Social engineering

Cybercriminals impersonate World Health Organization to distribute fake coronavirus e-book - Threat actors ramp up on coronavirus-themed campaigns, posing as the World Health Organization sending emails with fake e-book content. Instead of advice, users get compromised with malware.

Social engineering

Cybercriminals impersonate World Health Organization to distribute fake coronavirus e-book

March 18, 2020 - Threat actors ramp up on coronavirus-themed campaigns, posing as the World Health Organization sending emails with fake e-book content. Instead of advice, users get compromised with malware.

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Battling online coronavirus scams with facts - New online scams have preyed on the public's fear about coronavirus outbreak. Don't be fooled. Here is what we know about coronavirus and its related scams.

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Battling online coronavirus scams with facts

February 10, 2020 - New online scams have preyed on the public's fear about coronavirus outbreak. Don't be fooled. Here is what we know about coronavirus and its related scams.

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Spear phishing 101: what you need to know - We look at the threat of spear phishing, why it's such a problem, and what organizations can do to lessen the chance of a successful attack.

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Spear phishing 101: what you need to know

January 29, 2020 - We look at the threat of spear phishing, why it's such a problem, and what organizations can do to lessen the chance of a successful attack.

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Fake Elder Scrolls Online developers go phishing on PlayStation - We take a look at a pressure-filled phishing attempt sent to players of the Elder Scrolls Online video game.

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Fake Elder Scrolls Online developers go phishing on PlayStation

December 6, 2019 - We take a look at a pressure-filled phishing attempt sent to players of the Elder Scrolls Online video game.

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Deepfakes and LinkedIn: malign interference campaigns - Don't discount deepfakes just yet. We may not be fooled by phony Mark Zuckerberg anymore, but the discovery of a fake LinkedIn profile sporting a deepfake avatar shows how social engineering can deceive through the mundane.

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Deepfakes and LinkedIn: malign interference campaigns

November 20, 2019 - Don't discount deepfakes just yet. We may not be fooled by phony Mark Zuckerberg anymore, but the discovery of a fake LinkedIn profile sporting a deepfake avatar shows how social engineering can deceive through the mundane.

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Help prevent disaster donation scams from causing more misery - Scammers will stop at nothing—not even a tragic natural disaster—for a chance to cash in. We offer some helpful tips to avoid disaster donation scams.

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Help prevent disaster donation scams from causing more misery

October 30, 2019 - Scammers will stop at nothing—not even a tragic natural disaster—for a chance to cash in. We offer some helpful tips to avoid disaster donation scams.

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Instagram clamps down on fake messages with anti-phishing tool - We take a look at a new anti-phishing feature Instagram hopes will cut down on imitation messages and other social engineering attempts.

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Instagram clamps down on fake messages with anti-phishing tool

October 15, 2019 - We take a look at a new anti-phishing feature Instagram hopes will cut down on imitation messages and other social engineering attempts.

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New social engineering toolkit draws inspiration from previous web campaigns - We discovered a web social engineering toolkit that allows crooks to create fake update notification campaigns on both desktop and mobile in up to 30 different languages.

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New social engineering toolkit draws inspiration from previous web campaigns

September 3, 2019 - We discovered a web social engineering toolkit that allows crooks to create fake update notification campaigns on both desktop and mobile in up to 30 different languages.

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Good Twitter Samaritans accidentally prevent shoeshine scam - We take a look at how a shoeshine scam nearly took place in real life—until people online trying to help in one way, ended up assisting in quite another.

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Good Twitter Samaritans accidentally prevent shoeshine scam

July 26, 2019 - We take a look at how a shoeshine scam nearly took place in real life—until people online trying to help in one way, ended up assisting in quite another.

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