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It’s a familiar story: scam artists impersonate a trusted brand, a trusted business or a trusted authority in emails and on bogus sites designed to exploit that very trust to commit fraud. Generally, this isn’t the fault of the person or organ…
The University of Sydney has issued advice to help students and staff avoid falling for social engineering attacks.
DomainTools warns that a sophisticated West Africa-based fraud group is impersonating the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) to target users in the United States, according to researchers at DomainTools. The threat actors are atte…
According to Microsoft’s Security Intelligence team, a recent business email compromise attack (BEC) has shown that threat actors are quickening the pace of these attacks, with certain elements only taking a few minutes.
For those who haven’t followed the drama, Silicon Valley Bank has been shut down by the California Department of Financial Protection and Innovation, after a bank run that followed an insolvency risk and a stock crash. The Federal Deposit Insurance Cor…
A new survey of individuals across seven countries shows that users may have had luck on their side, as a majority aren’t sure about their device security or how to spot malicious sites online.
Researchers at CloudSEK have published a report looking at fraudulent customer service phone numbers in India. The researchers found around 20,000 of these phone numbers targeting users in India. The scammers purchase SIM cards from dark web m…
This morning, Bloomberg News pointed at a brand new article at BusinessWeek, one of their media properties. This is an excellent article that exposes the vulnerabilities when communications systems are designed without built-in security from t…
An international cybercriminal operation responsible for millions of dollars in business email compromise (BEC) scams has finally been dismantled.
BlackBerry has published a report on a threat actor, Blind Eagle, also known as APT-C-36, which has been operating against targets in Ecuador and Colombia since at least 2019. Its most recent activity has been directed at organizations in Colo…