Every week we report on the top scams making headlines in the cybersecurity world. Share with your users so they stay up to date on what to watch out for!
And again—it is enough to make you nauseous—low-life scum on the internet is using a tragedy and try to scam money out of people that want to help the victims. The Nevada Attorney ...
Hurricane Harvey hit hard and especially Houston, TX got badly flooded. The death toll is rising and you can also count on low-life cyber-scum exploiting this disaster.
Cybercriminals are increasingly trying to circumvent your spam filters and instead are targeting your users directly through their smartphone with smishing attacks, which are hard to ...
According to the NY Daily News, State Supreme Court Justice Lori Sattler was in the process of selling her apartment and buying another, when she received an email that seemed like it was ...
Gizmodo reported on a blog post by IT Security company UpGuard which revealed the largest US voter data leak to date. Political data gathered on more than 198 million US citizens was ...
Online reporter Doug Olenick at SC Media was the first to point to a press release from the NY State Department of Motor Vehicles warning about a phishing scam where New York drivers are ...
You probably know that the Eastern European cyber mafia does their beta testing in the U.K., before they "export" their criminal campaigns to America. Here is a heads-up of a social ...
Steven Weisman, Esq. warned against this scam and wrote March 5th: "Mystery shoppers are people hired to shop at a particular store and report on the shopping experience for purposes of ...
I have talked about CEO fraud here many times — e-mail attacks spoofing the boss and social engineering a high-risk employee into wiring funds to a bank account controlled by the bad ...
It's unbelievable, but the new tax season is around the corner and the bad guys are already at it. This is a two-phase phishing scam of the week you need to watch out for: PHASE 1: ...
Wednesday Jan 4th, the SANS Internet Storm Center warned about an active phishing campaign that has malicious PDF attachments in a new scam to steal email credentials. The SANS bulletin ...
The shoe retailer Foot Locker Inc. has three iPhone apps. But that did not stop an entity calling itself Footlocke Sports Co., Ltd. from offering 16 shoe and clothing apps in the App ...
Malwarebytes Researcher Jerome Segura reported on a new Tech Support scam that uses a known HTML5 bug to freeze the system and trick people to call a fake support number. Note, it does ...
Symantec warns that tech support scams are getting more sophisticated by the month: "These scams remain one of the major and evolving forces in the computer security landscape. Between ...
The divorce between Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie has been used by the bad guys for a "celebrity death hoax" which unfortunately is high-grade click bait. It's the most recent one to hit ...
There is a new insidious IRS scam that you need to warn your employees, friends and family about, and inform your HR department to start with. Seasoned internet criminals are sending ...
Most scams on the internet are "short con" scams, compare them to hit & run. However, "long con" scams have started to show up that can take a few months to finally steal the money. ...
We spotted an unusual phishing email which revealed a new scam your users will soon find in their inbox. Time to inoculate them before it becomes a problem! Many online service providers ...
KnowBe4's Templates Mistress Katie has added two new categories to the System Templates: 1) SCAM OF THE WEEK - this will act as an optional weekly newsletter for you to send to your ...
Bad guys are abusing the Social Security Administration's (SSA) online service called My SocialSecurity Account in two ways: A phishing scam which encourages employees to create an ...
