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The $43 billion Business Email Compromise threat

May 5, 2022 0 Comments BEC, business email compromise, CEO, ceo fraud, cfo, cfo fraud, cryptocurrency, email, fake, fraud, funds, phish, scams, wire transfer

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Thu, 05 May 2022 15:44:47 +0000

We take a look at the latest FBI report on Business Email Compromise which reveals $43 billion in losses from 2016 to 2021.

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Extortion scheme impersonates government officials, law enforcement

March 10, 2022 0 Comments data theft, erick kron, extortion, FBI, fbi psa, fraud, psa, scams, Social engineering

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Thu, 10 Mar 2022 13:31:14 +0000

The FBI has warned the public about a new fraud scheme that involves impersonating law enforcement and government personnel in order to steal money and data.

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Vulnerable Exchange server hit by Squirrelwaffle and financial fraud

February 15, 2022 0 Comments email security, exchange vulnerability, featured, fraud, malspam, proxylogon, proxyshell, security operations, squirrelwaffle

Credit to Author: Tilly Travers| Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 13:00:59 +0000

While Squirrelwaffle leveraged Exchange to spread malspam through hijacked email threads, one thread was spirited away by attackers to trick the target into a money transfer

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FBI warns of bogus job postings on recruitment sites

February 4, 2022 0 Comments bogus, fake, FBI, fraud, hire, job, scams

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 04 Feb 2022 13:09:36 +0000

The FBI has issued a warning about a scheme that robs nearly $3,000 per victim. We see what the scammers are up to.

Categories: Scams

Tags: bogus fake fbi fraud hire job

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Child identity theft, part 1: On familiar fraud

March 17, 2020 0 Comments Awareness, child identity fraud, child identity theft, cyberbullying, familiar fraud, fraud, id theft, identity theft, personally identifiable information, PII

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2020 20:17:19 +0000

In this two-part series on child identity theft, we shed light on the growing problem of familiar fraud, where those entrusted with a minor’s information are the very ones who abuse it.

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Awareness

Tags: child identity fraud child identity theft cyberbullying familiar fraud fraud ID theft identity theft personally identifiable information PII

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FTC warns VoIP providers that help robocallers: we can and will sue

February 3, 2020 0 Comments caller id, crackdown, do not call registry, Federal Trade Commission, fraud, FTC, Law & order, robocallers, robocalls, scammers, security threats, service providers, spoofing, voip

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 12:21:32 +0000

It put 19 internet-calling companies on notice that helping illegal robocalls is illegal. It has sued before, and it can do it again.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/WgDkr2jGNg4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Fraudsters posed as art dealer, bilked museum for millions

February 3, 2020 0 Comments art, BEC, BEC scams, email spoofing, fraud, john constable, Law & order, painting, rijksmuseum twenthe, simon c. dickinson ltd., spoofed email

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 11:26:24 +0000

Scammers got away with a $3.1m BEC heist, art dealer and museum blame each other, and ownership of a valuable landscape is up in the air.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/vWiUkpnODiM” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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Government spyware company spied on hundreds of innocent people

January 30, 2020 0 Comments ‘ndrangheta, Android, black team, data loss, employee surveillance, employees, esurv, fraud, Government security, Law & order, malware, Mobile, Privacy, salvatore ansani, security threats, unauthorized access, virus scans

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2020 11:30:55 +0000

eSurv execs have been charged with fraud, unauthorized access to a computer system, illicit interception and illicit data processing.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/08noJbBMayg” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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China and US top user data requests in Apple transparency report

January 21, 2020 0 Comments Apple, apple transparency report, australia, brazil, data loss, fraud, iPhone, Law & order, phishing, Privacy, transparency report, transparency reports, US, user data

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 21 Jan 2020 11:53:00 +0000

Most of the US and China’s requests had to do with investigations into fraud, suspected account access and phishing.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/AMKPqWhR4n0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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S2 Ep22: Word doc stops fraud, bye bye Python 2, latest from the ransomware swamp – Naked Security Podcast

January 9, 2020 0 Comments fraud, Naked Security Podcast, Podcast, python, Ransomware

Credit to Author: Alice Duckett| Date: Thu, 09 Jan 2020 12:25:50 +0000

We discuss the latest cybersecurity news and advice in our latest podcast. Listen now!<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/dxdFXkYo_F0″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>