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How to Identify and Avoid Holiday Phishing Scams

Identity IQ

How to Identify and Avoid Holiday Phishing Scams IdentityIQ The holiday season brings joy, celebrations, and… a surge in online scams. Holiday phishing scams are an ongoing issue that ramps up when folks are feeling the most festive. What Is a Phishing Scam? How Does Phishing Work? Their goal?

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Man-in-the-Middle Phishing Attack

Schneier on Security

Here’s a phishing campaign that uses a man-in-the-middle attack to defeat multi-factor authentication: Microsoft observed a campaign that inserted an attacker-controlled proxy site between the account users and the work server they attempted to log into.

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Phishing scam takes $950k from DoorDash drivers

Malwarebytes

A particularly nasty slice of phishing, scamming, and social engineering is responsible for DoorDash drivers losing a group total of around $950k. A 21 year old man named David Smith, from Connecticut, allegedly figured out a way to extract large quantities of cash from drivers with a scam stretching back to 2020.

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QR Code Scams: What You Need to Know About This Phishing Tactic

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

QR Code Scams: What You Need to Know About This Phishing Tactic madhav Tue, 03/19/2024 - 06:10 In a world where individuals and organizations alike are increasingly dependent on digital processes, cybercriminals are constantly looking for and developing new ways to exploit technology to take advantage of their targets.

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Working Remotely? Follow These Five Tips to Avoid a Phishing Scam

Adam Levin

As more employees are working remotely in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic, businesses are being targeted by an increasing number of phishing campaigns. . It could very well be a business email compromise (BEC) scam, which cost businesses $26 billion in 2019 alone. The post Working Remotely?

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Email crypto phishing scams: stealing from hot and cold crypto wallets

SecureList

Hence, cybercriminals have little motivation to invest heavily into phishing campaigns, and so, techniques used in email attacks on hot wallets are hardly ever original or complex. Sample phishing email that targets Coinbase users After the user clicks the link, they are redirected to a page where they are asked to enter their seed phrase.

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Facebook fatal accident scam still rages on

Malwarebytes

First Facebook scam Translation: Deadly accident on highway causes several fatalities Notable about this one is that it was posted as a fundraiser and so does not allow comments, which blocks me from posting a warning that this is a scam. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) Go to your Security and Login Settings.

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