account hijacking

As ATO attacks surge, consumers expect merchants to protect them from fraud

October 6, 2020

Attempted account takeover (ATO) attacks swelled 282 percent between Q2 2019 to Q2 2020, Sift reveals. Likewise, ATO rates for physical ecommerce businesses — those that sell …

Preventing ecommerce fraud: A look at current trends and patterns

October 5, 2020

Forter released its Fraud Attack Index, delivering in-depth insight into the impact of COVID-19 on online buyer behavior and ecommerce fraud trends. This edition revealed …

Twitter employees were spear-phished over the phone

July 31, 2020

Twitter has finally shared more details about how the perpetrators of the recent hijacking of high-profile accounts to push a Bitcoin scam managed to pull it off. The way in …

Attackers have created a specialized economy around email account takeover

July 27, 2020

Barracuda released key findings about the ways cybercriminals are attacking and exploiting email accounts. The report reveals a specialized economy emerging around email …

High-profile Twitter accounts hijacked to push Bitcoin scam. How did it happen?

July 16, 2020

The Twittersphere went into overdrive on Wednesday as a bunch of prominent, verified Twitter accounts were hijacked and started promoting a COVID-19 cryptocurrency giveaway …

Duration of application DDoS attacks increasing, some go on for days

June 25, 2020

There were seven major application DDoS attacks over the previous month — two of which lasted 5-6 days, Imperva reveals. Additionally, the team found that 47% of account …

What can merchants do to avoid falling victim to large-scale ATO attacks?

May 22, 2020

Account Takeover (ATO) attacks happen when a bad actor gains access to a legitimate customer’s eCommerce store account and uses that account for fraud. The impact of ATO …

Phishers are trying to bypass Office 365 MFA via rogue apps

May 19, 2020

Phishers are trying to bypass the multi-factor authentication (MFA) protection on users’ Office 365 accounts by tricking them into granting permissions to a rogue …

Preventing account takeover and social engineering attacks

May 5, 2020

Since the COVID-19 outbreak, digital fraud has increased significantly, especially when it comes to account takeover. In this Help Net Security podcast, Angie White, Senior …

Government-backed cyber attackers increasingly targeting journalists

March 27, 2020

Since the start of the year, journalists and news outlets have become preferred targets of government-backed cyber attackers, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) has noticed. …

As consumers turn online for purchases, many are targeted by pandemic-related digital fraud

March 26, 2020

There has been a spike in digital commerce since social distancing became widespread globally, according to a TransUnion research. The research found a 23% increase in global …

How to protect your online streaming accounts from cybercriminals?

March 23, 2020

Have you secured your streaming services’ accounts? Are you sure someone else, unbeknown to you, isn’t using them as well? As people around the world are being …