Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

At issue is a “redirect” feature available to businesses that chose to market through LinkedIn.com. Here’s the very first Slink created: [link] which redirects to the homepage for LinkedIn Marketing Solutions. A recent phishing site that abused LinkedIn’s marketing redirect. Image: Urlscan.io.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There are two main types of online fraud aimed at stealing user data and money: phishing and scams. The history of scams and phishing. Also in the 1990s, the first online scams appeared. Phishing and scams: current types of fraud. They just need to sign up and pay a small fee. Distribution.

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SecureBlitz

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Blockchain technology has dramatically evolved and is widely used worldwide. Hence, more and more businesses are searching for ways on how to use this technology in their project. Indeed, blockchain technology is quite popular nowadays due to various reasons. The post What Is Business Benefits Of The Blockchain Market?

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IT Security Guru

APRIL 5, 2024

Infiltrating various markets, it presents new and enhanced risks to this landscape. One of the primary markets touched by the evolving GenAI is cybersecurity. GenAI creates convincing images, so it can even create phony product listings for scams. The cybersecurity market is estimated to be worth around $182.84

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Effective immediately, that makes robocalls that implement voice cloning technology and target consumers illegal. Robocalls are automated phone calls, often associated with scams, which can be a nuisance to individuals and businesses alike. Violations of the TCPA are subject to stiff civil penalties. Do not engage with the call at all.

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Identity IQ

OCTOBER 31, 2023

Representing IDIQ on the CCOE Board is Michael Scheumack, IDIQ chief marketing and innovation officer. As a member of the Board of Directors, Scheumack brings more than 20 years of cybersecurity, technology and marketing experience in the financial, credit and identity theft protection industries.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 2, 2021

Internet scams are everywhere, inflicting billions of dollars in reported losses from victims each year. Anyone can fall for online scams, as tactics are tailored to the interests of all age groups. Let’s take a closer look at some of the most common scams: Coronavirus-related scams. A daily dose of spam.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

After a good start, the Internet-enabled, technological revolution we are living through has hit some bumps in the road. To celebrate Independence Day we want to draw your attention to five technologies that could improve life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness on the Internet. Onion networking.

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Digital Shadows

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In this blog, we’ll take a look at the components of a crypto scam, including investors, designers, developers, and marketers, as well as a few interesting trends that characterize this black market. In these sections, entire teams are put together to conduct cryptocurrency scams.

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The Last Watchdog

MARCH 20, 2023

Related: How Google, Facebook enable snooping In fact, a majority of scams occur through social engineering. As technology has rapidly exceeded all historical imaginings, opportunities for fraudsters to exploit their victims abound.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 30, 2024

These drastic changes are brought about to comply with the European Union’s (EU) Digital Markets Act (DMA). The Digital Markets Act (DMA) establishes a set of clearly defined objective criteria to identify “gatekeepers”. The Digital Markets Act aims to regulate the gatekeeper power of the largest digital companies.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2020

I had the chance to discuss this with Matt Keil, director of product marketing at Cequence Security , a Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Here are key takeaways: Romance scams Like many modern companies, Zoosk, the popular San Francisco-based dating site, rests on infrastructure that’s predominantly cloud-based. “So We spoke at RSA 2020.

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Jane Frankland

APRIL 17, 2024

As technology weaves deeper into our lives, the swift exchange of information has become our reality. I invite you to join me on a journey to understand the intricacies of secure transactions in our digitised world, where trust and technological innovation converge for a safer, more resilient digital future.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The six-month operation (July-December 2023) targeted organizations involved in seven types of online scams: business email compromise (BEC), ecommerce fraud, investment fraud, voice phishing , money laundering associated with illegal online gambling, romance scams , and online sextortion schemes.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2019

A penny stock is a security issued by a small company, generally for less than $5 per share, let’s see how crooks attempt to exploit them for scam s. Although it’s not always the case, opportunities to invest in penny stocks are frequently scams. They’re also sometimes called micro-cap or nano-cap stocks. Cleary, Jr.,

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BH Consulting

OCTOBER 2, 2023

In a lecture this year for Gresham College, she pointed out similarities between the language used by politicians and law enforcement, the security industry’s marketing teams, and even cybercriminals who use phishing and scams. On her excellent ‘Beyond the phish’ Substack, she made a plea to stop inventing new terms for scams.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Recently, a chilling example unfolded when a Hong Kong-based employee in a multinational corporation’s finance department fell victim to a sophisticated deepfake scam. million, orchestrated by scammers using deepfake technology to impersonate company executives convincingly.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2023

John Clifton Davies , a 60-year-old con man from the United Kingdom who fled the country in 2015 before being sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraud, has enjoyed a successful life abroad swindling technology startups by pretending to be a billionaire investor. The scam artist John Bernard a.k.a. ” The team from CodesToYou.

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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. NortonLifeLock and Avast appear to be betting on the next iteration of the huge and longstanding consumer antivirus market. So NortonLifeLock has acquired Avast for more than $8 billion. billion in 2016, for instance.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The hack was acknowledged by the forum’s current administrator, who assured members that their passwords were protected with a password obfuscation technology that was extremely difficult to crack. Roughly a week ago, the OGUsers homepage was defaced with a message stating the forum’s user database had been compromised.

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Hacker Combat

AUGUST 21, 2020

So, by now, you must have realized how crucial it is to learn how to avoid phishing scams online. You have to act logically to avoid phishing scams, and the best way is to recognize those fraudulent emails before you become a victim. Beware of online pop-ups scams. Make sure your devices are encrypted. Bottom Line.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2020

The Blacklist Alliance provides technologies and services to marketing firms concerned about lawsuits under the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), a 1991 law that restricts the making of telemarketing calls through the use of automatic telephone dialing systems and artificial or prerecorded voice messages.

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SecureList

MARCH 24, 2022

Blocking tended to be triggered by the detection of the User Agent string, which identifies the user’s browser, or based on their IP address, although there are also some technologies which analyze request headers. The randomization of tag attribute values which then have no further use in the code.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2022

In 2020, researchers from Athens University School of Information Sciences and Technology in Greece showed (PDF) how ransomware-as-a-service offerings might one day be executed through smart contracts. With the bull market being in full effect and volumes being high, the odds of reaching 400% profit will be very high once again.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting employees at GoDaddy , the world’s largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. In March, a voice phishing scam targeting GoDaddy support employees allowed attackers to assume control over at least a half-dozen domain names, including transaction brokering site escrow.com.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

A significant share of scam, phishing and malware attacks is about money. Financial phishing In 2023, online fraudsters continued to lure users to phishing and scam pages that mimicked the websites of popular brands and financial organizations. Money is what always attracts cybercriminals.

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

With new crypto coins appearing at a near daily rate, and an at times overwhelming volume of information and new technology out there, it’s important to know what you’re doing when looking to invest in a digital currency. The way these scams work is fairly simple, but they can be devastatingly effective. Watch out for Pump and Dumps.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 20, 2022

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are the new player in the financial investment market. NFTs are much the same; while they have entered the market as a form of ultra-modern art exchange, they are still financial instruments. Sometimes even having one eye on the trend can create the small amount of awareness needed to avoid a scam.

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Identity IQ

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Hermann’s deep expertise in identity theft protection, credit and financial education and leveraging data to implement scalable business solutions will immediately benefit Entryway as the organization works to create efficiencies through data collection to serve a greater number of at-risk individuals and families across all of its program markets.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 28, 2020

Many companies use Sendgrid to communicate with their customers via email, or else pay marketing firms to do that on their behalf using Sendgrid’s systems. Rob McEwen is CEO of Invaluement.com , an anti-spam firm whose data on junk email trends are used to improve the spam-blocking technologies deployed by several Fortune 100 companies.

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Security Affairs

MAY 26, 2024

million individuals North Korea-linked Kimsuky used a new Linux backdoor in recent attacks International Press – Newsletter Cybercrime Healthcare company WebTPA discloses breach affecting 2.5

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

2023 – Vaultinum , a leading provider of technology due diligence and audit solutions announced today the launch of a certified Timestamping offer, enabling the creation of traceable digital proofs. In an era marked by digital advances and rapid technological innovation, ensuring transparency and accountability in markets is critical.

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NSTIC

AUGUST 12, 2020

In March, we highlighted the work that NIST conducts in usable cybersecurity technology and protection against phishing scams by sharing thoughts from Kristen Greene, a NIST cognitive scientist. Greene provided excellent tips to help full-time telework employees understand and recognize potential phishing scams.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2023

Police seized BulletProftLink phishing-as-a-service (PhaaS) platform Serbian pleads guilty to running ‘Monopoly’ dark web drug market McLaren Health Care revealed that a data breach impacted 2.2 Virtual Kidnapping: AI Tools Are Enabling IRL Extortion Scams How a ‘Refund Fraud’ Gang Stole $700,000 From Amazon Info from 5.6

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2022

“There has been no violation of our platforms and technological infrastructure,” Banorte said. ” asked Ohad Zaidenberg , founder of CTI League , a volunteer emergency response community that emerged in 2020 to help fight COVID-19 related scams. ” That statement may be 100 percent true. . “Who does it?

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

We highlighted the growing popularity of cryptocurrencies and anticipated an increase in crypto scams. The forecast correctly emphasized that users had become more aware of crypto and would not easily fall for primitive scams. Malware loaders on the underground market: True.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Many of these merchants failed to realize that they had been scammed until after they had paid G Verifier.” The hard and honest way to do that is to create meaningful and authoritative content and word-of-mouth marketing. Many scammers are professional criminals and scams are common because they work. ” Services.

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