The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

QR code phishing attacks started landing in inboxes around the world about six months ago. Lieberman At this stage, companies should (at a minimum) educate their employees about the prevalence of these attacks, and the key things to look out for as the most basic form of protection against them.

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Security Through Education

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

In today’s digitally driven world, impersonation scams have become a growing concern, leaving countless individuals and organizations vulnerable to financial loss, identity theft, and reputational damage. Impersonation scams are deceptive tactics used by cybercriminals to pose as trusted entities or individuals to exploit victims.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Phishing emails are well-crafted emails that trick the user into clicking on links or attachments that collect personal and financial information or contain malware. Signs of a Phishing Email. A cybercriminal may disguise themselves as Amazon and send you a phishing email targeting your login information. Educate yourself.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

This tool, from Cofense, proactively engages employees via simulated attacks based on real-time threats for various phishing tactics. PhishMe’s online forum provides a series of scenarios, landing pages, attachments and educational pages. Organizations select the phishing templates and landing page for simulation. PhishingBox.

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Security Through Education

MARCH 15, 2021

The inevitability of taxes brings along another inevitability, tax-related scams. These three examples are just a sample of the scams attackers are using to target every one of us right now. There are scams for people who have already submitted their tax returns, and there are scams for people who have not. Keep informed.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 1, 2023

The Rise of AI Social Engineering Scams IdentityIQ In today’s digital age, social engineering scams have become an increasingly prevalent threat. In fact, last year, scams accounted for 80% of reported identity compromises to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC). Phishing attacks. Spear phishing attacks.

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Duo's Security Blog

APRIL 20, 2023

Through the first two months of 2023 alone, the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission’s Scamwatch reported more than 19,000 phishing reports with estimated financial losses of more than $5.2 What is phishing? This is part of what makes phishing attacks so dangerous.

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Security Through Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

An Fbi.gov article states that, “while these scams can happen at any time, they are especially prevalent after high-profile disasters. Charity Fraud Scam Vectors and Social Engineering Techniques. Some of these include phishing, vishing , social media, and crowdfunding platforms. In short, the campaign was a scam.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

A recently reported phishing and vishing campaign was designed to impersonate Geek Squad. 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.

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

companies as a primary target of a new phishing scheme. Cybercriminals have been using a phishing kit featuring fake Office 365 password alerts as a lure to target the credentials of chief executives, business owners and other high-level corporate leaders. The company could not be certain, however, if the V4 phishing kit was involved.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

The experts pointed out that crooks engaged in phishing activities have started to rely on the popular instant messaging platform more in recent months. On Telegram is possible to find channels that offer: Free phishing kits that can be used to target users of a large number of global and local brands. ” Phishing-as-a-Service.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting employees at GoDaddy , the world’s largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The incident is the latest incursion at GoDaddy that relied on tricking employees into transferring ownership and/or control over targeted domains to fraudsters. and 11:00 p.m. PST on Nov.

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Webroot

MAY 6, 2024

Phishing Gets Personal Phishing attacks are becoming more sophisticated, thanks to tools like generative AI, which enable attackers to personalize their campaigns for maximum impact. Educate yourself on common phishing tactics and train employees to recognize fraudulent emails.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 5, 2023

We often think of malvertising as being malicious ads that push malware or scams, and quite rightly so these are probably the most common payloads. However, malvertising is also a great vehicle for phishing attacks which we usually see more often via spam emails. Victims are entering their credit card number into a phishing website.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 10, 2023

This day serves as an annual reminder to increase awareness and education for leaders, IT decision-makers and the general public on the importance of identity management. If you are interested in participating in future blog surveys, please let us know by completing an (ISC)² Volunteer Application.

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Heimadal Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has issued a warning to US investors about scammers impersonating SEC employees via phone calls, voicemails, emails, and letters in government imposter scams. The post US Securities and Exchange Commission Is Warning Investors appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

According to Verizon’s 2023 Data Breach Investigations Report, 74% of breaches were caused by human error, with phishing and text message phishing scams being some of the leading causes. Stay educated. Taking an active role Your cybersecurity policy should address your employees and technology systems. Stay proactive.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Many organizations train employees to spot phishing emails, but few raise awareness of vishing phone scams. Most people are familiar with the term phishing, but not everyone knows about vishing. It is a type of fraudulent activity that falls under the general phishing category and aims to achieve the same objectives.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

Impersonation Scams. These range from simple to sophisticated scams to convince you they are genuine, in hopes that you feel comfortable sharing personal or financial information whether on the phone, via email, or text. Although BEC attacks may be targeted at business, they can also be used to scam individual people.

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Webroot

MAY 31, 2024

4 30% of phishing emails are opened by targeted users. 4 30% of phishing emails are opened by targeted users. It can infect your device through malicious downloads, phishing emails, or compromised websites, leading to potential loss of access to your computer, data, photos, and other valuable files.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 1, 2021

It is an online scam attack quite similar to Phishing. The term Pharming is a combination of two words Phishing and Farming. Pharming vs phishing. Though Pharming and Phishing share almost similar goals, the approach to conduct Pharming is entirely different from Phishing. DNS Poisoning.

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In a lecture this year for Gresham College, she pointed out similarities between the language used by politicians and law enforcement, the security industry’s marketing teams, and even cybercriminals who use phishing and scams. On her excellent ‘Beyond the phish’ Substack, she made a plea to stop inventing new terms for scams.

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SC Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

A pair of related phishing campaigns this year took the unusual step of intentionally avoiding malicious links or attachments in its emails – a sign that threat actors may recognize the need to come up with new tactics. Cofense researcher found version two of the phishing scam in March. Sean Gallup/Getty Images).

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

In 2014, a prominent member of the Russian language cybercrime community Antichat filed a complaint against DonChicho, saying this user scammed them and had used the email address dfyz_bk@bk.ru. A review of DonChicho’s posts shows this person was banned from several forums in 2014 for scamming other users.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Google Chromebook devices could rightly be called a game-changer for education. According to Google, 40 million students and educators were using Chromebook computers for learning as of last year. The respected technology blog TechRadar has even referred to 2021 as “the year of the Chromebook.”.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

As we mentioned in a previous blog , hackers come in many forms, but their methods can generally be classified into three distinct types of cybercriminals: The Impersonator – Hackers that pretend to be others, often using social engineering and human psychology to trick users. Let’s look at a few primary examples. Who is the Impersonator?

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 13, 2021

The question isn’t whether we should educate children about online safety, but how we can best inspire them to learn to be thoughtful, careful, and safe in the cyber world for their lifetime. Maybe they can learn ways to avoid scams and ways to care for their devices. Related: Web apps are being used to radicalize youth.

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BH Consulting

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It’s a scrollable online guide, written in plain English with graphics aimed at educating an audience that’s not necessarily familiar with the finer points of privacy law. Among the most popular lures and themes for the scams were payroll diversion, where the scammer asks to change their bank account or direct debit information.

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Security Through Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

They could pose as your hotel or airline by sending you convincing phishing emails. An attacker can easily find these types of automatic replies by means of mass phishing campaigns. This time of year also brings a surge of promotional scams. Beware of Delivery Scams! Deals and Promotions. Securing Your Business.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 17, 2023

Unfortunately, many organizations fail to educate their employees on the importance of cyber hygiene, leaving them vulnerable to phishing scams, malware infections, data breaches, and other cyber attacks. Tick-in-the-box training.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 14, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. Although phishing scams have been around about as long as the internet, hackers like OnePercent Group still rely on social engineering to fool high level members of corporate organizations. OnePercent utilizes a malicious file attachment via phishing email.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 23, 2023

Indeed, Search Engine Results Pages (SERPs) include paid Google ads that in some cases lead to scams or malware. For example, we saw an ad that pretended to be Amazon's login page but instead redirects users to a phishing site, first stealing their password before collecting their credit card number.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 26, 2018

There’s an art to this: just enough troll but also just enough hope that perhaps they’ll be able to scam the victim out of some hard-earned cash. For some reason, Quttera now also reports my blog as having "no malware detected" despite no change in the aforementioned blog post. We have a price!

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Security Through Education

JULY 18, 2023

Beware of social engineering attacks Understanding the dangers of phishing schemes and other internet scams help you to know what the criminals are looking for. When you understand how the scams work, you’re better prepared and better protected. Remember, if you hold yourself dear, protect yourself well.

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Security Through Education

APRIL 7, 2021

“Mobile phishing increases more than 300% as 2020 chaos continues.” The pandemic is providing the perfect cover for cybercrime, as can be seen in the alarming statistic from First Orion that criminals were able to get 270% more personal information in 2020 than in 2019 via vishing or phone scams. COVID-19 Scams.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 24, 2024

Stay Educated Digital security is constantly evolving, and staying informed is your first line of defense. Keeping up with digital security news through sources such as IdentityIQ blogs helps ensure you are aware of current online threats and best security practices.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

This blog was written by an independent guest blogger. The best way to arm yourself against such attacks is by educating yourself. According to a recent analysis conducted by Freshbooks on the rise of Covid scams, email remains one of the most vulnerable outlets for cybercriminals. What is email fatigue? The data of over 1.2

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