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Online Extortion

With online scams on the rise, a group of scammers has managed to extort $50,000 in the form of bitcoins…

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Last updated September 25, 2021
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Scammers claim they installed a RAT on your system through the EternalBlue exploit. They are giving recipients 48 hours to…

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Last updated September 25, 2021
New spear-phishing technique involves gift card requests

Barracuda Networks noticed an uptick in social engineering emails in early October These use a gift card scam to make…

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Last updated September 25, 2021
us court

Apple has maintained a somewhat indifferent stance regarding the gift card scams, and people are now suing them for it.…

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Last updated September 25, 2021
ethereum

Cryptocurrency giveaways are still alive and well, getting aggressively promoted on Facebook. People are getting tricked by the fake comments…

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Last updated September 25, 2021
Scammers Are Hosting Fake Giveaways on Facebook To Steal Bitcoin

Scammers are impersonating companies on Facebook in an attempt to steal Bitcoin from users. Users are requested to send a…

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Last updated September 25, 2021
Elon Musk Twitter

Twitter seeks to combat cryptocurrency scammers by locking out all unverified accounts that attempt to change the display name to…

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Last updated September 25, 2021
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Many high-profile accounts on Twitter have been taken over by cryptocurrency scammers. Twitter says the hackers have probably accessed a…

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Last updated September 25, 2021
Bitcoin fading

Yet another wave of Bitcoin scams is rising on YouTube, and the platform has the same toneless response. Scammers have…

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Last updated September 25, 2021
Bitcoin fading

A new tricky campaign is using well-crafted bank spoofing apps to convince users to “invest” in crypto.The victims source the…

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Last updated September 25, 2021
scams warning

Scammers are looking to get a piece of the massive amounts spent on NFTs, and they’re using many tricks to…

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Last updated September 25, 2021
Nearly Half of All Business Email Attacks Request Money Transfers - Barracuda Networks

46.9% of BEC attacks request wire transfers 42.9% of attackers impersonate the CEO Business Email Compromise (BEC) attacks are becoming…

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Last updated September 25, 2021
Mail boxes

If you see your own name in your inbox, maybe you should be careful with that message. Agari warns that…

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Last updated September 25, 2021
email

BEC scams have grown into a multi-billion problem right now, and it’s unlikely to stop soon. Many organizations are taking…

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Last updated September 25, 2021
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FBI arrested 281 individuals and seized $3.7 million from an international network of BEC scammers. The scammers resided mostly in…

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Last updated September 25, 2021
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660 IT professionals of all levels from around the world give their take on email security. People generally feel more…

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Last updated September 25, 2021
toyota

Toyota Boshoku paid BEC scammers $37 million back in August and disclosed the incident now. The actors tricked a single…

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Last updated September 25, 2021
erie bridge

BEC scammers tricked the staff of the Town of Erie into changing the payment method for a construction project. The…

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Last updated September 25, 2021
"Phishing" printed on a keyboard key and fishing hook depicting phishing attack

A new phishing campaign is working impressively well and moves quickly, targeting company executives. The malicious actors are abusing Microsoft…

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Last updated September 25, 2021
bec scam

The Florentine Banker group has made a little over half a million GBP recently by tricking a company through a…

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Last updated September 25, 2021
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