Today’s Fraud News from around the world:
How falling for a phishing email led to a crippling ransomware attack in Ireland: On March 18th, an employee in Ireland’s healthcare system clicked on and downloaded a malicious Microsoft Excel spreadsheet in an email. According to an official report by PwC issued this month, that …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Minnesota has done well protecting state agencies from cybersecurity threats. A new Legislative commission wants to keep it that way.: Though Minnesota is does well in protecting state agencies against attacks, there are a lot of vulnerabilities at the local level.: “Phishing” – BingNews
Phone scam warning from US customs as criminals claim intercepted drug box has YOUR name on it: A NEW phone scam claiming US customs has intercepted a box of drugs with your name on it has been highlighted by officials. US Customs and Border Protection has had to issue a warning about the …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Meta bans 7 surveillance-for-hire groups from FB, Instagram for spying on users: Meta said it has alerted the users who it believes were under the surveillance of these groups and has also shared its findings with security researchers, policymakers and other social media companies …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Facebook Bans Spy-for-Hire Firms for Targeting 50K People: Meta, Facebook’s parent company, said that the seven banned actors run fake accounts on its platforms to deceive users and plant malware on targets’ phones.: “Phishing” – BingNews
Meta disables 7 ‘surveillance-for-hire’ entities, alerts 50,000 users: Meta (formerly Facebook) on Friday said it has disabled seven ‘surveillance-for-hire’ entities, including one from India, that targeted individuals including politicians, election officials, human …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Spider-Man Movie Release Frenzy Bites Fans with Credit-Card Harvesting: Attackers are using the excitement over the new Spider-Man movie to steal bank information and spread malware.: “Phishing” – BingNews
Phishing scam targets Frontier customers: By Meg Upon mupton@plumasnews.com Some Indian Valley Frontier customers are receiving robocalls on their digital phonelines from an …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Mitigating against DDoS attacks: Mitesh Jain, Regional Sales Director for India region, Akamai Technologies talks about strategies that financial services organisations need to adopt ..: “Phishing” – BingNews
The realities of domain security: If effectively put in place, domain security initiatives proactively target phishing at the source. They include proactive measures to secure legitimate domains and to monitor and then eliminate …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Fraud Prevention Tip: The Friendly Foe – Mind boggling as it seems, normal everyday people have known to carry out this type of scam, just because there was a loophole that was available for them to exploit. In this type of scam individuals carry out online transactions through their credit or debit cards and then once they receive their goods or are done using a service they report it as an unauthorized transaction that they did not carry out, resulting in charge-backs to the business that provided the service or goods.