Today’s Fraud News from around the world:
India’s Cyber Arm Asks Facebook Users to Enhance Account Privacy: India’s Cyber Security arm Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-In) has advised social media platform Facebook users to ‘strengthen’ their account security after a recent global data leak incident …: “Phishing” – BingNews
N-able, with Triangle office, partners to combat malicious security threats: A new collaboration aims to provide end-to-end solution, powered by AI, to detect cybersecurity threats to businesses.: “Phishing” – BingNews
What can hackers do with my email address? A lot. Here’s how to protect your identity: Once this is on a scammer’s radar, they could steal everything from your own identity to the identities of everyone in your contact list.: “Phishing” – BingNews
eBay, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and Google were phishers’ top targets in 2020: Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and Google made up the rest of the top five. Security intelligence director Grayson Milbourne said it’s not uncommon to see phishing campaigns make big shifts in the …: “Phishing” – BingNews
German expat in Dubai loses Dh45,000 to phishing attack: Timna Sophia, 32, a German expatriate, felt the ground open up before her on April 10. Soon, she was overcome with horror, trauma, despair, and vulnerability.Sophia’s woes started after she was …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Banking revealed as the third most phished industry in Q4 2020, report suggests: IT software company CheckPoint Research has released the Brand Phishing Report for Q1 2021 highlighting the most frequently criminally counterfeited …: “Phishing” – BingNews
OpenText Announces 2021 Webroot BrightCloud® Threat Report: OpenText™ (NASDAQ: OTEX), (TSX: OTEX), today announced the release of the 2021 Webroot BrightCloud® Threat Report. Webroot’s unparalleled sixth generation machine learning security platform provides …: “Phishing” – BingNews
,000 swindle puts spotlight on literary prize scams: Someone is posing as the winner of British prizes and asking that funds be routed to a PayPal account. Organizers of one prize fell for it.: “Phishing” – BingNews
Company director convicted of money laundering after his bank account received £200,000 scammed through phishing email: Nikki Flowers had denied entering into an arrangement for facilitating the acquisition, retention, or control of criminal property …: “Phishing” – BingNews
61% Of Employees Fail A Basic Cyber Security Test: Almost 70% of employees polled in a new survey have had cyber security training, but over sixty percent of them failed a basic cyber security test.: “Phishing” – BingNews
Fraud Prevention Tip: Identity Theft – Hackers, and in some cases people in general, take on the identity or persona of someone else by hacking or stealing personal documents of another person and use it to gain access to certain services or to carry out financial transactions. A staggering 44% i.e. 1,357,055 people complained about identity theft in 2016.