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The Scammers’ Playbook: How Cybercriminals Get Ahold of Your Data

eSecurity Planet

Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way. Finance and insurance companies were particularly vulnerable to the sort of phishing scams we’re talking about. 70% of attacks were on banks.

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The Marvels and Challenges of AI

Webroot

Energy efficiency Smart grids balance energy supply and demand, minimizing wastage. Renewable energy sources integrate seamlessly into the grid. Example: Smart meter: “Solar panels are generating excess energy. Part 2: AI and the need for vigilance in our digital lives The rise of AI scams 1.

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Advanced threat predictions for 2025

SecureList

One of these botnets was Quad7 , which was installed on compromised routers by the Storm-0940 actor to conduct password spraying. In general, we’ve observed hacktivists in the Russo-Ukrainian conflict become more skilled and more focused on attacking large organizations such as government, manufacturing and energy entities.

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Massive utility scam campaign spreads via online ads

Malwarebytes

For many households, energy costs represent a significant part of their overall budget. Enter the utility scam , where crooks pretend to be your utility company so they can threaten and extort as much money from you as they can. The utility scam often works by threatening and scaring victims into making poor decisions.

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Cyber Security Roundup for April 2021

Security Boulevard

review Active Directory password policy. However, one recently introduced UK cybersecurity law, which was meant to boost the resilience of the UK's energy sector by obliging gas and electricity firms to report to hacks, doesn't appear to be very effectively adopted. ISPs, utilities) and energy sector firms (i.e.

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Large-Scale AiTM Attack targeting enterprise users of Microsoft email services

Security Boulevard

Some of the key industry verticals such as FinTech, Lending, Insurance, Energy and Manufacturing in geographical regions such as the US, UK, New Zealand and Australia are targeted. Domains spoofing password reset theme. Some of the domain names used keywords related to "password reset" and "password expiry" reminders.

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Spam and phishing in 2022

SecureList

Thus, during the World Cup a brand-new scam appeared: it offered users to win a newly released iPhone 14 for predicting match outcomes. In a typical internet hoax manner, crypto scam sites offered visitors to get rich quick by paying a small fee. “Promotional campaigns by major banks” were a popular bait in 2022.

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