SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

As vaccines are made available, the security industry expects a wide number of phishing scams to surface that lure people into buying “early releases” of vaccines from Pfizer and Moderna. Similarly, as President Biden tries to roll out COVID-19 relief, we expect to see scams around any new programs the new administration enacts.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 22, 2023

More than 450 workers at the United States Postal Service (USPS) lost more than $1 million in a direct deposit scam that left postal workers without pay, angry at the USPS for not heeding warnings of the scheme, and the agency scrambling to figure out exactly what happened. And this is, sadly, an example of why both of those are so critical."

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

VIPRE Security Group’s latest report, “Email Security in 2024: An Expert Insight into Email Threats,” delves into the cutting-edge tactics and technologies embraced by cybercriminals this year. This scam cleverly manipulates trust and the routine nature of order confirmations to breach personal security.

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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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Security Boulevard

MAY 5, 2023

Technology is something of a double-edged sword. The use of AI technology by cybercriminals can leave businesses more vulnerable to legitimate-seeming scams and cyberattacks; at the same time, AI can help defend against those attacks. These days, companies.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

A significant share of scam, phishing and malware attacks is about money. Amid the current threat landscape, Kaspersky has conducted a comprehensive analysis of the financial risks, pinpointing key trends and providing recommendations to effectively mitigate risks and enhance security posture.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

The kind that could throw off even your most security-aware employees. Carefully crafted emails like these containing a malicious link can fool even the most security-aware of employees. Preventing phishing attacks, like the latest phony HR scams, should not fall on individual employees alone.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Experts define CaaS as what happens when sophisticated hackers and criminals work together to create technology, toolkits, and methodologies geared toward carrying out cyberattacks. For example, a hacker may choose one vendor whose specialty uses open-source intelligence (OSINT) to identify the most lucrative targets for phishing scams.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 26, 2023

As all these marketplaces are exit scammed frequently, it can be assumed that the threat actor had decided to start a Telegram Channel to offer his services seamlessly, without the issues of Dark Web marketplace exit scams." Enterprises should continue to do what they should already be doing.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

MARCH 29, 2022

Although businesses in all sectors are actively adopting security controls like identity and access management to protect their data and resources, technology is evolving at such a fast pace that humans cannot keep up. It is not only technology that is evolving. Security analytics and customer experience are essential.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Earlier this year, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) published updated recommendations for phishing simulations in security awareness training programs. So deleting an email offering 25% off at Ed’s Golf Cart Repair Shop doesn’t mean a user is an expert at spotting scams. 5, Section 5.3 (pg.

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eSecurity Planet

JUNE 17, 2021

Back in the day, security training was largely reserved for IT security specialists and then extended to include IT personnel in general. These days, all employees need to be well educated in security best practices and good habits if the organization wishes to steer clear of ransomware and malware. Key Differentiators.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the whirlwind of technological advancements and societal transformations, the term “AI” has undoubtedly etched itself into the forefront of global discourse. As the fast-growing technology evolves, it has become a matter of policy making and regulation.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 6, 2023

By Doron Pinhas, Chief Technology Officer, Continuity. Many of these attacks took advantage of known vulnerabilities and security misconfigurations in storage and backup systems. Job dissatisfaction and surging unemployment across the technology sector is likely to spur more insider threats. This brings about a vicious circle.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 28, 2021

A recently discovered phishing scam that convincingly impersonates the Microsoft Windows logo with an HTML table serves as a new reminder of how social engineers can abuse various elements in emails to fool both human recipients and certain security solutions. A Microsoft building in Europe. efes, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons).

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SC Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

Indeed, Agari found that the average capital call payment scam seeks roughly $809,000 in wire transfers — more than seven times the average $72,000 sought in most BEC attacks over the last six months. However, for now the scam isn’t executed especially well, Hassold noted.

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BH Consulting

JANUARY 4, 2023

We only need to think back to the early days of COVID-19 and how criminals exploited the widespread uncertainty to spread scams, ransomware infections and other threats. A forecast from security software company Norton expects the worsening economic situation will drive cybercrime activity during 2023. 1 Check security preparedness.

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SC Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

Today’s columnist, Rob Shavell of Abine, points out that better employee training about deepfake technology can possibly stop the famous 2019 case where a UK executive was duped by phone into transferring $200,000+ to a Hungarian bank, but companies also need to do a better job of managing the personal information of employees.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Cybercriminals are masters at using technology and psychology to exploit basic human trust and compromise businesses of all sizes. While cybersecurity advice is often focused on technology like endpoint protection, firewalls and anti-virus, it’s important to remember that behind every breach is a human. Who is the Impersonator?

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 16, 2022

The FBI provides education, information sharing, networking, and workshops on emerging technologies and threats. InfraGard’s membership includes business executives, entrepreneurs, lawyers, security personnel, military and government officials, IT professionals, academia, and state and local law enforcement. False account.

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SC Magazine

JULY 6, 2021

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella has been a strong proponent for average users facing phishing scams, especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. Because it’s subject to individual’s behavior, insider risk has become every organization’s most complex security issue. WorldEconomicForum CreativeCommons CC BY-NC-SA 2.0.

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SC Magazine

MAY 14, 2021

Dirk Schrader, global vice president, security research, at New Net Technologies, said he expects to see sector-oriented spear-phishing campaigns as we come out of the pandemic. So, when the request to click on a link or open a document comes unexpectedly, there’s a far higher chance that the new victim will fall for the scam.

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Spinone

JANUARY 9, 2019

In this article we will discuss how to avoid phishing attacks in G Suite and provide phishing prevention best practices on how companies can enhance G Suite security awareness and protection against phishing scams. Cloud security concerns today are some of the most important and challenging problems that businesses have to face.

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Herjavec Group

MAY 19, 2022

Hackers are routinely attempting novel ways to infiltrate corporate networks so it’s important to ensure that your employees are aware of how their online behavior can make them – and you – more vulnerable. Build security awareness training modules to educate your employees on how to spot phishing emails or business-related scams.

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Webroot

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Social engineering and business email compromise (BEC) are two related cyberattack vectors that rely on human error to bypass the technology defenses businesses deploy to deter malware. Prepare for the inevitable – Use all the technology at your disposal to ensure a BEC attack doesn’t succeed. Social Engineering. Where to learn more.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

“Cyber criminal threat actors exploit network vulnerabilities to exfiltrate data and encrypt systems in a sector that is increasingly reliant on smart technologies, industrial control systems, and internet-based automation systems. Focus on cyber security awareness and training. ransomware and phishing scams).

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Security Through Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This time of year also brings a surge of promotional scams. With the increase of malware related scams mentioned at the outset, it is important to be on guard when searching through our inbox. If you mistype a website by accident, there may be a scam website deliberately misspelled to catch accidental web traffic.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2023

Cyberattacks are growing more complex as technology advances. It can be challenging for defences to distinguish between insider threats and regular user activity since insider threats employ genuine accounts, passwords, and IT technologies. These findings imply that security teams should prepare for them in 2023.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to help promote the month, which this year has the theme of "See Yourself in Cyber." Cybersecurity Awareness Month was first declared by President George W. Criminals leverage all of it, exposing people to scams," he said.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 16, 2023

Technology is increasingly part of our day-to-day life; we use it for communication, work, getting information, and even running our households with smart devices. However, as we spend more and more of our lives online and put our trust in technology, it becomes an increasingly accessible tool for abusers to utilize.

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SC Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in March released its 2020 Internet Crime Report with updated statistics on Business Email Compromise (BEC), Email Account Compromise (EAC), and COVID-19 scams. Security pros know better. There’s no single security solution that will stop all email attacks. billion in 2018 to $1.86

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 3, 2021

The threat landscape has changed dramatically over the past few years due to developments in technologies that have led to the rise of ransomware, malware, botnets, and other types of cybercrime. . Today, the post-COVID era is a time for organizations to rethink their security practices and fight back against malicious actors.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Outside the fearsome headlines, the lives of ordinary people are regularly hijacked through scams, account takeovers, and data leaks. Email as a technology is so old—and its traditional “spam blocker” chokepoint has become so seductive—that we’re misallocating scarce resources. The silver lining of Microsoft and Google.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

When openly available to the public, such information can be gathered and exploited in phishing, BEC and impersonation campaigns to craft more convincing scams. At the end of the day, promoting security awareness is paramount. Meanwhile, 93% of survey participants said that they set an OOO message while on vacation.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2021

The Institute for Science and Technology ' Ransomware Task Force ' (RTF), which is a collaboration of more than 60 stakeholders, finally released its ransomware framework , which comprised of 48 strategies to tackle the ransomware problem. Millions in the UK Targeted by Malware via a DHL Scam Text Message. The Ransomware Scourge.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 25, 2022

Peter Oggel, Chief Technology Officer, Irdeto. In this context, the prime risks are the responsibility and role of employees in ensuring data and information security. We repeatedly say that companies need to invest significantly in advanced protection tools and security awareness, including a Zero Trust approach.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 10, 2019

In the not-so-distant past, banks dealt with online and account takeover fraud, where hackers stole passwords and used phishing scams to target specific individuals. With technologies like AI, you can now measure the risk across the entire digital channel and user base. And that allows us to do more security awareness.”.

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