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The High Stakes of Cybersecurity in Online Gambling

SecureWorld News

Fraud: Sophisticated scams, including bonus abuse and account takeovers, pose significant financial risks. Due to the prevalence of smartphones for these activities, they often target mobile users," Vishnubhotla said, offering the obvious and not-so-obvious vectors for criminals: What's obvious Phishing Scams : Phishing scams are common.

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Has Facebook leaked your phone number?

Malwarebytes

To be honest, between scraping vulnerabilities dating back to 2010 , and the Cambridge Analytica scandal , an old data breach is still a data breach, and you’re probably still going to need to pay attention to it. The first thing that comes to mind is a scam where people text you pretending to be a relative or dear friend.

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The weirdest security stories of 2022

Malwarebytes

There’s not many individual scams which can put “18 years and counting” on their resume. Of course, this was tied into a nonsensical scam about recovering lots of lost money should he be brought safely back. To be more precise, 2010, 2016, and now 2022 with a whole new astronaut to recover. spaaaaaaaaaace.

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New Cyberthreats for 2021

Adam Levin

The massive shift to work from home in response to the Covid-19 pandemic has meant a rush to secure a wider range of home devices and networks, and an instant spike in demand for training and services that protect employees in identifying attempted cyberattacks and scams. Economic stimulus checks were targeted.

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How $100M in Jobless Claims Went to Inmates

Krebs on Security

That’s a minor coup for a company launched in 2010 with the goal of helping e-commerce sites validate the identities of customers for the purposes of granting discounts for veterans, teachers, students, nurses and first responders. -based ID.me The amount of fraud we are fighting is truly staggering.”

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