Today’s Fraud News from around the world:
How to Outsmart Loan Payment Scammers: As more shoppers become mindful of the risks of phishing (con artists taking individual information), a few lawbreakers pick another plan: loan payment scams. For loan payment scams to work, these …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Phishing Prevention 101: How to Recognize an Attack and Other Useful Tips: Here’s how you can achieve complete phishing prevention for your enterprise and keep your digital assets safe.: “Phishing” – BingNews
Rapid Growth of Application-to-Person (A2P) Business Messaging During COVID-19: Application-to-Person (A2P) messaging, or one-directional messaging from an application to a person where no reply is expected, has seen double digit growth.: “Phishing” – BingNews
Bitcoin cyber attacks surge following rising demand and increasing price of bitcoin: Phishing impersonations and business email compromise (BEC) attacks designed to steal victims’ bitcoin surged by 192% …: “Phishing” – BingNews
A LinkedIn “Breach” Exposes 92% Of Users…And Other Small Business Tech News: Here are five things in technology that happened this past week and how they affect your business. Did you miss them?: “Phishing” – BingNews
The anatomy of cyber risk: The COVID-19 pandemic and the Great Lockdown have contributed to the global rise in cyber risk, which is already a source of systemic risk for firms (WEF 2016). The number of reported cyber attacks in …: “Phishing” – BingNews
ICICI Mobile Banking Alert! Here’s how to keep your M-Banking safe from SIM-Swap fraud: This further increases the vulnerability as fraudsters conduct SIM swap/exchange and manage to get an OTP or alerts that come on that phone number. With the help of SIM swap, they get a new SIM card …: “Phishing” – BingNews
How Modern Data Protection best practices can improve the security of local councils: Dan Middleton, vice-president UK&I at Veeam, discusses how Modern Data Protection best practice can better protect local councils …: “Phishing” – BingNews
‘It’s a scam’: Thousands of drivers targeted by text, email: Guess I better click on the helpful link offering to update records in this official email from Secretary of State Jesse White with a patriotic eagle logo. This nearly happened last week, but the …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Local cybersecurity experts warn ransomware is costly threat to small business: As businesses, utility providers, municipalities and even hospitals come under attack with ransomware each day in the United States, local experts in the cybersecurity space are warning small …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Fraud Prevention Tip: Fully understand the offer. A legitimate seller will give you all the details about the products or services, the total price, the delivery time, the refund and cancellation policies, and the terms of any warranty. Contact the seller if any of these details are missing, if they are unable to provide the details, it may be a sign that it’s a scam.