Phishing Scams VPN 
Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 21, 2024
A visual depiction of the attacks by the SMS phishing group known as Scattered Spider, and Oktapus. The targeted SMS scams asked employees to click a link and log in at a website that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. Image: Amitai Cohen twitter.com/amitaico. com and ouryahoo-okta[.]com. Click to enlarge.
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 19, 2020
The COVID-19 epidemic has brought a wave of email phishing attacks that try to trick work-at-home employees into giving away credentials needed to remotely access their employers’ networks. The employee phishing page bofaticket[.]com. Image: urlscan.io. ” SPEAR VISHING.
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Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 21, 2020
The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting employees at GoDaddy , the world’s largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. In March, a voice phishing scam targeting GoDaddy support employees allowed attackers to assume control over at least a half-dozen domain names, including transaction brokering site escrow.com.
Adam Levin
NOVEMBER 17, 2020
Here are 50 ways to avoid getting scammed on Black Friday — and beyond. Popular browsers, like Safari or Firefox, frequently issue updates to protect against scams. VPNs encrypt data , making it much harder to intercept when transmitted through a shared or suspect internet connection. Choose credit over debit.
Adam Levin
NOVEMBER 23, 2020
of all reports to the BBB Scam Tracker “were online purchase scams, up from 24.3% of those consumers lost money due to those scams, up from 71.2% A BBB survey conducted in August found that the majority of these scammed consumers made purchases for which they never received products. On top of that, 80.5%
Schneier on Security
APRIL 7, 2020
If the organization is lucky, they will have already set up a VPN for remote access. Handing people VPN software to install and use with zero training is a recipe for security mistakes, but not using a VPN is even worse. Here are some examples of what's been observed in the past few days: Doubling of email phishing attempts.
Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
But it’s worth revisiting how this group typically got in to targeted companies: By calling employees and tricking them into navigating to a phishing website. But we do know the March 2020 attack was precipitated by a spear-phishing attack against a GoDaddy employee. In a filing with the U.S.
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