Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

The expert Bob Diachenko has discovered an unsecured Elasticsearch install belonging to the security firm Keepnet Labs that contained 5 billion records of data leaked in previous incidents that took place between 2012 and 2019. ” wrote Security Discovery’s researcher Bob Diachenko. Adobe, Last.

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SC Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

A pair of related phishing campaigns this year took the unusual step of intentionally avoiding malicious links or attachments in its emails – a sign that threat actors may recognize the need to come up with new tactics. Here, workers prepare a presentation the day before the CeBIT 2012 technology trade fair.

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Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

5 Tips to Help Avoid Charity Scams This Giving Tuesday IdentityIQ Giving Tuesday is a day to extend a helping hand, support charitable causes, and share kindness with those in need. However, despite the noble intention of Giving Tuesday, there is an alarming concern that continues to grow – the presence of Giving Tuesday scams.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In just a year, they were able to steal a total of 11.72M USD (10M EUR) from hundreds of victims of phishing attacks and other fraudulent activities such as SIM swapping (also known as SIMjacking ), business email compromise (BEC) , and money muling. Cyber mafia” is not an unknown concept in the cybersecurity world.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Attacks on bank customers: The decline of Android Trojans and the triumph of phishing. This trend aimed at reducing threats from banking Trojans for PCs has been continuing in Russia since 2012. Using web phishing, criminals have managed to steal $3.7 On average, approximately $15 are stolen in each phishing attack.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

Somewhat quietly since about 2012 or so, nation states in that region, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, commenced a quiet surge to the forefront of implementing comprehensive cybersecurity regulations. And yet, it remains true today that most folks do not take that responsibility seriously enough.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Inova has been operating since 2012 and has handled thousands of cases since then. Although your data may not have been found by anyone else, in case any ill-intentioned hacker discovered it, here are some of the risks people exposed could face: Phishing Scams and Malware.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It is estimated that throughout the 2012 holiday season, online shoppers will spend over $54 billion, an increase of almost 17% from last year. Beware of unsolicited emails that look like a coupon or promotion from a company; they could be a phishing scam that attempts to steal your credit card information. 25% of U.S.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It was easy to buy hundreds of millions of email addresses, pack them with phishing messages, and attach a nasty malware payload. And even if most users didn’t fall for the scam, even a small percentage of hundreds of millions was enough to make the attacks very lucrative for criminals. Email and spam were by far the most popular.

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Centraleyes

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Compare that to 2012 when the UAE ranked fifth in the Global Cybersecurity Index. It serves as a warning to regularly backup company data and train every employee on how to identify phishing and social engineering attacks. Even so, the UAE saw 166,667 victims of cybercrime who lost a combined US$746 million.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

In March 2014, hackers used login information leaked by eBay employees to access sensitive user data of 145 million customers , putting these users at risk of identity theft, password theft and phishing risks. According to the 2016 Verizon Data Breach Investigations Report , 13% of those tested clicked on the attachment of a phishing email.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

For example, an attacker could log in to a victim’s Facebook account and post a phishing link or spread spam. This is a typical example of the kind of old-school text-message scams that were popular in 2011 and 2012. Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.ado(4.02%) ranked sixth in the TOP 20 list of mobile malicious programs.

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Troy Hunt

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

As I started delving back through my own writing over the years, the picture became much clearer and it really crystallised just this week after I inadvertently landed on a nasty phishing site. In the end I broke it down into 3 Ps: padlocks, phishing and privacy. Here's the value proposition of a VPN in the modern era: 1.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2018

A story published here on July 12 about a new sextortion-based phishing scheme that invokes a real password used by each recipient has become the most-read piece on KrebsOnSecurity since this site launched in 2009. There are several interesting takeaways from this phishing campaign.

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