eSecurity Planet

JULY 14, 2025

Insurance and payroll firms also breached Beyond airlines and retailers, insurance and benefits providers are also under siege. She stressed that even if a breach didn’t directly impact you, your information could still be used in phishing scams or identity theft.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Avoid phishing emails and messages You may receive emails or texts with fake Valentine's Day deals, electronic greeting cards (e-cards), or delivery notifications. If you spot an offer and need to verify it, go back to the original retailer's website instead of clicking through links," Machin said.

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Webroot

MAY 5, 2025

Phishing attacks are a significant threat to consumers, with cybercriminals constantly evolving their tactics to deceive unsuspecting individuals. The integration of artificial intelligence (AI) into phishing schemes has made these attacks even more sophisticated and challenging to detect. How AI enhances phishing attacks 1.

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Zero Day

JUNE 20, 2025

We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or service, we may earn affiliate commissions. Close Home Tech Security Heard about the 16 billion passwords leak?

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Webroot

MAY 9, 2025

Text scams, also known as smishing (SMS + phishing ), are on the rise. Youre asked for sensitive information like bank logins and passwords, which can be used to drain your bank account. These messages appear to be from legitimate retailers like Amazon, Walmart or Target. Sadly, many people fall for this type of fraud.

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Jane Frankland

MAY 3, 2025

While details remain sparse, reports suggest social engineering tactics like phishing, SIM swapping, and multi-factor authentication (MFA) fatigue attacks may have been used to infiltrate systems. Then, the focus of cyber attacks on retailers, and what lessons must be learned by business leaders and customers.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

And its not as if using a platform that is used by major retailers makes it safe. How to secure your web shop The most common attacks web shop owners need to worry about are: Credential phishing where the criminals try to steal your login credentials. Keep your software up to date.

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Webroot

APRIL 22, 2025

Retail and e-commerce: Retail and ecommerce businesses are vulnerable to breaches because they handle and store vast amounts of customer payment information, including addresses, credit card numbers and more. Use strong, unique passwords: Strong, unique passwords are a simple, yet powerful security tool.

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SecureList

MARCH 25, 2025

Key findings Phishing Banks were the most popular lure in 2024, accounting for 42.58% of financial phishing attempts. Amazon Online Shopping was mimicked by 33.19% of all phishing and scam pages targeting online store users in 2024. Cryptocurrency phishing saw an 83.37% year-over-year increase in 2024, with 10.7

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SecureWorld News

JULY 1, 2025

Generative AI sustains sophisticated, multi-channel social engineering for phishing campaigns to gain access privileges to critical infrastructure. CISA's September 2024 alert to the water sector laid bare how default passwords and internet-exposed controllers make even simple brute-force campaigns alarmingly successful.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 17, 2025

Voice-cloned phone scams: Rather than crude phishing emails, scammers use AI voice synthesis to call bankers or customers while mimicking a trusted person's voice. Augmented phishing and social media impersonation: Even text-based scams have become more convincing with AI.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Businesses, particularly those in financial services, healthcare, and retail sectors, suffer from operational disruptions and financial penalties. It's crucial to recognize that data breaches have enormous impacts on individuals, businesses, and society. Individuals risk identity theft, financial loss, and privacy violations.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2025

M&S is a major British multinational retailer headquartered in London. However, importantly, the data does not include useable card or payment details, and it also does not include any account passwords.” The company did not share technical details about the attack.

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Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2025

CISA adds SonicWall SMA100 and Apache HTTP Server flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Pro-Russia hacktivist group NoName057(16) is targeting Dutch organizations FBI shared a list of phishing domains associated with the LabHost PhaaS platform Canadian electric utility Nova Scotia Power and parent company Emera suffered a cyberattack (..)

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Key Points Phishing incidents rose during the reporting period (August 1 to October 31, 2024), accounting for 46% of all customer incidents. This increase is likely driven by high employee turnover and easy access to phishing kits. Meanwhile, “RansomHub” is rising rapidly due to its attractive ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model.

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Digital Shadows

DECEMBER 5, 2024

One private equity CISO reported a 400% increase in phishing attempts on acquired companies post-M&A deal announcements. One data-leak post involved a US retailer that was recently acquired by another, sharing dates of birth, email addresses, credit card data, and IP addresses for free (see Figure 1). Totaling an impressive $2.5

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SecureWorld News

JULY 10, 2025

A stark example came in early 2025: a major global retailer was breached not through its network, but via a little-known third-party SaaS provider handling employee onboarding. Many breaches begin with simple mistakes, such as default passwords on a vendor’s system.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Credit card skimmers We’re seeing a lot of online stores hosting credit card skimmers, especially smaller retailers. Instead, research the best deal at reputable retailers. In fact, when we looked, we saw 50 fake USPS sites set up in only a day: 2. Don’t get rushed into making decisions. Protect your online accounts.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2025

In October 2024, the security firm Silent Push published a lengthy analysis of how Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure were providing services to Funnull, a two-year-old Chinese content delivery network that hosts a wide variety of fake trading apps, pig butchering scams , gambling websites, and retail phishing pages. based cloud providers.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2025

Customers of French luxury retailer Louis Vuitton are being notified of a data breach affecting multiple countries, including the UK, South Korea, and Turkey. The company, owned by the French luxury group LVMH, notified authorities, including the Information Commissioner’s Office.

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Zero Day

JULY 1, 2025

We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or service, we may earn affiliate commissions.

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Security Affairs

MAY 11, 2025

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Javvad Malik

JULY 1, 2025

We are already hearing of tests being undertaken with AI shopping agents that can make purchases from other retailers on your behalf, using your stored payment information and preferences. AI agents don’t fall for phishing emails because they don’t have emotions to manipulate.

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Zero Day

JULY 17, 2025

We gather data from the best available sources, including vendor and retailer listings as well as other relevant and independent reviews sites. When you click through from our site to a retailer and buy a product or service, we may earn affiliate commissions.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2018

Google has not had any of its 85,000+ employees successfully phished on their work-related accounts since early 2017, when it began requiring all employees to use physical Security Keys in place of passwords and one-time codes, the company told KrebsOnSecurity. The basic model featured here retails for $20. a mobile device).

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our password at the breached entity. Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another.

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Duo's Security Blog

DECEMBER 12, 2022

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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Duo's Security Blog

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

With growing concerns around security, ransomware and retail breaches, there are a few key considerations that retailers should keep in mind when it comes to protecting their organizations. Retail’s great “digital transformation” sped up, as did the number of data breaches impacting retail. Data breach costs rose from $3.86

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

It’s worth noting that there’s no reason a legitimate retailer would need that last one — the skeleton key to your identity — to process a purchase.). Make sure your smartphone, tablet and laptop are password-protected, particularly if you’re in the habit of carrying them around wherever you go. Create long and strong passwords.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2023

The Brazilian retail arm of car manufacturing giant Volvo leaked sensitive files, putting its clientele in the vast South American country in peril. Volvo’s retailer in Brazil, Dimas Volvo, leaked sensitive files through its website. website, belonging to an independent Volvo retailer in the Santa Catarina region of Brazil.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 18, 2023

Phishing attacks continue to be one of the most significant threats facing organizations today. As businesses increasingly rely on digital communication channels, cybercriminals exploit vulnerabilities in email, SMS, and voice communications to launch sophisticated phishing attacks.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Scammers who use “phishing” emails (it looks like it’s from a brand you know, but it’s not) will include a link to a fake website where they’ll ask for your banking or other personal information. Legitimate retailers are never going to make you dig for the deals, so they aren’t going to put the good stuff in an attachment. Bottom line.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2019

Bad news for fitness and bodybuilding passionates, the popular online retailer Bodybuilding.com announced that hackers have broken into its systems. The popular online retailer website Bodybuilding.com announced last week that hackers have broken into its systems. ” As usual. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 17, 2019

Six hours after my story ran saying Wipro was in the throes of responding to a breach, the company was quoted in an Indian daily newspaper acknowledging a phishing incident. I then asked when the company believed the phishing attacks began, and Ballapuram said he could not confirm the approximate start date of the attacks beyond “weeks.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 10, 2022

“Frappo” acts as a Phishing-as-a-Service and enables cybercriminals the ability to host and generate high-quality phishing pages which impersonate major online banking, e-commerce, popular retailers, and online-services to steal customer data. Detailed analysis of the Phishing-As-A-Service Frappo is available here: [link].

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

My Lowe’s Life ads Combining ads with a phishing page is a proven recipe for success. Phishing site built with AI The threat actor registered several similarly looking domain names in order to trick their victims: myloveslife[.]net net mylifelowes[.]org org mylifelowes[.]net net myliveloves[.]net

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Adam Levin

MARCH 9, 2020

The retailer wasn’t alone. The best way to avoid getting skinned by e-skimming is standard issue: We all need to monitor our accounts, avoid using debit cards (because they are a direct money funnel), keep our password games strong, and generally practice good cyber hygiene. E-skimming is a hack. Too Many Coders in the Kitchen.

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