How to Spot and Avoid Gift Card Scams The IRS and state troopers are always on the lookout for tax collectors. They can find you in your favorite coffee joint, waiting to pounce at any moment. Ever get a voicemail or text message from an agent aggressively warning that you owe taxes and the only
Best 5 Apps to Spy on a Mobile Phone Anywhere
Best 5 Apps to Spy on a Mobile Phone Anywhere Many of us have experienced on occasion trying to contact a loved one with lack of communication on their part. Whether the lack of response happens because they do not view the message, the ringer is silent, they may be engaged in another matter, no
5 Ways Businesses Can Avoid Phishing Scams Online
5 Ways Businesses Can Avoid Phishing Scams Online The concept of phishing is gaining immense popularity during the Covid-19 pandemic. People, by and large, are becoming victims of such fraudulent activities. Therefore, we have come up with 5 ways businesses can avoid getting trapped with emails that are meant to deteriorate their online identity. Based
How is Ransomware Spread in Mobile Phone Devices?
How is Ransomware Spread in Mobile Phone Devices? As an Android user, it is vital to keep in mind that ransomware doesn’t just attack your PC devices. Smartphones and tablets are becoming more and more prone to ransomware attacks. How is ransomware spread in mobile phones? Are there ways that you can protect your mobile
A Can of Phish Bait: from Surveys to Rule Changes to Your Boss’s Boss
Employees need to continue being wary of phishing scams as they begin to return to the office, according to Roger Kay at INKY. Kay describes several phishing templates that INKY has intercepted in recent months, including one that informed recipients that they needed to fill out a compliance form related to COVID-19 risks. “Reasonably well
Why Should You Be Using DMARC? 3 Billion Spoofed Emails are Being Sent Everyday
In a recent report from TechRadar, email is still the most popular form of malware distribution. Billions of emails that are spoofed are being sent everyday. Even though email is still the oldest form of online communication, it is still the go-to platform for cybercriminals to attempt to infiltrate. According to the report by Vailmail,
Scraped data of 500 million LinkedIn users being sold online, 2 million records leaked as proof
Days after a massive Facebook data leak made the headlines, it seems like we’re in for another one, this time involving LinkedIn. An archive containing data purportedly scraped from 500 million LinkedIn profiles has been put for sale on a popular hacker forum, with another 2 million records leaked as a proof-of-concept sample by the post author.
Chinese Have Likely Hacked Your Microsoft Exchange Email Server
Chinese Have Likely Hacked Your Microsoft Exchange Email Server. What if Chinese state-sponsored hackers have owned your OWA using several brand-new zero-day vulnerabilities?
On March 2, Microsoft released emergency security updates to plug four security holes in Exchange Server versions 2013 through 2019 that hackers were actively using to siphon email communications from Internet-facing systems running Exchange.
How Does Ransomware Spread Globally? Through Malware.
Ransomware is a type of malware that involves encrypting a company’s or individual’s useful data or blocking users from accessing their computer systems in exchange for a given amount of money. Cybercriminals are always on the look-out for creatives means for getting a hold of your data so that they can have them at ransom.
1 in 4 Business Email Compromise Attacks Use Lookalike Domains to Trick Victims
The latest Data on BEC scams shows how the bad guys are using a mix of Gmail accounts, increases in stolen wire transfers, and a shift to payroll diversions to trick you out of your money from email attacks.
Vendor Email Compromise is Officially A Big (Seven-Figure) Problem
While the Solarwinds “sunburst” attack brought to light the compromising of a vendor, Vendor Email Compromise has been around for some time and now seems to be going mainstream. We first mentioned Vendor Email Compromise (VEC) back in late 2019. This method of compromising an email account at one company purposely to use it to
Most Phishing Emails Are After Credentials
Most Phishing Emails Are After Credentials 57% of phishing emails in 2020 were designed for stealing credentials, according to Cofense’s most recent Annual State of Phishing Report. Meanwhile, just 12% of phishing attacks last year were used for delivering malware. Cofense believes this is because credential phishing emails are better at bypassing email security filters