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Facebook-Themed Scam Aims to Steal Your Credentials

Jul 14, 2022 4:27:03 PM By Stu Sjouwerman
A creative mix of phishing emails, solid social engineering, use of Facebook Messenger, brand and site impersonation, and a sense of urgency all add up to a believable attack.
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Phishing Attack Steals $8 Million Worth of Cryptocurrency

Jul 13, 2022 9:09:08 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Scammers stole $8 million worth of Ethereum from users of the Uniswap cryptocurrency exchange, according to Sujith Somraaj at Decrypt. Notably, the attackers relied purely on social ...
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KnowBe4’s 2022 Phishing By Industry Benchmarking Report Reveals that 32.4% of Untrained End Users Will Fail a Phishing Test

Jul 13, 2022 7:00:00 AM By Joanna Huisman
Once again, the human layer continues to be the most desirable attack vector for cybercriminals. 2022 marks the 5th year KnowBe4 has analyzed hundreds of millions of elements of data in ...
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Callback Malware Campaigns Impersonate CrowdStrike and Other Cybersecurity Companies

Jul 11, 2022 3:26:04 PM By Stu Sjouwerman
CrowdStrike sent the following Tech Alert to their customers
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[Scam of the Week] Amazon Prime Day or Amazon Crime Day? Don’t Fall Victim to Phishing

Jul 8, 2022 2:36:20 PM By Stu Sjouwerman
As Amazon Prime Day approaches, Checkpoint research is sending a warning that Amazon Prime Day scams will ramp up very soon.
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[Eye Opener] Lessons Learned from a Big Hotel's Recent Data Breach Caused By Social Engineering

Jul 8, 2022 8:55:07 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
This week Marriott International, one of the largest hotel chains, suffered their second data breach of 2022. The attack by a group named 'Group with No Name' (GNN) took place in early ...
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New WhatsApp Scam Uses Call Forwarding Social Engineering to Hijack Accounts

Jul 7, 2022 9:01:00 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
This is a great example of how even the simplest of social engineering tactics can be used as the first step in a likely-larger scam. In a recent short post on LinkedIn, Rahul Sasi, CEO ...
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[Heads Up] Online Fraud Now Sky-high With 'Tinder Swindler' Romance Scams Costing Hundreds of Millions

Jun 30, 2022 10:19:27 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
A new article in Bloomberg focused on new sky-high online fraud numbers, they are horrendous. Here is a short summary and I recommend you read the whole article.
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Wars and Lechery, Nothing Else Holds Fashion for Phishing Attacks

Jun 29, 2022 10:03:52 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Shakespeare said it first, and things haven’t changed: suffering and desire continue to drive victims to the social engineers. Researchers at Bitdefender have observed a phishing campaign ...
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Amazon Prime Day 2022 is Coming: Here are Quick Cybersecurity Tips to Help You Stay Safe

Jun 23, 2022 1:56:47 PM By Erich Kron
Amazon Prime Days this year are July 12 - 13th 2022. As a result, cybercriminals are taking every step to capitalize on the holiday with new phishing attacks. I have been getting asked ...
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Vendor Impersonation Competing with CEO Fraud

Jun 23, 2022 9:09:21 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Researchers at Abnormal Security have observed an increase in vendor impersonation in business email compromise (BEC) attacks.
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FBI Warns of Fraudsters on LinkedIn

Jun 21, 2022 9:15:06 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
The US FBI has warned that scammers on LinkedIn are a “significant threat,” CNBC reports. Sean Ragan, the FBI’s special agent in charge of the San Francisco and Sacramento field offices, ...
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Smishing Text Scams Have Doubled in the Last Three Years

Jun 20, 2022 10:12:52 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
New data shows a rise in the use of text messages as an effective vehicle to connect with potential victims for social engineering scams as Americans increase their preference of the ...
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New PDF-Based Phishing Attack Demonstrates that Office Docs Aren’t Passé – They are Just Obfuscated!

Jun 20, 2022 10:12:11 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Security researchers have discovered a cunning PDF-based phishing attack that leverages social engineering and PDF prompt specifics to trick users into opening malicious Office docs.
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Over 2000 Social Engineering Scammers Arrested in Multi-Country Crackdown on Fraud, BEC, and Money Laundering

Jun 20, 2022 10:12:04 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Thousands of members of cybercriminal groups were arrested in a sting that lasted 2 months and involved coordinated efforts of the law enforcement departments of 76 countries.
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Vishing Attacks Increase 550% Over Last Year as the Financial Sector Continues to be a Primary Target

Jun 20, 2022 10:11:58 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Cybercriminals are continuing to bypass the use of malware in favor of response-based and credential-centric social engineering attacks, according to new data from Agari and PhishLabs.
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A Closer Look at HR Scams: Does Niceness Have a Downside?

Jun 16, 2022 8:43:51 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Threat actors are targeting HR employees who are looking to hire new people, according to Lisa Vaas at Contrast Security. As part of their job, HR employees frequently interact with ...
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Spear Phishing Campaign Targets Former Israeli Officials

Jun 15, 2022 9:20:03 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
An Iranian threat actor is conducting a spear phishing operation against Israeli officials, according to researchers at Check Point. The targets have included the former Foreign Minister ...
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Monkeypox Scams Continue to Increase

Jun 14, 2022 9:19:28 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
Attackers are taking advantage of the current news about monkeypox to trick people into clicking on malicious links, Pickr reports. Researchers at Mimecast have spotted a phishing ...
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FTC Warns that Scammers are Turning to Cryptocurrencies

Jun 7, 2022 8:44:38 AM By Stu Sjouwerman
The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has warned that people have reported losing over $1 billion in crypto to scams since the beginning of 2021. The vast majority of these losses were ...
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