We’ve explained smishing schemes before [view related posts]. Smishing is like phishing, but uses SMS texting to deliver malicious code to users’ phones, or tricks the user into visiting a malicious website to steal their credentials or money. Hence, the important tip is to be very wary of texts from unknown individuals urging you
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Privacy Tip #340 – Smishing Scams Reminder
The Twilio and Cloudfare smishing attacks [view related post] provide a timely reminder of how sophisticated smishing attacks are and how they can affect businesses and their customers. But threat actors don’t just attack businesses– they also attack individual users, hoping to trick them into giving the threat actors credentials for access into personal…
Vishing Continues to be a Risk Worth Assessing
Phishing, Smishing, Vishing, and QRishing. All of these schemes continue to pose risk to organizations that needs to be assessed and addressed.
Vishing made a strong debut during the pandemic [view related post], and continues to be a scheme that is surprisingly successful.
This week, Morgan Stanley Wealth Management (in the wake of another…
FBI Warns of Scammers Using QR Codes
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) recently issued a warning alerting consumers that scammers are using malicious QR Codes to reroute unsuspecting customers to malicious sites to try to steal their data.
Also known as QRishing, [view related post] criminals are taking advantage of our familiarity with QR codes after using them at…
Privacy Tip #313 – Data Breaches Aren’t Going Away Anytime Soon
2021 is behind us. Whether that is positive or negative for you, in my world, it was another record year. A record year of data breaches.
According to The Identity Theft Research Center (ITRC), data breaches in 2021 surpassed the previous record year of 2020 by 17 percent. The incidents ranged from the theft of…
Phishing, Vishing, and Smishing—Your Employees Need to Know the Newest Schemes
New dictionary words have been formed to describe online scams. Phishing, one that everyone knows by now, is when a scammer uses a pretext in an email to get someone to click on a link or attachment in the email to deploy malicious malware and ransomware.
Social engineering is when criminals conduct online search of…