We have educated our readers about phishing, smishing, QRishing, and vishing scams, and now we’re warning you about what we have dubbed “snailing.” Yes, believe it or not, threat actors have gone retro and are using snail mail to try to extort victims. TechRadar is reporting that, according to GuidePoint Security, an organization received several
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Social Engineering + Stolen Credential Threats Continue to Dominate Cyber-Attacks
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- Adversaries are operating with unprecedented speed and adaptability;
Privacy Tip #411 – Phishing Attacks Increased 40% in 2023
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Everyone thinks they can spot a phishing email. If true, we would not see so many security incidents, data breaches, and ransomware attacks. The statistics are overwhelming that phishing emails are a significant cause of data breaches.
If everyone was able to spot a phishing email, threat actors would stop using them. It wouldn’t be…
Privacy Tip #393 – Phishing, Smishing, Vishing and Qrishing Schemes Continue to Dupe Users
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Privacy Tips
The recent increase in smishing and vishing schemes is prompting me to remind readers of schemes designed to trick users into providing credentials to perpetrate fraud. We have previously written on phishing, smishing, vishing, and QRishing schemes to increase awareness about these methods of intrusion.
HC3 recently warned the health care sector about vishing schemes…
Vishing Continues to be a Risk Worth Assessing
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Posted in New + Now
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…
Privacy Tip #313 – Data Breaches Aren’t Going Away Anytime Soon
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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
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Posted in New + Now
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…
FBI + CISA Issue Joint Alert on Vishing Attacks
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Posted in Cybersecurity
When the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) get together to issue an alert to warn us about a security threat, you can bet that the threat is real, and that they have seen it used successfully at an alarming rate.
The joint advisory issued on August 20,…
Privacy Tip #250 – Beware of Vishing
By Linn Foster Freedman on
Posted in Privacy Tips
The Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recently issued an alert warning the public about vishing campaigns [see related post]. Vishing is defined by the FBI as “a form of criminal phone fraud, using social engineering over the telephone system to gain access to private personal and…
Hacker Steals Millions from Virtual Currency Exchange Bithumb
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A cyber-attack against–Bithumb–one of South Korea’s largest cryptocurrency exchanges and one of the five largest in the world—has reaped access to the data of 30,000 users and drained their accounts in the process. Bithumb is one of the biggest ethereum exchanges by volume in South Korea, representing more than 44 percent of trading…