Scams

Forget Fake Notes & Cards, A 19-Year-Old Chennai Guy Was Arrested For Running A Fake Bank Branch They say that one should learn from their parents and follow their footsteps.  A 19-year-old from Chennai gave it his own twist, when he put the knowledge gained by being around his parents, Read more…

Persuasive Office 365 Phishing Uses Fake Zoom Suspension Alerts Microsoft Office 365 users are targeted by a new phishing campaign using fake Zoom notifications to warn those who work in corporate environments that their Zoom accounts have been suspended, with the end goal of stealing Office 365 logins. Zoom is Read more…

US Treasury Shares Tips On Spotting Money Mule And Imposter Scams The U.S. Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) today has issued a security alert designed to share potential indicators of imposter scams and money mule schemes with U.S. financial institutions. FinCEN, which is a bureau of the U.S. Department of the Treasury, Read more…

Clever Phishing Scam Targets Websites With Free DNSSEC Offer A very clever phishing campaign targets bloggers and website owners with emails pretending to be from their hosting provider who wants to upgrade their domain to use secure DNS (DNSSEC). As it’s possible to determine who is hosting a domain for a Read more…

Wells Fargo Phishing Baits Customers With Calendar Invites Wells Fargo customers are being targeted by a phishing campaign impersonating the Wells Fargo Security Team and luring potential victims to phishing pages with the help of calendar invites. Wells Fargo is a multinational financial services (banking, investment, and mortgage) provider with Read more…

Hacker Arrested For Stealing, Selling PII Of 65k Hospital Employees 29-year-old Michigan man Justin Sean Johnson was arrested earlier this week for allegedly being behind the 2014 hack of the health care provider and insurer University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC), stealing the PII and W-2 information of over 65,000 employees, and selling it on Read more…

Netflix Credential Phishing Hides Behind Working Captcha A recent wave of phishing attacks aiming to steal payment card info and credentials for Netflix streaming service starts with redirecting to a functioning CAPTCHA page to bypass email security controls. The actor behind these attempts used a “failed payment” theme to engage Read more…

Police warn of phishing scams after nearly 30-fold spike in cases Bookmark SINGAPORE: The number of phishing scams in the first five months of 2020 has increased to 266 cases, almost 30 times the nine cases reported in the same period last year, police said on Tuesday (Jun 9). At Read more…

$350 USB Stick That Claims to Block 5G Is Actually a $6 Generic Thumb Drive Security firm Pen Test Partners ordered the 5G BioShield, and found that it’s just a cheap unbranded USB stick likely made in Shenzhen, China. (Credit: 5GBioshield’s website) No, 5G won’t give you coronavirus. But that isn’t stopping Read more…

Multi-stage fraud scheme has exploited the likes of Singtel and SingPost, and celebrities like JJ Lin and Bryan Wong Using the names of local brands and celebrities, scammers are targeting Singaporeans in an elaborate scheme to steal their personal data. Recently, they have also exploited the Covid-19 pandemic, using news Read more…