Phishing
Fraud Blog posts tagged “Phishing”.
Germany Issues First GDPR Fine Following Data Breach at Social Media Company
Nearly 2 million username and password combinations along with 330,000 email and password combinations were exposed in a data breach…
Nov 5, 2021 · 1 min read Data BreachGermany Issues First GDPR Fine Following Data Breach at Social Media Company
Nearly 2 million username and password combinations along with 330,000 email and password combinations were exposed in a data breach…
Nov 5, 2021 · 1 min read Data BreachMore than 1-in-10 Ransomware Attacks Involve Threat of Releasing Consumer or Client Data
Turning ransomware attacks into data breaches if the ransom isn’t paid, what’s being called exfiltration+encryption attacks, can be…
Nov 5, 2021 · 1 min read Fraud PreventionNearly Nine-in-Ten Organizations Experienced Spear Phishing Attacks; Over Half Fell Victim in 2019
According to a survey of over 600 IT security professionals across seven countries, 88 percent of organizations saw spear phishing attacks,…
Nov 5, 2021 · 3 min read Data BreachLivingSocial Data Breach Comprises Information of 50 Million Users
Daily deal website LivingSocial suffered a data breach compromising emails, passwords and more information for most of the site’s users…
Nov 3, 2021 · 1 min read Fraud PreventionStudy Finds Facebook ‘Likes’ Can be Used to Determine Demographic and Personal Information
While many social media users have become more aware of privacy issues and have made their profiles private, a recent academic study has…
Nov 3, 2021 · 2 min read Case StudiesFraudsters Copy Legitimate Microsoft Email Days Later in Phishing Scam
Phishing scams can often be convincing, and a recent case of a phishing campaign emulating a legitimate Microsoft email about changes to…
Nov 2, 2021 · 2 min read Fraud PreventionStudy Shows Phishing Could Evolve to Target Brainwave Activity
Advancements in technology over recent years have made EEG headsets, which read and interpret brain activity into controlling software…
Nov 2, 2021 · 2 min read