Scammers Will Take Advantage of New IRS Rules
New IRS requirements will soon be used as phishbait, according to Gene Marks, owner of Marks Group PC and a columnist for the Guardian.
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New IRS requirements will soon be used as phishbait, according to Gene Marks, owner of Marks Group PC and a columnist for the Guardian.
It’s easy to forget, when a hybrid war like the one currently raging in Ukraine is occupying so much attention, that ordinary criminal lowlifes continue to seek victims, and the war only ...
Used to disguise malicious file extensions, this legacy functionality is being repurposed in attacks to obfuscate attachment types and steal credentials in an impressive way.
This banking trojan-turned-information-stealer has been around for nearly 15 years. But its latest iteration – seen even in the past few weeks – has stepped up in its’ ability to act ...
The key to really good cybersecurity is to concentrate on just 4 things. Master them first before you begin to try and do the other hundreds of things that everyone else is going to tell ...
Researchers at Norton LifeLock have found that web trackers are collecting much more information about users’ browsing activity than had previously been believed. Such trackers can follow ...
Sixty-five percent of organizations report that their employees have been contacted by ransomware attackers in an attempt to recruit insider threats, according to researchers at Pulse and ...
Younger and older people differ in their susceptibility to different types of social engineering attacks, according to researchers at Avast. Younger people tend to fall for scams ...
Using mailed out “BadUSB” drives as the initial attack vector, cybercriminals are attempting to infiltrate sensitive networks and infect them with BlackMatter or REvil ransomware strains.
A sophisticated China-aligned threat actor is using social engineering to carry out cyberespionage and financially motivated attacks, according to researchers at Trend Micro.
A North Korean threat actor being called “BlueNoroff,” a subunit of Pyongyang’s Lazarus Group, has been targeting cryptocurrency startups with financially motivated attacks, researchers ...
Video game maker Electronic Arts (EA) has stated that around fifty high-profile accounts for the soccer game FIFA 22 were hacked after attackers manipulated the company’s customer service ...
A business email compromise attack at Illinois’s Office of the Special Deputy Receiver led to a loss of $6.85 million, Ray Long at the Chicago Tribune reports. Long describes the Office ...
A North Korean threat actor is targeting users in Russia with a New Year’s Eve-themed phony screensaver file, the Record reports. Researchers at Cluster25 spotted the activity, and say ...
Social engineering isn’t concerned with either novelty or elegance. All that matters is whether it works. ESET’s Jake Moore described a case in point for We Live Security: all someone ...
I love that KnowBe4’s customers are among the most knowledgeable and educated people in the world in avoiding phishing scams. KnowBe4’s products help its customers to educate and test ...
With loved ones potentially a half a world away, scammers prey on families with scams that offer to assist with communication, care packages, leave, and more.
I love that KnowBe4’s customers are among the most knowledgeable and educated people in the world in avoiding phishing scams. KnowBe4’s products help its customers to educate and test ...
Spam calls in the US spiked in October, according to Truecaller’s annual Global Spam Report. The report observed that Truecaller customers in the US received 3,115,861 spam calls in ...
A US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) data spotlight has found that people in the US lost $148 million to gift-card-related scams in the first nine months of 2021. The spotlight also found ...
