The Last Watchdog

MARCH 20, 2023

Related: How Google, Facebook enable snooping In fact, a majority of scams occur through social engineering. The rise of social media has added to the many user-friendly digital tools scammers, sextortionists, and hackers can leverage in order to manipulate their victims.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Inova is an actuarial consultancy company, which means they compile statistical analysis and calculate insurance risks and premiums. Document sent to the insurance company by the victim’s lawyer. Identity theft. Inova has been operating since 2012 and has handled thousands of cases since then.

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Identity IQ

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Data breaches reached an all-time high, leaving a trail of identity theft cases. This has left victims scrambling to understand the extent of the damage and how to help protect themselves against the evolving threat of identity theft. Protecting yourself from the damages of data breaches and identity theft is paramount.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 7, 2022

It is used to avoid unauthorized data access, cyber-attacks, and identity theft. It needs to be maintained for various types of cyber threats like Ransomware, Malware, Social Engineering, and Phishing. Businesses have to comply with legal, insurance, and industry regulations for data storage, management, and transmission.

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Identity IQ

OCTOBER 9, 2022

Sadly, there are many ways scammers and hackers can source their victims’ email addresses, including buying them from data providers or the dark web , email harvesting, social engineering, fake websites or social media. From there, you can take the necessary steps to help avoid falling victim to identity theft.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 19, 2021

TMobile has now issued a formal apology and offered free identity theft recovery services to nearly 48 million customers for whom the telecom giant failed to protect their sensitive personal information. as well as insurance and merchant accounts, to commit insurance fraud and wire fraud.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

With the W2 variety, a citizen of the c-suite requests all the W2s from human resources or accounting–thereby collecting a rich file of personally identifiable information that can be used to commit tax-related fraud as well as all stripe of identity theft. So Isn’t BEC Just Another Form of Phishing?

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 4, 2022

On top of this, the organization is offering a free two-year membership to Experian's IdentityWorks, which helps protect against identity theft. This could be a very helpful move for those whose information has been impacted, because sometimes the effects of a data breach are not seen for an extended period of time.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Together, they use native English speakers to execute sophisticated social engineering operations, contributing significantly to their newfound dominance. To counter these methods, organizations should prioritize educating users on phishing and social engineering techniques. compared to Q3 2023.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 11, 2024

These sophisticated scams exploit our inherent trust in familiar faces and voices, making them dangerous tools for fake news, celebrity endorsements, and social engineering scams. IdentityIQ offers comprehensive identity theft protection to help you protect your personal information and stay ahead of potential threats and scams.

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Adam Levin

JULY 2, 2018

It is a useful strategy in the war against social engineering, which is basically trickery. Social engineering is the way a hacker gets you to do what s/he needs you to do in order to succeed in hacking you, whether that means getting you to click on a bad link or open an infected attachment.

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SC Magazine

JULY 13, 2021

Digital Shadows reports that out of its total client base, businesses operating in the financial services, food and beverage, technology, health care, and insurance verticals were responsible for nearly half of all total risk events observed. “We

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SC Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

As Schrader explained, a malicious actor could take the data corresponding to patient, provider and radiology service provider to infer the location of the individual, which can easily be paired with data from other public sources and social media. All signs point to overall security failings.

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Security Through Education

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The personal information collected could then be used to fraudulently bill federal health care programs and commit medical identity theft. Scammers often impersonate disaster relief organizations using social media, fake websites, and emails, to solicit donations or offer fake assistance.

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Identity IQ

AUGUST 3, 2022

In that case, they can potentially find other information about you that may be useful in identity theft or other crimes. Hackers can get access to computers connected to the same network as yours either through social engineering or physical access, such as stealing cables. By Hacking into Your Network.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2023

Unfortunately, the increasing reliance on digital systems and capabilities has also attracted an ever-growing number of malicious actors seeking to defraud businesses through phishing , social engineering , or ransomware attacks. Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA).

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Identity IQ

MARCH 13, 2021

Pandemic-themed attacks remain ever-present, and we’ve never observed such a convergence around a single social engineering lure for such an extended time,” Sherrod DeGrippo, Proofpoint senior director for threat research and detection, wrote in the report. These campaigns transcend borders, languages and industries.”.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 23, 2023

The answer, like most other cybersecurity-adjacent answers, lies in a combination of factors including social engineering , weak passwords, and other risky security moves or attacks. What to do when your credentials are compromised How are credentials compromised in the first place? In Australia, authentications increased by 14.1%.

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Security Through Education

APRIL 7, 2021

Social Security number. Personal health information, including Medicare and/or private health insurance information. Bad actors can then use this information for future medical insurance or identity theft schemes. They are trying to steal your personal and health insurance information. Tech Support Scams.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Companies will fight the human factor in cybersecurity to curb insider threat and social engineering to protect user data. Desperate to stop data leaks, people will insure against them. One way to do that might be to insure yourself against data breaches.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2021

It is the gateway to many types of damaging cyberattack including ransomware, malware, business email compromise (BEC), spoofing, identity theft, brand impersonation and credential compromise. The most imitated brands of 2020 clearly illustrate the social engineering effort that goes into cybercrime.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the contact tracing scams of 2020 similarly followed social engineering scripts that have been used in taxpayer identity theft schemes since the 1990s as well. Phishing emails were a prevalent mode of attack, and they have been in circulation since at least the mid-1990s.

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Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Social Engineering through Behavioral Data AI algorithms can analyze your online behavior, browsing history, and past purchases, which scammers can then use to tailor offers that look appealing. Shoppers seeking holiday deals may accidentally buy from these sites, only to unintentionally give their payment information to scammers.

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