I had to include a link to this article: Weep for the cybercriminals who fell for online scams and lost $2.5m last year • The Register I think I will refuse them access to our online cyber security awareness training!
It is a busy shopping weekend around the world so the scammers are out
Scammers will always take advantage of any situation if they think they will get away with exploiting you: Scammers, bots dominate threat landscape ahead of Black Friday and Cyber Monday – The Record by Recorded Future Just take a little care.
Elon’s Twitter messes up – roll on the scammers
Elon Musk’s new idea to move Twitter into profit, charging for the blue verification tick, had a fault in its design. Twitter was not verifying the users were who they we purporting to be – so the threat actors moved in very quickly pretending to be a range of celebrities, …
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Scammers net $23m through YouTube
By abusing copyright and YouTube cyber criminals were able to steal millions of dollars of royalties. No mention is made of the profit YouTube made from the adverting revenue from these videos involved in the heist! The largest YouTube royalties heist in history spotlights a much larger problem | Mashable
Beware of fake NHS Covid text messages
There is a widespread text phishing campaign in progress at this very moment. You may get a text that looks like it comes from the NHS, telling you you have been in close contact with someone who is positive for Covid and that you should get a test kit to …
