Summer holiday season fuels upswing of travel-themed spam
With Covid-19-related travel restrictions having been dropped by most countries, pleasure-seeking travelers are booking plane tickets, accomodations and tours with a …
57% of all digital crimes in 2021 were scams
Group-IB shares its analysis of the landscape of the most widespread cyber threat in the world: scams. Accounting for 57% of all financially motivated cybercrime, the scam …
$39.5 billion lost to phone scams in last year
Truecaller announced a research conducted in partnership with The Harris Poll in March of 2022, and the findings detail trends/insights on the impact of spam and phone scams …
Keeping pace with emerging threats: The roundup
Egress issued its mid-year 2022 threat report offering details of emerging threats along with insights about protecting employees, customers, and businesses from these …
Vishing cases reach all time high
Vishing (voice phishing) cases have increased almost 550 percent over the last twelve months (Q1 2022 to Q1 2021), according to the latest Quarterly Threat Trends & …
Cybercriminals deliver IRS tax scams and phishing campaigns by mimicking government vendors
Cybercriminals are leveraging advanced tactics in their phishing-kits granting them a high delivery success rate of spoofed e-mails which contain malicious attachments right …
Eavesdropping scam: A new scam call tactic
Hiya has detected the newest scam call tactic, the eavesdropping scam. The new scam aims to get users to call back by leaving vague voicemail messages where an unknown voice …
Cybercriminals taking advantage of the Ukraine crisis to create charity donation scams
In this video for Help Net Security, Charles Brook, Threat Intelligence Researcher at Tessian, talks about how cybercriminals have taken advantage of the crisis in Ukraine to …
Utilizing biological algorithms to detect cyber attacks
Phishing, a longstanding cyberattack technique through which attackers impersonate others to gain access to confidential information, has become immensely popular as of late, …
Traditional identity fraud losses soar, totalling $52 billion in 2021
A study shows that traditional identity fraud losses, caused by criminals illegally using victims’ information to steal money, exploded in 2021 to $24 billion — an alarming …
Beware of old and new tax-themed scams and schemes
April 18 marks the end of the 2022 US tax season and those individuals who are yet to file their taxes should get a move on. But they should not throw caution to the wind, as …
Cybercriminals focusing on crypto donations to Ukraine to trick victims
As the war in Ukraine unfolded, one way of helping was to donate cryptocurrency which resulted in over $50 million in crypto donations. Cybercriminals were quick to move and …
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