Today’s Fraud News from around the world:
Phishing is the leading type of COVID-19 fraud: TransUnion surveyed consumers in six countries and found that phishing was the preferred method of attack 27% of the time.: “Phishing” – BingNews
Prometei botnet exploits Windows SMB to mine for cryptocurrency: Prometei C2 requests have been detected from countries including the US, Brazil, Turkey, China, and Mexico. TechRepublic: Phishing attacks hiding in Google Cloud to steal Microsoft account credentials …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Russia report: Six things we learned from dossier about interference in UK politics: Dossier sets out Moscow-linked cyber threats, influence of Russian money and growth of Kremlin ‘enablers’ in UK …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Annual Report and Notice of AGM: a) A major cyber incident on our information or operational technology (i.e. ransomware) impacting short-term trading; and/or b) A failure to stop/identify sophisticated malicious cyber intruders on …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Coronavirus news LIVE: Cases surge in Spain as Brits face passport delays of nearly five months and deaths top 56,000: SPAIN has seen a surge in coronavirus cases, with cases in the country tripling since the end of lockdown. It means thousands of Brits could now have to quarantine on their return to the UK, as …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Student shared Bank Details on WhatsApp in Covid-19 Scam: A student from London masterminded a Covid-19 scam where he stole victims’ bank details. He later shared them on WhatsApp.: “Phishing” – BingNews
Coronavirus fears exploited by criminals to launch cyberattacks, say analysts: A new report by cybersecurity firm McAfee says it has seen an average of 375 new threats per minute during the pandemic, through Covid-19 themed malicious apps, phishing campaigns, malware and …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Loveholidays warns of fake callers posing as its staff: Online travel agency Loveholidays is warning customers that fraudulent callers are posing as Loveholidays staff. A message on its Facebook page says: “We have been informed that fake callers posing as …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Which areas of cybersecurity market will grow fastest in 2020?: Canalys forecasts that overall security market will grow by 2.5 per cent this year even under a ‘worst case scenario’ …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Kaseya exec on how MSPs have adapted through the pandemic: Scared and angst-ridden employees may also be less vigilant than usual. Phishing scams exploiting these fears may cause some workers to be more cavalier about clicking links in emails and social media …: “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.