Security Through Education

JULY 18, 2023

In 2021, AARP found that identify theft had affected more than 42 million U.S. What is Identity Theft? The DOJ defines identity theft as “all types of crimes in which someone wrongfully obtains and uses another person’s personal data in some way that involves fraud or deception, typically for economic gain.”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2023

In August 2021, T-Mobile acknowledged that hackers made off with the names, dates of birth, Social Security numbers and driver’s license/ID information on more than 40 million current, former or prospective customers who applied for credit with the company. Data stolen and exposed in this breach may also be used for identity theft.

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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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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

“According to this actor, he had originally intended to send his targets—all senior-level executives—phishing emails to compromise their accounts, but after that was unsuccessful, he pivoted to this ransomware pretext,” Abnormal’s Crane Hassold wrote. How much money are we talking about?

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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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Hot for Security

MARCH 2, 2021

Although email phishing and fraudulent websites are not a new threat to the digital community, the attack vectors deployed by scammers have become more diverse and sophisticated. While some may be harmless, consisting of ads from retailers, criminals also use emails in mass-market phishing campaigns. A daily dose of spam.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Kronos Private Cloud, a Massachusetts based payroll company, was subjected to a ransomware attack last week, disrupting most of its accounting servers; leaving many workers without their regular paychecks and bonuses for this Christmas 2021 season.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 11, 2022

And the notice says that a security incident hit the company on July 27th, 2021 when hackers fraudulently accessed its system for 5 complete days, i.e. from July 23rd to July 27th last year. Currently, there is no evidence that the stolen details were used/being used in any of the identity theft campaigns.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Threat actors have launched a phishing campaign targeting more than 125 TikTok ‘Influencer’ accounts in an attempt to hijack them. Researchers from Abnormal Security uncovered a phishing scam aimed at hijacking at least 125 TikTok ‘Influencer’ accounts. SecurityAffairs – hacking, phishing ). ” concludes the report.

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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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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

Mellen: This deal seems to be betting on the importance of offering a consolidated consumer security portfolio that incorporates identity theft protection, antivirus, and other security tools like VPNs. Also, one of the top ways attackers can target individuals is via social engineering or phishing. LW: Anything else?

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The Last Watchdog

JANUARY 3, 2023

For instance, phishing, one of the most common, is a social engineering attack used to steal user data. 2021 saw a massive increase in phishing attacks , and that trend has continued into 2022. With the rise in social media, criminals have more platforms with which to target potential phishing victims.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Revolut that offers payment processing technology was targeted by a phishing attack recently, leading to data breach of thousands of customers from Lithuania and Europe. Confirmed sources suggest the data breach occurred from a phishing attack that could have taken place in August this year.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 2, 2024

According to DoJ, from at least in or about 2016 through or about April 2021, Nasab and other co-conspirators carried out a coordinated multi-year campaign to breach computers worldwide. Nasab and other conspirators used spear phishing and other hacking techniques to infect more than 200,000 victim devices.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 17, 2021

Spider Man No Way Home has released worldwide on December 16th,2021 and is on its way to become a blockbuster. One such fraud that the security researchers of Kaspersky have discovered is the spread of malicious files and phishing attacks via email and mobile SMS.

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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 Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

If your identity was stolen, you’re not alone. million cases of identity theft were reported to the Federal Trade Commission in 2021. Identity theft is the fastest-growing crime in the United States, leaving more people and companies at risk than ever before. If you’ve been a.

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eSecurity Planet

AUGUST 13, 2021

But constant breaches of organizations large and small, and a trail of victims to ransomware and phishing opened a massive opportunity. It’s a pretty secure market too, given that employees are the weakest link in the cybersecurity chain and ransomware and phishing remain top threats. Learn more about KnowBe4. McAfee Enterprise.

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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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Identity IQ

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

This investigation has revealed these banks have collectively denied reimbursement of more than $880 million worth of reportedly fraudulent Zelle transactions between 2021 and 2023. IdentityIQ offers identity theft insurance , underwritten by AIG, and fraud restoration services that can help victims recover their losses due to fraud.

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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. What is the Most Common Form of Phishing?

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 26, 2021

As most of the students in United States are preparing to attend physical classes from September first week for the academic year 2021-2022, Sophos has issued some Cybersecurity tips for school and college students and those are follows-. For instance, their private pictures, driving license details, trip photos, credit card info and such.

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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. ” concludes the notice.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 7, 2022

Charges include “wire fraud and aggravated identity theft”. These are common phishing tactics used by regular phishers, but here we can see it being deployed in a more targeted fashion. This was all happening up until or around July 2021. The wire fraud aspect alone carries a potential maximum sentence of 20 years.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 11, 2021

Electronic Arts confirmed the news and added that no client data or anything related to the players was accessed or stolen by hackers- meaning there are zero risks for players to be targeted with phishing attacks or identity thefts.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Our researchers found that the letters are dated between 2016 and 2021. Risk of plate cloning While the leaked parking permits are no longer valid, malicious actors could use the exposed data for identity theft and to craft spear phishing attacks. Researchers contacted MTC, and public access to the data was closed.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

There’s a chance the unsolicited offer in your inbox is a “ phishing ” scheme. Phishing” occurs when a scammer poses as a legitimate company or website in an attempt to get their targets to click on a link that prompts them to enter personal information or downloads malware onto their devices. Be wary of email offers. Report scams.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

So, there is a good amount of chance that the exposed server could have acted as a gold mine for those launching phishing and identity theft attacks. However, the IT staff of CSDL took a bit more time than usual to fix the issue, leaving the server exposed online for several days.

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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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Webroot

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The respected technology blog TechRadar has even referred to 2021 as “the year of the Chromebook.”. 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. Web-borne malware remains widespread.

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Identity IQ

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Data breaches reached an all-time high, leaving a trail of identity theft cases. This has left victims scrambling to understand the extent of the damage and how to help protect themselves against the evolving threat of identity theft. Businesses faced constant threats with phishing scams , malware , and other tactics.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 2, 2024

"The concern is mainly around internal processes at AT&T, which originally denied that a data breach even occurred back in 2021 before admitting it," said Narayana Pappu, CEO at data security firm Zendata. Assuming this information is from the previous hack (2021), hopefully, AT&T has already implemented remediation."

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 22, 2024

The dataset is extremely dangerous as threat actors could leverage the aggregated data for a wide range of attacks, including identity theft, sophisticated phishing schemes, targeted cyberattacks, and unauthorized access to personal and sensitive accounts,” the researchers said. The leak’s scale is of yet unseen proportions.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 31, 2021

Cybercriminals often leverage social engineering tactics like phishing and spear-phishing to propagate sophisticated malware. And it all started with a single employee falling prey to a phishing email. Employees are knowledgeable enough to spot a phishing email and double-check before providing sensitive information.

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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

But also the young generation between 25-35 are falling prey to Instagram and TikTok related dating or phishing scams where threat actors send fraudulent emails to victims stating that their videos will be deleted from the platform as they violate copyrights or need to be eligible for verification. million banking Trojans, and over 1.8

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