May 6, 2021
World Password Day: Passwords are the Prize Target of Phishing Scams
Highlighting the threat that compromised passwords pose, a survey by HYPR identified that nearly a third of respondents had experienced a credential stuffing attack wherein cybercriminals attempted to employ a large number of stolen user logins and passwords to compromise applications and systems. Adding to the challenges already plaguing IT teams, hackers also use stolen passwords for personal emails.
April 5, 2021
Instagram scams and how to avoid them
This scamming has worsened over the past year, with the BBC claiming in January 2021 that Instagram fraud reports have increased by 50% since the coronavirus outbreak began in 2020. As our digital lives continue to grow, and online scammers learn new tricks, it is important to know how to identify an Instagram scam.
January 17, 2021
New mobile payment scams: 2021 predictions by McAfee
According to research by RSA’s Fraud and Risk Intelligence team, 72% of cyber fraud activity involved the mobile channel in the fourth quarter of 2019. The researchers observed that this represented “the highest percentage of fraud involving mobile apps in nearly two years and underscores a broader shift away from fraud involving web browsers on PCs.”
September 28, 2020
New tool helps companies assess why employees click on phishing emails
Phishing is an unsolicited email or any other form of electronic communication where cybercriminals impersonate a trusted organization and attempt to pilfer your data. Information such as access credentials can be then abused for further attacks or sold on the dark web and used to commit fraud or identity theft.
September 10, 2020
Attackers impersonating major brands domains to scam consumers
We also ranked the Top 20 most abused domains in December 2019 based on the adjusted malicious rate, which means that a domain is either a target of many squatting domains or most of these squatting domains are confirmed malicious.
