Paypal – PossibleThreat Articles

Scammers are using invoices sent through PayPal.com to trick recipients into calling a number to dispute a pending charge. The missives — which come from Paypal.com and include a link at Paypal.com that displays an invoice for the supposed transaction — state that the user’s account is about to be charged hundreds of dollars. Recipients who call the supplied toll-free number to contest the transaction are soon asked to download software that lets the scammers assume remote control over their computer.

MalwareBytes Security

A week in security (July 18 – July 24)

July 25, 2022 0 Comments A week in security, Compliance, cryptocurrency, extortionists, facebook, Google, gps, Paypal, ring, roblox, Wordpress

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 25 Jul 2022 08:44:00 +0000

The most important and interesting computer security stories from the last week.

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PayPal phishing campaign goes after more than just your login credentials

July 19, 2022 0 Comments Akamai, akamai security research, Paypal, paypal phishing, phishing, phishing kit, Social engineering

Credit to Author: Jovi Umawing| Date: Tue, 19 Jul 2022 13:14:05 +0000

Scammers have created a PayPal phishing campaign that extensively asks for sensitive information, including government IDs and headshot photos.

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Insider Threat: Employees indicted for stealing $88 million of license keys

July 4, 2022 0 Comments alias chad johnson, alias joe brown, alias justin albaum, avaya, avaya cloud office, b2b, brad pearce, Cybercrime, dusti pearce, ip office, jason hines, Paypal, piracy, raymond bradley pearce, software piracy

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 04 Jul 2022 17:30:13 +0000

Avaya, a communications company for SMBs, was left in the dark for years as insiders stole and sold its license keys.

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Independent Krebs Security

How Phishers Are Slinking Their Links Into LinkedIn

February 3, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, amazon, avanan, check point, fortinet, irs, jeremy fuchs, Latest Warnings, LinkedIn, Microsoft, Paypal, slinks, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2022 18:49:38 +0000

If you received a link to LinkedIn.com via email, SMS or instant message, would you click it? Spammers, phishers and other ne’er-do-wells are hoping you will, because they’ve long taken advantage of a marketing feature on the business networking site which lets them create a LinkedIn.com link that bounces your browser to other websites, such as phishing pages that mimic top online brands (but chiefly Linkedin’s parent firm Microsoft).

Security Sophos

Facebook’s Libra cryptocurrency loses all but one payment company

October 15, 2019 0 Comments cryptocurrency, ebay, facebook, financial stability board, FSB, g20, g7, global stablecoin, imf, international monetary fund, Law & order, libra, libra association, mastercard, Paypal, stablecoin, stablecoins, visa

Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 12:00:01 +0000

Gone: Mastercard, Visa, PayPal, eBay, Stripe, Mercado Pago. Of six payments firms first involved in Libra, just one, PayU, remains.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/7AWGkl-XHVQ” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

Security Sophos

EFF and Mozilla scold Venmo over app’s privacy failings

September 4, 2019 0 Comments data loss, EFF, financial data, Mozilla, Mozilla Foundation, Payment apps, Paypal, Privacy, security threats, Social networks, Venmo

Credit to Author: John E Dunn| Date: Wed, 04 Sep 2019 09:34:26 +0000

The tense stand-off between privacy campaigners and the popular mobile payment app Venmo has taken another turn for the worse.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/dIdmnOeegug” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>

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