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Chinese fraudsters: evading detection and monetizing stolen credit card information

CyberSecurity Insiders

Additionally, NFTs and eBooks are also suitable for money laundering. They may use methods such as pretending to be the rightful owner (social engineering) and calling the card company's call center to confirm the limit, disabling the one-time password authentication required for card use, or using other social engineering tactics.

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Retail and Hospitality Trending Holiday Cyber Threats

Duo's Security Blog

The Retail & Hospitality Information Sharing and Analysis Center (RH-ISAC) just released the 2022 Holiday Season Cyber Threat Trends report that reveals the most prevalent malware tools leveraged by cyber criminals this year, with phishing and fraud dominating the list.

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How to Stop Phishing Attacks with Protective DNS

Security Boulevard

Source: IBM Security: Cost of a Data Breach Report 2023) According to recent research, the number of phishing attacks vastly outpaces all other cyber threats. Phishing attackers are increasingly using social engineering techniques to personalize their attacks and target specific individuals or organizations.

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2022: The threat landscape is paved with faster and more complex attacks with no signs of stopping

Webroot

Malicious actors will continue to improve their social engineering tactics, making it more difficult to recognize deception and make it increasingly easier to become a victim, predicts Milbourne. Earlier in 2021, we detailed the hidden costs of ransomware in our eBook. Ransomware.

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Zero Trust Is a Journey and Businesses Have Many Rivers to Cross

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

Jenny Radcliffe, People Hacker & Social Engineer. If you would like to discover what other professionals have said and what advice they give to overcome these challenges, read our How Can You Trust an Untrusted Environment eBook. This higher likelihood of mistakes presents a unique challenge to achieving the Zero Trust Model.”.