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Tag Archives: phishing
Vishing Voicemail? Sounds Serious!
I got a voicemail yesterday on my Google Voice number, a number I haven’t used in a year. Vishing is voice phishing, a category of social engineering and the act of using the telephone in an attempt to scam a … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, Danny Archer, fraud, phishing, Security Awareness, vishing, voice phishing
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Personnel Data and Social Security Numbers for EVERY Federal Employee STOLEN
It was announced last week that hackers stole Social Security Numbers, military records and veterans’ status information, address, birth date, job and pay history, health insurance, life insurance, and pension information (age, gender, race data) when they breached the Office … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, breach, cybercrime, fraud, hacked, hacking, Identity Theft, Office of Personnel Management, OPM, phishing
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ISIS Hackers or Incompetent Password Management?
11 television stations went off the air; websites and social media were defaced; and an internal IT outage for TV5 in Paris, France. The websites were taken over with pro-messages of the CyberCaliphate, the same group who either DDoS’ed or defaced … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, cybercaliphate, DDoS, defacement, malware, passwords, phishing, Security Awareness, TV5
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Vawtrack Trojan Capabilities
Vawtrak is a banking Trojan that has been spreading in recent months. It infects victims via malware downloaders, exploit kits, or through drive-by downloads (e.g. spam email attachments or links). AVG has a white paper (pdf) full of details. Vawtrak … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, malware, phishing, Security Awareness, social engineering, trojan, Vawtrack
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Free Apple Watch, Click Here!
A scam is being played out right now since Apple has re-introduced the Apple Watch. A group of scammers are creating Facebook events, littered with Apple Watch pictures, where the victim is instructed to invite 100 friends to join the … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, Apple, Apple Watch, Facebook, phishing, scammers, scamming, Security Awareness
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Spear Phishing in Florida Nearly Leads to Half Million Dollar Loss
Orange Park City Hall nearly lost $500,000 from the city’s bank account at Wells Fargo, according to Security Info Watch. An email with an attachment was sent to an employee. Once the attachment was opened, similar emails were sent to … Continue reading
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Tagged Orange Park City Hall, phishing, Security Awareness, spear phishing, spearphishing, Wells Fargo
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Netflix Phishing
Badguys are hitting up customers in Great Britain with phishing campaigns for the popular Netflix service. They are using a similar domain name called Netfixx, hoping people don’t catch the URL. The form asks for name and card numbers. The … Continue reading
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Tagged 2015, credit card, netfixx, netflix, phishing
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Kapersky Reports Increase in Phishing
Kaspersky recently reported that 28.8 percent of phishing attacks in 2014 tried to steal financial data from consumers. Information as of late, that has been getting stolen, WILL be used in more phishing attacks in 2015. Here is a snippet from … Continue reading
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Tagged 2014, 2015, phishing, Security Awareness
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Billion Dollar Bank Hack
Multiple banks to be exact, over the last two years, by an unknown but very organized group. The bank’s internal computers, used by employees who process daily transfers and conduct bookkeeping, had been penetrated by malware, through social engineering/phishing attacks, … Continue reading
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Tagged 1 billion dollars, ATM, Carbanak, kapersky, phishing, social engineering
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SpearPhishing in Omaha Tricked a Financial Controller to send $17.2 Million to China
The FBI was brought in to investigate The Scoular Company after the controller wired $17.2 million dollars to China through their accounting firm, KPMG. There were emails to the controller from an email address that resembled but was not the … Continue reading
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Tagged Information Technology Security Awareness, Omaha, phishing, Scoular, Security Awareness, social engineering, spear phishing, spearphishing, two-factor
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