Today’s Fraud News from around the world:
DISH Selects Allot to Protect OpenRAN 5G Network from Cybersecurity Threats: We are thrilled that DISH chose to partner with Allot to help secure its innovative 5G network,” said Erez Antebi, CEO, Allot. “With a distributed core architecture, DISH’s 5G network will be able to …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Ways In Which Financial Frauds Can Wipe Your Hard-Earned Income: Many phishing scams now-a-days involve ‘social engineering’, in which the fraudsters posing as service representative of reputed financial institutions, calls up or engages over email with …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Online scams targeted by Fraud Prevention Month campaign: “On the business side, we’re focusing on the CEO, spear phishing, business email compromise or virus protection scams. Phishing scams are when scammers try to gain an individual’s or company’s bank …: “Phishing” – BingNews
South Africans have good and bad cybersecurity habits, but lag global levels: The research shows that South Africans scored 78.6 out of 100 points, 5.6 points lower than the global average, in terms of knowing how to react to online threats and phishing attacks. They also …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Have you been hit by Facebook’s data breach? Here’s how to find out: Have you been hit by the Facebook data leak? Last week the personal data of more than 500 million Facebook users was leaked online again, and the consequences for Irish users could be far reaching, …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Your Cat Videos May be Giving Away Sensitive Data to Hackers, and You Didn’t Even Know it: One way they have sought to boost success rates is to personalise scams – think spear phishing-type attacks. No longer do we see “Dear user”, but rather “Dear [your name]”. And, scams now even use …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Switch on to cyber, the growing risk – Aviva: Cyber security experts have seen that attackers move quickly to launch phishing attacks around other threats or humanitarian disaster events, and the increase of homeworking, as a result of the …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Hackers From China Target Vietnamese Military and Government: A hacking group related to a Chinese-speaking threat actor has been linked to an advanced cyberespionage campaign targeting government and military organizations in Vietnam.The attacks have been attri …: “Phishing” – BingNews
APT Group Using Voice Changing Software in Spear-Phishing Campaign: A sub-group of the ‘Molerats’ threat-actor has been using voice-changing software to successfully trick targets into installing malware, according to a warning from Cado Security. The Molerats hacking …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Survey: Increase in Payments Fraud Activity Attributed to the Pandemic, According to 65% of Financial Professionals: Stock quotes by finanzen.net BETHESDA, Md., April 6, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Of those respondents that reported increased fraud activity at their organizations, nearly two-thirds of treasury and finance …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Fraud Prevention Tip: Keep thorough records. If your laptop is stolen, can you provide a full description to the police? Write down your computer’s make, model, color and most importantly the unique serial number, which acts as a key identifier, much like the vehicle identification number (VIN) on a car. You might also need this information to file an insurance claim.