IT Sec News updates – Phishing Attacks

January 8, 2024
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New Year, Old Tricks: Phishing Scammers Fake Giveaways – The Cyber Express

Phishing scammers are disguising the theft of personal data and funds as holiday giveaways.

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Phishing Scam Exposes Vulnerabilities of SMS-based Two-Factor Authentication

The vulnerability of SMS-based 2FA was highlighted when several staff members at a company experienced phishing attempts on their Twitter accounts …

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How to Protect Yourself Against AI-inspired Phishing Attacks, by Shuaib Shuaib Agaka

Recently, the National Information Technology Development Agency (NITDA) warned that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is fuelling phishing.

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'Wallet Drainers' Pillage $295 Million from 324,000 Crypto Users: Scam Sniffer

As phishing scammers continue to evolve and employ more sophisticated tactics to evade security measures, a relatively new form of malware …

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Singapore: At least 83 victims have lost RM543,000 in DBS phishing scam since the start of January

In this phishing scam variant, scammers would phish for victims' online banking usernames, passwords and one-time passwords (OTP). In most of …

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Scams via text or email: Be warned, scams still rampant in 2024 – RTL Today

The police warn of so-called phishing messages that claim to come from the CCSS or CNS: Two people were reportedly victims of a scam on Saturday.

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North Korean Hackers Intensify Cyber-espionage with New Spear-Phishing Attacks

phishing attacks. The group is known to deploy an arsenal of backdoors, including AppleSeed, TinyNuke, and Meterpreter, as brought to light by The …

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Hackers can now take control of your Google Account without needing a password. Here's …

Google is upgrading its defenses to protect users from malware and phishing attacks. Google parent Alphabet on October 24, 2023 reported a quarterly …

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New year, familiar threats: Cybersecurity experts warn of the threats to come for 2024

phishing attacks, due in part to the wider availability of powerful tools. Andrew Shikiar, the Fast Identity Online (FIDO) Alliance's executive …

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EC warns of cyberattacks – Somoy News

phishing attacks. Earlier, BGD E-Gov CIRT warned about the threat of … The hacker group is running campaigns using phishing domain names of the …

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