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National Consumer Protection Week: Keeping your personal data safe in a digitally connected world

Webroot

March is a time for leprechauns and four-leaf clovers, and as luck would have it, its also a time to learn how to protect your private data from cybercrime. Each year, the first week of March (March 2-8) is recognized as National Consumer Protection Week (NCPW).

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Cybercriminals Accelerate Online Scams During Ramadan and Eid Fitr

Security Affairs

During the month of Ramadan, Resecurity observed a significant increase in fraudulent activities and scams. During the month of Ramadan, Resecurity observed a significant increase in fraudulent activities and scams, coinciding with a surge in retail and online transactions.

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Heard about the 16 billion passwords leak? Here are the facts and how to protect yourself

Zero Day

Unfortunately, many organizations will still prioritize secrecy over consumer protection in a bid to hush up incidents and protect their reputations.   Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams :  BEC scams  require an attacker to pretend to be a company employee, contractor, or service provider.

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16 billion passwords leaked across Apple, Google, more: What to know and how to protect yourself

Zero Day

Unfortunately, many organizations will still prioritize secrecy over consumer protection in a bid to hush up incidents and protect their reputations.   Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams :  BEC scams  require an attacker to pretend to be a company employee, contractor, or service provider.

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Exclusive: The largest mobile malware marketplace identified by Resecurity in the Dark Web

Security Affairs

In combination with other types of fraud such as business email compromisation, money laundering and investment scams that create a huge shadow economy with trillions of dollars circulating in the underground. In total, the loss from fraud exceeds 5,6 billion USD in 2022. ” – he added.

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We dig into the Game Players Code

Malwarebytes

Malicious ads, fake games, survey scams, phishing attacks…whatever you can think of, it’s in use. LLoyds Bank, in response to the never-ending glut of financial gaming fraud, has come up with something called “ Shield against scams ”. The “ I accidentally reported you ” scam is hitting saturation point at the moment.

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Past, present, and future of the Dark Web

Security Affairs

There are many blogs that for the greater part deal with issues of cybersecurity and the rights of the digital population in terms of consumer protection and privacy. Empty or non-functional web pages: Empty pages, typical errors displaying code 404 that feed the list of the.onion domains in the directories. CONCLUSIONS.

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