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New analysis of the second quarter of this year makes it clear that individuals and organizations alike are at an increasing risk of web- and email-based scams.
Once upon a time, there was a small business owner named Alice, who fought to keep her retail establishment afloat amid the stormy seas of a global pandemic. Like many other merchants, she embraced the digital revolution and moved her store online. This allowed her to reach more customers and keep her business buoyant. Her store, Alice’s Wonderland, offered a vibrant range of local handicrafts that started garnering attention on social media. It was a tale of small business success.
Cybercriminals used the legitimacy of Salesforce’s email gateway to bypass security scanners and target Meta customers in an effort to steal Facebook credentials. One of the initial challenges any phishing attack has is to make it past security measures designed to scan and identify malicious emails. One such way is to misuse a legitimate well-known platform’s outbound sending of emails.
Call spoofing is when someone, usually a scammer or cybercriminal, disguises their caller ID information to hide who they really are. Call spoofing can also spoof the cybercriminal’s location to make it appear as if the call is coming from a specific location. With call spoofing, the caller will pretend to be someone they’re not to convince the individual to provide them with their personal information.
Ali Solehdin – The Banking Exchange In 2022 alone, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) distributed over $113.9 billion to nearly 22 million households across the United States. This figure represents an increase of over $5 billion from the year prior and nearly a $40 billion increase from 2020. Unfortunately, as the SNAP allocation has increased, criminals — from individuals to organized crime rings — have stolen an increasing share of these benefits.
Scammers are taking advantage of Twitter’s rebranding to “X,” according to Stephanie Adlam at Gridinsoft. A phishing campaign is targeting Twitter Blue users by telling them they need to transfer their subscription to X.
As the retirement countdown for the current version of PCI is now less than six months, a new standard for password length, complexity, and change frequency may create some risk. Valid credentials have become a very hot item, as threat actors realize the low risk and high value of simply becoming an Initial Access Broker (rather than performing an entire cyber attack themselves).
