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[Podcast] ChattinCyber's Unmasking Cyber Threats: The Rise of Spoofing + Phishing with Gideon Hazam

Nov 27, 2024 By Memcyco In Memcyco
Marc Schein is chattin’ with Memcyco's Gideon Hazam in ChattinCyber's latest episode. The conversation provides valuable insights into the challenges posed by spoofing and phishing attacks, the connection between the two, and the need for robust authentication measures to protect against these threats. The discussion highlights the importance of detecting attacks quickly, identifying at-risk users, and implementing effective protection measures to safeguard organizations and their customers.
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Three ATO Prevention Measures Ripe for Disruption This Past Fraud Awareness Week

Nov 25, 2024 By Julian Agudelo In Memcyco
If there’s one fraud statistic worth dwelling on as Fraud Awareness Week 2024 passes, it’s this – in the past year, scams of one type or other siphoned $1 trillion globally, according to the Global Scam Alliance’s State of Scams Report 2024. But this figure only scratches the surface of cybercrime’s total global cost, projected to reach $10.5 trillion in 2025, according to Cybersecurity Ventures, the world’s leading source of cyber research.
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6 Ways to Prevent Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) Attacks

Nov 20, 2024 By Zach Lakovics In Memcyco
In today’s cyber attack scene, data often takes a detour – straight through hackers’ systems. Unlike phishing or ransomware, which aim to trick users into handing over credentials or stealing data directly from systems, a Man-in-the-Middle (MitM) attack involves an unseen intermediary trying to fool each of two parties into thinking he’s the other one, capturing and/or altering information communicated between the parties, etc.
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The Dark Side of Loyalty: Combating $1 Billion Frequent Flyer Mile Scams in the Airline Industry

Nov 18, 2024 By Julian Agudelo In Memcyco
Frequent flyer programs have long been a symbol of loyalty and reward in the airline industry. These programs are intended to reward travelers with benefits and encourage ongoing customer relationships. However, a growing and pervasive threat is lurking beneath the allure of free miles and exclusive perks: Frequent Flyer Miles fraud. At the last credible count in 2018, there were over 30 trillion unspent miles in circulation, according to McKinsey.
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The InfoSec Guide to Dark Web Monitoring

Nov 13, 2024 By Eran Tsur In Memcyco
Your customers’ stolen data could be for sale right now – and you might not even know it. The dark web is a thriving, shadowy marketplace where fraudsters trade credit card numbers, account details, session cookies, and even entire identities. On average, there were more than 2.5 million daily visitors to the dark web in 2023, showcasing the scale of this underground economy.
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How Ad Fraud Detection is Saving Money for Customers and Online Retailers

Nov 6, 2024 By Eran Tsur In Memcyco
If you’ve ever run an online ad campaign, be it through an advertising agency or in-house, there’s a very high chance that you, too, have fallen victim to undetected ad fraud. It’s not pleasant to hear, but your ad dollars often find their way into the pockets of cyber crooks. The costs of ad fraud are astronomical and continue to grow year after year. In Q1 of 2024, ad networks experienced an 18% click fraud rate across desktop web (26%), mobile web (15%), and mobile in-app (10%).
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Holiday Scam Season: Turning Vulnerabilities into Long-Term Resilience

Nov 1, 2024 By Julian Agudelo In Memcyco
More transactions, less vigilant consumers, and countless digital impersonators ready to exploit them – for scam-targeted industries and cyber teams, the holiday season is a full-spectrum stress test. Those who pass with flying colors have likely adopted key reinforcements that adapt posture for the era of off-the-shelf social engineering scams assisted by AI. Those that don’t are likely still reliant on outdated solutions and customer education.
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QRishing Is Taking Phishing Offline: Here's How to Protect Customer Data

Oct 30, 2024 By Arthur Zavalkovsky In Memcyco
Imagine scanning a QR code to pay for parking or to buy a new jacket, only to realize you handed over credentials or card data to fraudsters. Yes – phishing is now also an offline phenomena, expanding its reach into real-world spaces via QR codes. Known as ‘QRishing’, this increasingly common attack exploits growing reliance on QR codes in both online and everyday physical environments, exploiting users’ lack of vigilance.
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Top 5 Logistics and Postal Scams of 2024

Oct 21, 2024 By Joanna Mack In Memcyco
From groceries to gadgets, everything can be delivered to your doorstep these days with just a few clicks. In this e-commerce world, logistics and postal companies have become critical players in the retail sector, with brand names that everyone recognizes. But this has also made them goldmines of PII that attackers would do anything to get their hands on.
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The Mobile Phishing Boom and How to Avoid It

Oct 11, 2024 By Arthur Zavalkovsky In Memcyco
As mobile technology becomes integral to day-to-day life, fraudsters are refining phishing techniques to exploit vulnerabilities in mobile browsing. According to Zimperium’s 2024 zLabs Global Mobile Threat report, 82% of phishing sites specifically targeted mobile devices in 2023. To protect customer data, enterprises need to counter-adapt.
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