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Romance scams are on the rise and Valentine’s Day is just one example of when these scams can significantly increase.

The statistics show more than 60% of all small and medium businesses experienced cyberattacks throughout 2022.

The FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 is the most anticipated sporting event of 2022, and it begins on November 20. In addition to enthralling hundreds of millions of fans worldwide, it has piqued the interest of cybercriminals looking to make a quick buck.

Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attacks have become an ongoing threat for organisations. Using a variety of techniques, a wide range of threat actors from lone hackers, criminal gangs and hacktivists to nation-states are using DDoS attacks to disrupt or disable the performance of target systems.

Cybercriminals are very creative and always follow trends closely, even predicting change before the masses in order to maximize the outcome of their techniques. Not too many years ago, there were only a few platforms to use to target new victims while leaving little evidence and unlikely to face any repercussions. The dark web became a place to buy and sell contraband, but the numbers didn’t ever really hit the relative big time with the audiences such that those taking advantage of the technology could actually achieve their wildest dreams.

Scammers frequently use the guise of well-known companies to reach out to a specific community. The attackers in a new malicious activity discovered by Kaspersky experts were hidden behind the technology company Nvidia.

Group-IB presented the findings of its research into various scam schemes at the Digital Risk Summit 2022 online conference, which was divided into analytical and technology-related streams.

The World Wide Web is undergoing a transition to Web 3.0, which is being fueled by advancements in cryptocurrency, blockchain technology, decentralized applications, and decentralized file storage.

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So there’s a strong and growing demand for vaccinations and test results because of the greater freedoms they will give to people. And of course, there will always be people who don’t want to wait for their official vaccination, or for an official negative test result – and shady people willing to service that demand.