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More Than 33,000 People in the UK Have Been Hacked Over the Past Year

Action Fraud, the UK’s national fraud and cyber crime reporting service, warns that more than 33,000 people have reported that their online accounts have been hacked over the past year.
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KnowBe4's Cybersecurity Experts Shine at Barnes & Noble in New York City

New York City's iconic Barnes & Noble on 5th Avenue recently featured the newly released books of two of KnowBe4's leading cybersecurity experts: Chief Human Risk Management Officer ...
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North Korean IT Worker Threat: 10 Critical Updates to Your Hiring Process

KnowBe4 was asked what changes were made in the hiring process after the North Korean (DPRK) fake IT worker discovery. Here is the summary and we strongly suggest you talk this over with ...
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FBI Warns Scammers Are Targeting Law Firms For Phony Debt Collections

The U.S. FBI warns that scammers are attempting to trick law firms into transferring money as part of a phony debt collection scheme.
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Phishing Attacks Are Abusing Legitimate Services to Avoid Detection

Microsoft warns that threat actors are abusing legitimate file-hosting services to launch phishing attacks. These attacks are more likely to bypass security filters and appear more ...
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North Korean Hackers Continue to Target Job Seekers

A North Korean threat actor is launching social engineering attacks against job seekers in the tech industry, according to researchers at Palo Alto Networks’ Unit 42.
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"Operation Kaerb" Takes Down Sophisticated Phishing-as-a-Service Platform “iServer”

A partnering of European and Latin American law enforcement agencies took down the group behind the mobile phone credential theft of 483,000 victims.
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Sextortion Scammers Attempt to Hit “Close to Home”

We live in a world where, despite the sharing of information online, we feel like those interactions will never reach home. But a new scam – covered on WTSP Tampa Bay’s Channel 10 news – ...
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Hurricane Deepfakes Flood Social Media

As the recent hurricane Helene caused major damage and as hurricane Milton has left a path of destruction across Florida, deepfakes are spreading misinformation on social media.
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Scammers Abuse Virtual Shopping Lists to Trick Walmart Customers

Threat actors are abusing virtual shopping lists to trick Walmart customers into transferring money or disclosing personal information, according to researchers at Malwarebytes. Links to ...
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Educate Your Users About Malicious SEO Poisoning Attacks

Since the beginning of computers, social engineering has been the number one way that computers and networks have been compromised. Social engineering is involved in 70% to 90% of all ...
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Zscaler: There are 200 Malicious Lookalike Domains for Every 1 Impersonated Brand

Analysis of typosquatting and brand impersonation activity across 500 of the most visited domains provides insight in to how these techniques come together to effectively deceive.
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Online Scams Are Shortening Their Cycles and Making More Money

New analysis of blockchain activity shows scammers are needing less time to obtain crypto payments and are seeing higher payoffs per scam.
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North Korean Hackers Target Software Developers With Phony Coding Tests

Researchers at ReversingLabs warn that North Korea’s Lazarus Group is targeting software developers with phony job interviews.
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SANS Releases Guide to Address Rise in Attacks on Manufacturing and Industrial Control Systems

Increased ransomware attacks on industrial control systems (ICS), mixed with general ICS insecurity found across the manufacturing sector, has given rise to a guide specifically ...
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Authorized Push Payment Fraud Responsible for Over Half of U.K. Frauds and Scams

Research from The Financial Ombudsman Service, a U.K. based organization dedicated to helping citizens with free financial advice, has found an increase in Authorized Pushed Payment (APP) ...
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Your Lawyers Are Increasingly Targeted by Phishing Attacks, Ransomware

Researchers at Bitdefender warn that law firms are high-value targets for ransomware gangs and other criminal threat actors. Attackers frequently use phishing to gain initial access to an ...
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Election-Themed Scams Are on the Rise

Researchers at Malwarebytes warn of a surge in election-themed scams ahead of November’s presidential election in the US. These attacks can be expected to increase as the election grows ...
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Manufacturing Sector Is the Latest Target of Advanced Credential Harvesting Attacks

A new attack runs slow and steady, focused on compromising large manufacturing companies using contextual social engineering to trick victims into giving up credentials.
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Phishing is Still the Top Initial Access Vector

Phishing remains a top initial access vector for threat actors, according to researchers at ReliaQuest. Phishing and other social engineering tactics can bypass security technologies by ...
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