Book Internet Scams Social Engineering 
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JUNE 4, 2021
Fraudsters and scammers are in full attack mode as they prepare this year’s arsenal of fake booking websites and holiday offers to steal personal information and money from holidaymakers looking for last-minute deals and cheap property rentals. Why identifying fake booking deals can be difficult.
Malwarebytes
JANUARY 3, 2024
But first I want to share some more remarkable conclusions from the report: Charity scams that prey on concern about international conflicts and natural disasters are becoming more prevalent. The social engineering techniques used by fraudsters are growing in complexity. Don’t judge a book by its cover.
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Krebs on Security
JANUARY 30, 2024
2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials. A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff. Twilio disclosed in Aug.
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. In addition, even simple training or quizzes on how to spot a phishing attack will help individuals to avoid being caught up in a scam or a potential attack. Related: The coming of ubiquitous passwordless access.
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.
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.
The Last Watchdog
MAY 11, 2020
And this positive upswing could be reinforced by stricter adherence to, not just the letter, but the spirit of data security laws already on the books in several nations. In a typical BEC scam , an imposter carries out a con to persuade a subordinate employee to wire funds directly into a bank account controlled by the fraudsters.
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