Cybersecurity Starts in the Boardroom
Phishing campaigns usually depend on social engineering and threat actors are always looking for new ways to exploit your trust: Phishing scam adds a ‘chatbot-like’ twist to steal credit card information and more – The Record by Recorded Future
These are two very different stories but both basically spin around the same idea – on the internet it is easy to pretend to be something you are not: Huge rise in LinkedIn bogus boss scams – Warwickshire Police – BBC News Ukraine war: Investigation finds hundreds of fake charity …
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This is a constant problem – scammers contacting people, usually by phone, offering a service or stating that the victim’s computer is infected by a virus, often claiming to be from Microsoft. Once the scammer establishes “trust” they then offer to remote into or screen share to the victim’s computer, …
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This story was first posted on 11 April 2022. A simple story – Google is taking a bad actor to court that has been using their systems to run their scams. Hounding scammers with litigation (blog.google) UPDATE Here are some details of the scam. Google sues alleged scam site operator …
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