reuse their password on sites B and C, this is a problem. In addition, we recommend avoiding using easy-to-guess passwords.
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Malwarebytes
OCTOBER 11, 2023
According to a recent post on its Facebook account, all of the corporation's public-facing applications have been back online since October 6, 2023, including "the website, Member Portal, eClaims for electronic submission of hospital claims, and EPRS for employer remittances." It was attacked on September 22, 2023.
SecureList
MAY 6, 2024
With trillions of dollars of digital payments made every year, it is no wonder that attackers target electronic wallets, online shopping accounts and other financial assets, inventing new techniques and reusing good old ones. Online shopping brands were the most popular lure, accounting for 41.65% of financial phishing attempts.
Identity IQ
APRIL 12, 2023
Furthermore, identity thieves can take out personal loans, open credit card accounts, and commit other fraud crimes in your name. Social Engineering Identity thieves manipulate victims’ emotions to get them to compromise their personal information. This could mean an identity thief has opened new accounts in your name.
Security Through Education
APRIL 7, 2021
Additionally, they may call pretending to be a company you do business with, like Amazon, or one that can fix your computer, such as Apple. In this scam, you get a phone call from Apple or Microsoft saying there’s a problem with your computer that they can fix. “Microsoft'” Calls — Your Computer Has a Problem.
The Last Watchdog
MAY 11, 2020
The Shamoon “wiper” virus , for instance, devastated Saudi oil company Aramaco, destroying the hard drives of more than 30,000 Aramaco computers and forcing a weeklong shutdown of the company’s internal network. A few months later the UAE stood up its National Electronic Security Authority (NESA) which proceeded to do much the same thing.
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