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Influence Tactics in Marketing and Sales

Security Through Education

According to Rob Sanders , digital marketing expert, social media platforms supply marketers with a vast amount of data to know what content is working and what isn’t. Marketers utilize aggregate data , collected from online purchases and website visits, alongside social engineering to keep you purchasing, downloading, and revisiting.

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Confessions of an ID Theft Kingpin, Part I

Krebs on Security

For several years beginning around 2010, a lone teenager in Vietnam named Hieu Minh Ngo ran one of the Internet’s most profitable and popular services for selling “ fullz ,” stolen identity records that included a consumer’s name, date of birth, Social Security number and email and physical address. BEGINNINGS.

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Phishers migrate to Telegram

Security Affairs

The creators of phishing bots and kits can get access to data that is gathered with their tools. “To attract larger audiences, scam operators advertise their services, promising to teach others how to phish for serious cash.” User personal data for sale. ” reads the post published by Kaspersky.

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IBM experts warn of malicious abuses of Apple Siri Shortcuts

Security Affairs

Attackers can also automate data collection from the device (user’s current physical address, IP address, contents of the clipboard, stored pictures/videos, contact information and more) and send them to the victims to scare them. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Ransomware Revival: Troldesh becomes a leader by the number of attacks

Security Affairs

CERT-GIB’s report is based on data collected and analyzed by the Threat Detection System (TDS) Polygon as part of operations to prevent and detect threats distributed online in H1 2019 in more than 60 countries. Cybercriminals use social engineering techniques to convince users to click on malicious links or extract archives.

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The Telegram phishing market

SecureList

As mentioned above, the creators of phishing bots and kits can get access to data collected with tools they made. To attract larger audiences, scam operators advertise their services, promising to teach others how to phish for serious cash. Phishers use OTP bots to try and hack 2FA. The calls are fully automated.

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Group-IB: $49.4 million of damage caused to Russia’s financial sector from cyber attacks

Security Affairs

GIB Threat Intelligence cyber threats data collection system has been named one of the best in class by Gartner, Forrester, and IDC. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.