Google Security

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

SMS Spoofing: Attackers can spoof SMS messages to launch phishing attacks to make it appear as if they are from a legitimate sender. Malicious cyber attacks that exploit the insecurity of SMS have resulted in identity theft, personal or corporate financial losses, unauthorized access to accounts and services, and worse.

Mobile

Security Affairs

APRIL 20, 2023

Last year, with a total share of 18% of all cyberattacks, it was the second most targeted industry, following manufacturing. Screenshot of leaked filled-in KYC form According to researchers, threat actors could use leaked data to commit identity theft and fraud.

Banking

Appknox

JUNE 23, 2022

These attacks can lead to identity theft, banking theft, ransom-based threats, and even blackmail, depending on what information is compromised. Whaling is an evolved form of phishing that is highly organized and sophisticated. Whaling attacks always target victims who are susceptible to usual phishing tactics.

Social Engineering

SC Magazine

MARCH 10, 2021

granting them access to live and archived video feeds across multiple organizations, including manufacturing facilities, hospitals, schools, police departments and prisons. That type of information can be extremely valuable for things like identity theft.”. It is deeply invasive for anyone who’s captured on film.”.

Surveillance

Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 14, 2024

To counter these methods, organizations should prioritize educating users on phishing and social engineering techniques. Cybercriminals focus on targeting the manufacturing and HSA sectors as these sectors are much more susceptible to operational disruptions, making ransom demands more effective.

Ransomware

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JUNE 6, 2018

Since the report was released, “A security breach in India has left a billion people at risk of identity theft,” 2 Under Armour was breached affecting 150 million user accounts, Orbitz discovered a data breach potentially affecting 880,000 customers 3 , and “the U.S. This hacking ring stole $3.4 Interested in learning more?

Risk

Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Credentials—like usernames, email addresses, and passwords—often find their way into the wrong hands through various means, from malware and phishing attacks to simple user negligence. This can lead to account takeover, identity theft, financial loss, and data breaches.

Passwords

Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Credentials—like usernames, email addresses, and passwords—often find their way into the wrong hands through various means, from malware and phishing attacks to simple user negligence. This can lead to account takeover, identity theft, financial loss, and data breaches.

Passwords

CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Also, that threat actors, especially state-sponsored, and criminal enterprises would take advantage of the expanding cyber-attack surface by using their resources to employ more sophisticated means for discovering target vulnerabilities, automating phishing, and finding new deceptive paths for infiltrating malware.

Cybersecurity

SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Short-lived phishing sites often offered to see the premieres before the eagerly awaited movie or television show was scheduled to hit the screen. At the beginning of that year, we still observed phishing attacks that used the themes of infection and prevention as the bait.

Phishing

SecureList

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

To rush users into entering their data carelessly, on the phishing page, the scammers displayed warnings about dwindling accommodation availability and an imminent payment deadline for the booking. Potential victims were prompted to check their profile by entering their login credentials into a phishing form.

Phishing

Adam Levin

DECEMBER 27, 2019

As long as humans are well……human, phishing attacks will lead to ransomware infecting more and more networks, and businesses, municipalities and other organizations will continue to pay whatever they must in order to regain control of their data and systems. Ransomware will continue to thrive. The cloud will leak.

Cybersecurity

Adam Levin

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

To accomplish this Sisyphean assignment the Census Bureau is sending emails —email that will join the steady stream of phishing scams and spam already at our inboxes and discarded several times a day. Joe Biden’s campaign was targeted by the Chinese with phishing emails earlier this summer. We all know email is not secure.

Cybersecurity