Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Though the reports guidance serves IT teams, its threats will impact individuals and small businesses everywhere. Comb through public divorce records across multiple states and countries to identify targets for romance scams, who receive messages and who can carry on with whole conversations composed and controlled by another AI agent.

Artificial Intelligence

eSecurity Planet

JUNE 30, 2025

5 Ease of use 5/5 Malwarebytes provides comprehensive tools to secure your devices, including antivirus, anti-malware, privacy protection, and scam protection. If you’re a sole proprietor facilitating a small team, managing a small office, or a boutique business with fewer employees, you can purchase Malware Team plans.

Password Management

Zero Day

JUNE 26, 2025

Also: How Avast's free AI-powered Scam Guardian protects you from online con artists According to Kaspersky, the malware targets iOS and Android devices. This spy, likely connected to the infamous SparkCat data stealer that emerged earlier this year, focuses on sensitive data, such as seed phrases for crypto wallets.

Password Management

Zero Day

JUNE 6, 2025

Also:  I clicked on four sneaky online scams on purpose - to show you how they work In March 2024, the company revealed that customer data from 2019 and earlier had been leaked on the dark web , affecting 7.6 million existing AT&T subscribers and 65.4 million former account holders.

Password Management

eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Even McAfee’s most basic plan includes a VPN, identity monitoring, and text scam detection. Norton 360 lacks text scam detection, but again, Norton does offer a free detection tool, Genie. Its features include ransomware protection, scam prevention, and cryptomining protection. 5 Pricing: 4.7/5 5 Core features: 3.3/5 per year.

Antivirus

SecureList

JUNE 25, 2025

How scammers and phishers trick victims into giving up accounts and money We continue to observe a wide range of phishing campaigns and scams targeting SMBs. SMBs can even find themselves targeted by classic Nigerian scams. In Nigerian scams, fraudsters typically cajole money.

Adware

Zero Day

JUNE 22, 2025

Breach victims can be individuals, small businesses, non-profits, or Fortune 500 companies.    Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams :  BEC scams  require an attacker to pretend to be a company employee, contractor, or service provider. million, a 10% increase from the previous year.

Passwords

SecureWorld News

JULY 16, 2025

AI Appreciation Day is a perfect opportunity to recognize how this technology is not just changing how we work, but fundamentally improving how small businesses can compete and thrive in today's digital economy." AI is turning what used to be clumsy scams into believable, highly customized attacks that can catch anyone off guard. "AI

Artificial Intelligence

Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2025

CISA adds Multiple Cisco Small Business RV Series Routers, Hitachi Vantara Pentaho BA Server, Microsoft Windows Win32k, and Progress WhatsUp Gold flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog U.S.

Data breaches

Zero Day

JUNE 19, 2025

"Passkeys are an upgrade in security compared to traditional passwords and one-time SMS codes because they are resistant to guessing or theft by malicious websites or scam links, making them effective against phishing and password spraying attacks," Facebook said in its announcement.

Passwords

BH Consulting

APRIL 30, 2025

Infosecurity Magazine led with the angle that ransomware is particularly affecting small businesses. Diving into e-commerce scams MORE How threat actors used Zooms remote control feature for a crypto scam. MORE US consumers lost $470 million through phone scams in 2024.

Data breaches

Zero Day

JUNE 20, 2025

Breach victims can be individuals, small businesses, non-profits, or Fortune 500 companies.    Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams :  BEC scams  require an attacker to pretend to be a company employee, contractor, or service provider. million, a 10% increase from the previous year.

Passwords

eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

McAfees most basic plan consists of a VPN and text scam detection features that Microsoft Defender lacks. Other highlighted features are data cleanup, which sends requests to online services to take down your personal information, and text scam detection. 5 Pricing: 4.7/5 5 Core features: 4/5 Advanced features: 4.3/5

Antivirus

Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Hello again, FakeBat: popular loader returns after months-long hiatus TikTok ordered to close Canada offices following “national security review” Air fryers are the latest surveillance threat you didn’t consider Malwarebytes acquires AzireVPN to fuel additional VPN features and functionalities Large eBay (..)

Small Business

eSecurity Planet

MAY 27, 2025

Microsoft Defender and Bitdefender are two popular small business security providers with multiple products for small teams. Microsoft Defender can protect your office solutions, like Word and Teams, and business endpoint devices. Microsoft Defender : Better for large SMBs and overall business needs (starts at $2.00

Antivirus

Zero Day

JUNE 13, 2025

It protects your device from a variety of attacks, including scam calls, harmful apps, unsafe websites, phishing attempts, malicious links, and more.

Password Management

Zero Day

JUNE 17, 2025

It protects your device from a variety of attacks, including scam calls, harmful apps, unsafe websites, phishing attempts, malicious links, and more.

Password Management

Zero Day

JUNE 30, 2025

Here's how to buy one Nintendo Switch 2 revealed: Specs, pricing, release date (out now), and more official details The $700 Android phone that made me forget about my Pixel 9 Pro Best small business web hosting services of 2025 Memorial Day headphone sales 2025 Best Linux VPNs of 2025 Best online video editors of 2025 Best CRM software of 2025 (..)

Software

Zero Day

JUNE 30, 2025

My verdict after testing one during a heat wave Finally, a premium multitool that doesn't feel like I'm getting scammed The top 10 laptops our readers are buying this year (no. 1 surprised us) ZDNET we equip you to harness the power of disruptive innovation, at work and at home.

Password Management

Zero Day

JUNE 13, 2025

Also:  The best free VPNs: Secure, safe, and tested solutions That's not to say all free proxies are scams -- far from it. How do I check to see if a proxy service is a scam? Any of these could indicate that a proxy service is a scam. Do proxies support protocols like SOCKS5 or HTTPS?

VPN

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

If you’re a small business looking for the secret sauce to cybersecurity, the secret is out: start with a cybersecurity policy and make the commitment to security a business-wide priority. Related: SMBs too often pay ransom Small businesses, including nonprofit organizations, are not immune to cyberattacks.

Small Business

Threatpost

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The cybercrooks spread the COVID-19 relief scam via Telegram and WhatsApp, and ultimately harvest account credentials and even pics of IDs.

Small Business

Troy Hunt

AUGUST 1, 2024

I'm supportive of our Aussie Cyber Security Act requiring ransom payments to be disclosed (and I'm unsupportive of those claiming it places an unfair burden on small businesses) You too can monitor your spouse using Spytech!

Spyware

Dark Reading

JULY 13, 2022

Businesses receive an invoice via email with a credit card charge and are asked to call a fake number and hand over personal information to receive a refund.

Small Business

Security Boulevard

JULY 29, 2021

While any company can be vulnerable to this type of attack, small- to medium-size companies are particularly vulnerable because it is easier for a scammer to do a bit of research online and identify the right […]… Read More.

Small Business

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 7, 2022

. “Overall, the three banks that provided complete data sets reported 35,848 cases of scams, involving over $25.9 “In the vast majority of these cases, the banks did not repay the customers that reported being scammed. In the case of Zelle scams, the answer is yes. ” Sen. .

Banking

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

As a small business, you’re likely concerned with drawing traffic and visitors to your site – but you may be attracting the wrong kind of attention. No matter how small your business is, you’re not too small to be hacked. In fact, 50% of small businesses in the US have been breached.

Small Business

CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 12, 2021

Britain’s National Cyber Security Centre has launched a special tool that will enable Microsoft Office 365 customers to flag scammed emails at just a click of a button. NCSC is encouraging small business users to use recently released security tool to protect their work environments from any kind of cyber threat.

Scams

eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 15, 2024

If you’re a small business owner, it’s crucial to understand the significance of cybersecurity and the steps needed to safeguard your data, customers, and company reputation. The Financial Impact of Cyberattacks For small businesses, the financial consequences of a cyberattack can be devastating.

Small Business

Identity IQ

APRIL 2, 2021

Victims lost the most money to business email compromise scams, romance and confidence schemes and investment fraud. Notably, last year saw the emergence of scams exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic. Phishing Scams. Phishing scams accounted for 241,342 complaints in the report, generating $54 million in total damages.

Scams

SC Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

Vendors had warned about the rise of COVID-19 scams throughout 2020. The second was the increase in the total cost of business email compromise (BEC) scams and email account compromise (EAC). “Ransomware is not even close to the amount of impact that BEC has to businesses.”

Scams

Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In 2023, the public primarily confronted two varieties of online scams: the technical and the topical. Technical scams abuse legitimate aspects of modern internet infrastructure to lead users to illegitimate or compromised sites. Topical scams, on the other hand, are simpler.

Scams

Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2019

Such scams typically notify the recipient that he/she is being sued, and instruct them to review the attached file and respond within a few days — or else. Here’s a look at a recent spam campaign that peppered more than 100,000 business email addresses with fake legal threats harboring malware.

Phishing

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

businesses and individuals through Business Email Compromise fraud and romance scams. ” an Eastern European cybercrime syndicate that has stolen more than $100 million from small businesses via malicious software over the past decade.

Cryptocurrency

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) recently launched a new website aimed at educating small business owners on the risks of cybercrime and the steps they can take to protect their business. Cyberattacks can be particularly devastating to small businesses. This amount climbs once indirect expenses are considered.

Small Business

Krebs on Security

MAY 24, 2019

. “The title insurance agency collects all kinds of documents from both the buyer and seller, including Social Security numbers, drivers licenses, account statements, and even internal corporate documents if you’re a small business. According to the FBI, BEC scams are the most costly form of cybercrime today.

Insurance

Threatpost

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Traditional e-mail based scams are also in the mix this year, one in particular that uses the legitimate app TeamViewer to take over victims’ systems.

Scams