Today’s Fraud News from around the world:
Security breach at trading platform Robinhood sparks phishing fears: US trading platform Robinhood Markets has admitted that client data has been stolen by crooks who tricked a customer support employee. The social engineering attack on November 3 allowed miscreants to …: “Phishing” – BingNews
HelpSystems: Research Finds Alarming Jump in Phishing Attacks: PhishLabs Threat Trends and Intelligence Report show attacks grow 31.5% year-to-date over 2020, with social media attacks continuing to climb; September more than doubles its phishing activity over …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Research Finds Alarming Jump in Phishing Attacks: PhishLabs by HelpSystems, the leading provider of Digital Risk Protection solutions, today released their Quarterly Threat Trends …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Robinhood Trading Platform Data Breach Hits 7M Customers: The cyberattacker attempted to extort the company after socially engineering a customer service employee to gain access to email addresses and more.: “Phishing” – BingNews
This top VPN provider may have leaked millions of user details: Cybersecurity researchers have found an unprotected database weighing over 100GB that contains more than 300 million records including all kinds of personally identifiable information (PII) of VPN …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Lucy Security Acclaimed by Frost & Sullivan for Developing Security Awareness Training (SAT) Solutions with Its E-learning Platform: Lucy Security’s reliable and powerful SAT tools provide organizations with the understanding and ability to strengthen preventive measures on several security topics, such as phishing, password …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Hacker Steals Over Million in Crypto: A hacker stole over $ 55 million after a developer at crypto company bZx fell for a phishing attack. More at TechRound >> …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Curricula Launches Free Security Awareness Training for Every Organization: Curricula, the fun security awareness training company, is proud to announce its platform is now free to any organization for up to 1,000 employees. With the growing threat of phishing and ransomware …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Hacker Hits Robinhood to Steal Email Addresses From 5 Million Users: The stock and cryptocurrency trading app Robinhood is reporting it suffered a data breach that mainly exposed email addresses for 5 million users, and full names for another 2 million users. The …: “Phishing” – BingNews
Fraud Prevention Tip: Pay the safest way. Credit cards are the safest way to pay for online purchases because you can dispute the charges if you never get the goods or services or if the offer was misrepresented. Federal law limits your liability to $ 50 if someone makes unauthorized charges to your account, and most credit card issuers will remove them completely if you report the problem promptly.