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Phishing
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Comment 8: Celebrate Cybersecurity Awareness Month!
By E.koltonski
You can even do it in a costume if you’d like. What we’re going to consider today is how to best protect yourself as a person, a professional, and a…
Ohio Employer Law Blog
Manchester City, one phishing email, and 114 reasons to train your employees
One email. One click. And, nearly a decade later, 114 guilty verdicts. The Manchester City financial scandal started with something far less sophisticated than disguised sponsorship agreements, hidden payments, or…
Internet, IT & e-Discovery
Thanks to AI more than 1 million phishing emails were created in 3 days!
By Peter Vogel
DarkReading.com reported that “Artificial intelligence (AI) is enabling threat actors to send unholy volumes of fraudulent emails, personalized to a degree that mass emailers of old couldn't have touched.” The…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Privacy Tip #499 – Scammers Using Big Brand Logos to Launch Fake Recruiting Schemes
Threat actors are spoofing big brand logos in recruiting scams to dupe individuals into believing they are working with real companies and to divulge their Google credentials. The scam was…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Threat Actors Using FIFA Spoofed Websites to Launch Attacks
The FBI and the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has issued a public service announcement warning the public about a surge in malicious spoofed websites related to the FIFA games.…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Privacy Tip #497 – LastPass Security Incident Raises Concern for Targeted Phishing Attacks
LastPass has confirmed that a security incident with a vendor, a third-party market intelligence platform “which integrates with our Salesforce and Gong systems” has compromised some customers information. As a…
Investigation Counsel
Scammers Target Canadians With Fake Milk Settlement Texts
Canadians are being targeted by phishing texts claiming they are eligible for a milk class-action settlement. The Canadian Anti-Fraud Centre says it has received reports of texts directing people to…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Stolen Hotel Reservation Data Used in Targeted Phishing Scams
A new report by Wired states that customer data from “more than 350 hotels around the world may have been accessed as part of realistic reservation-hijacking scams.” According to the…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Privacy Tip #494 – Signal Users Targeted with Phishing Scam
If you are a Signal user, be on the alert for a new phishing campaign that attempts to steal recovery keys used to access cloud backups. If successful, the attackers…
Data Privacy + Cybersecurity Insider
Phishing Now Top Method for Initial Unauthorized Network Access
According to Cisco Talus researchers, phishing is the primary method threat actors use to gain unauthorized access to networks, accounting for more than one-third of all incidents in the first…