SecureWorld News

JUNE 15, 2021

Phishing attacks hit an all-time high earlier this year, and your end-users should certainly be trained on how to identify them. The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has released its Phishing Activity Trends Report, 1st Quarter 2021 , which dives into phishing attacks and other identity theft techniques.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

While initially popularized in entertainment and satire, cybercriminals now weaponize this technology for fraud, identity theft, and corporate deception. Traditional phishing attacks rely on deceptive emails, but deepfakes have taken impersonation to a new level by creating convincing audio and video forgeries.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2021

Phishing is today’s most dangerous cyberattack. Google noted a more than 600% spike in phishing attacks in 2020 compared to 2019 with a total of 2,145,013 phishing sites registered as of January 17, 2021, up from 1,690,000 on Jan 19, 2020. Phishing doesn’t discriminate. So did the 2020 Twitter hack.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

This was revealed in a 2022 Consumer Impact report released by Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) on Tuesday this week. Astonishingly, most of the information steals cases where or are yet to be solved and surged to 55% from 30% between 2020 to 2021. It might sound weird!

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 3, 2021

It’s still entirely too easy to steal someone’s credentials, which is why identity theft continues to be a primary cause of data breaches. It’s time to take a closer look at alternative identity management and authentication strategies. Cyberattacks designed to steal identity are on the rise.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 19, 2023

A particularly nasty slice of phishing, scamming, and social engineering is responsible for DoorDash drivers losing a group total of around $950k. A 21 year old man named David Smith, from Connecticut, allegedly figured out a way to extract large quantities of cash from drivers with a scam stretching back to 2020.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 24, 2021

Fraud losses climbed to $56 billion in 2020 and identity fraud scams accounted for a staggering $43 billion of that cost, according to a new report. As consumers relied increasingly on digital payment products during 2020, identity fraud scams kept pace with this shift in behavior, the report reveals.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Short-lived phishing sites often offered to see the premieres before the eagerly awaited movie or television show was scheduled to hit the screen. At the beginning of that year, we still observed phishing attacks that used the themes of infection and prevention as the bait.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 4, 2021

As we start a hopefully better 2021, we are taking a look back at the most searched and visited topics on the IdentityIQ blog during 2020. What is Phishing? Every day the experts at IdentityIQ services study the changes in credit monitoring and follow the trends in identity theft. This past year has been unlike any other.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

” Credential stuffing attacks involve botnets to try stolen login credentials usually obtained through phishing attacks and data breaches. The exposed data could expose users to multiple malicious activities, including identity theft & fraud, scams, phishing and malware attacks, and of course account abuse.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 12, 2022

A recent study from Javelin Strategy & Research found that identity fraud losses totaled $56 billion in 2020, and that such incidents are only becoming more commonplace. The post Three Best Practices to Prevent Identity Fraud appeared first on BlackCloak | Protect Your Digital Life™.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2021

Leak data could be abused by threat actors to carry out malicious activities, such as phishing/spear-phishing attacks, identity theft, and scams. Be vigilant on potential phishing messages that ask you to provide information. Enable two-factor authentication (2FA) on all your online accounts.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

The report also stated that the FBI received more than 1,600 SIM swap complaints in 2021, dramatically up from 320 from 2018 to 2020. Here are tips to help prevent these types of phishing attacks and stay safe. Minimizing SIM Swapping Attacks. Contact your financial institutions and request an alert for suspicious transactions.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 28, 2020

On 2 November 2020 vpnMentor experts discovered that the 21 Buttons app was using a misconfigured AWS bucket that has exposed the data of hundreds of influencers. 2020 Dates vendors contacted: 5th Nov., 2020 Dates Amazon Contacted: 10th Nov., 2020 Date of Response: 22nd Dec.

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Security Affairs

MAY 13, 2020

Magellan Health Inc announced it was the victim of a ransomware attack that took place on April 11, 2020, the company also confirmed that hackers have stolen personal information from one of its corporate servers. “On April 11, 2020, Magellan discovered it was targeted by a ransomware attack. Magellan Health Inc.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 6, 2021

However, security experts suggest it is better to change the password of an online account, respectively, to avoid any identity theft or phishing attacks in the future. As of Feb’2020, Twitch reportedly had over 3 million broadcasters on a monthly note, out of which 15 million were active daily.

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2020

The database was discovered by the Safety Detectives team of experts lead by the researcher Anurag Sen , it was over 8TB, the archive also included data of accounts registered between February and April 2020, as well as logs of accesses in the same period. billion records.” ” reads the post published by the researchers.

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Hot for Security

MAY 17, 2021

Threat actors are again targeting taxpayers as they prepare their returns in a new phishing campaign that seeks to infect recipients’ machines with Remote Access Trojans. The subject line reads “Account Ledger for 2020-2021,” and the email body encourages recipients to verify the attachment.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

And like everything else in 2020, these next few weeks promise to be a disaster. There’s a chance the unsolicited offer in your inbox is a “ phishing ” scheme. Phishing schemes don’t only travel by way of email. Identity thieves go through garbage in the hopes of obtaining payment or personal information.

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Webroot

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Even strong security can’t prevent an account from being hacked if account credentials are stolen in a phishing attack, one of the most common causes of identity theft. In 2020, phishing scams spiked by 510 percent between January and February alone. Web-borne malware remains widespread.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The company attempted to downplay the security breach, according to a notice of data incident sent to the Montana Attorney General’s office, EWA bacame aware of a recent phishing incident that had some limited impact on EWA email accounts on August 2, 2021. The experts at the company believe that the attackers attempted wire fraud.

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Hot for Security

MAY 20, 2021

In that time, the IC3 has developed into a go-to platform for victims of fraud, online scams, identity theft, and other cyber-related crimes that have inflicted losses of over $10 billion. The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has been providing the public with reliable cybercrime reporting systems for 20 years.

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Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In a notice to affected patients, the hospital disclosed that an unauthorized person accessed employee emails between June 2020 and January 2021 but was unable to say the level to which the emails were viewed. You can also get compensated for losses related to identity theft through identity theft insurance coverage.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Potentially affected Individuals are recommended to remain vigilant against fraudulent activities such as identity theft and scam attempts. In 2020, the City disclosed a significant email breach , that resulted from a successful phishing attack on an employee.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 22, 2021

Here is the report's opening paragraph: "In 2020, while the American public was focused on protecting our families from a global pandemic and helping others in need, cyber criminals took advantage of an opportunity to profit from our dependence on technology to go on an Internet crime spree. Business Email Compromise 2020.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

” The experts revealed that the unsecured S3 bucket contained over 180,000 records from August 2020 alone. The availability of such kind of data could expose hotel guests to a wide range of malicious activities, including identity theft, phishing attacks, scams, malware attacks, and reservation takeover.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2021

” , we mentioned that a cybercriminal could attack their victim by using targeted phishing e-mails to obtain access to the victim’s data. Despite their seemingly primitive simplicity, e-mail phishing and other malicious attacks still serve as some of the main tools used by cybercriminals to gather corporate data.

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Security Affairs

JULY 21, 2021

The leak comes more than four months after Humana, the third-largest health insurance company in the US, notified 65,000 of its health plan members about a security breach where “a subcontractor’s employee disclosed medical records to unauthorized individuals” between October 12, 2020, and December 16, 2020.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

“As of July 11th, 2020, our cybersecurity team has confirmed that an unauthorized third party accessed certain user data through a security breach at a LiveAuctioneers data processing partner that occurred on June 19, 2020.” ” reads the data breach notification published by the company. million LiveAuctioneers users.”

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

“During the 2020 holiday shopping season, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received over 17,000 complaints regarding the non-delivery of goods, resulting in losses over $53 million,” reads a public service announcement published by the FBI. Online surveys designed to steal personal information.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

Consider that the average cost for a ransomware attack against a business is about $4,400, and your run of the mill phishing incident weighs in at a much less hefty $500. So Isn’t BEC Just Another Form of Phishing? Despite these efforts, losses from BEC scams are expected to continue to rise in 2020.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2024

District Court in Seattle to three years in prison and more than $5 million in restitution for conspiracy to commit wire fraud and aggravated identity theft. Raoult and two other co-conspirators were charged with having hacked into protected computers of corporate entities and for the theft of stolen proprietary information.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 19, 2021

According to the report , in 2020 the IC3 received 19,369 business email compromise (BEC) / email account compromise (EAC) complaints “with adjusted losses of over $1.8 million in 2020. Losses registered in 2020 totaled $4.2 On the ransomware front, the IC3 received 2,474 complaints with adjusted losses of over $29.1

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Webroot

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

of consumer PCs in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and South America were infected during 2020. With lightning-fast scans, this line of defense offers always-on protection to safeguard your identity. Our real-time anti-phishing also blocks bad sites. In a word, yes. Looking to protect more than one device? We’ve got you covered.

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Hot for Security

APRIL 5, 2021

In 2020, customers who had already endured the fallout from the breach were targeted once again, in new blackmail campaigns. By pairing the leaked data with publicly exposed information, cybercriminals can deploy phishing schemes that can lead to account takeover, identity theft and fraud.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

The European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA) just published its Threat Landscape 2020 report. Identity Theft. Physical Manipulation, Damage, Theft and Loss. Now, let's look at some additional findings in the 2020 Threat Landscape study. More on these things in a minute. Web-based Attacks. Data Breach.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Most of the tax-related attacks follow a few tried and true methods: A phishing email or scam call from someone purporting to be from the IRS, or an accountant offering to help you get a big refund. Phishing sites tend not to hang around that long, so while the domain’s history is certainly interesting, it is not in itself a bad sign.

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