The good news is that if scammers are having to use techniques like this to get in front of potential victims, anti-spam defences and user awareness about email scams must be better than ever. The bad news is that if such letters continue to be sent, someone somewhere obviously thinks scams like this can still make them a tidy profit.
Uh-oh… someone didn’t lock their Zoom meeting down properly. That’s probably particularly important when the person charged is an alleged hacker.
Special guest Geoff White can’t resist using the podcast to promote his new book, “Crime Dot Com”, but other than that we also discuss the creepy (and apparently legal) way websites can find out your email and postal address even if you don’t give it to them, take a look at how the alleged Twitter hackers were identified, and learn about Fawkes – the technology fighting back at facial recognition.
Anti-malware testing lab AV-Comparatives carries out intensive tests of security software, and has just published its long-term test report into the performance of business anti-virus products, taking a close look 19 products designed to defend enterprises from malware attack.
What’s a phone spear phishing attack? Twitter shares some more details related to its serious security breach earlier this month which saw celebrity accounts tweeting a cryptocurrency scam.
Zoom has patched a security hole that could have allowed attackers to break their way into password-protected private calls. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
Why are students faking their own kidnappings? What’s the story behind Garmin’s ransomware attack? And a genetic genealogy website suffers a hack or two. All this and much more is discussed in the latest edition of the award-winning “Smashing Security” podcast by computer security veterans Graham Cluley and Carole Theriault, joined this week by Ray REDACTED.
A critical vulnerability in a third-party comments plugin installed on over 70,000 websites running WordPress could allow hackers to execute malicious code remotely. If you’re using the wpDIscuz commenting plugin, make sure you’ve kept it up to date – or your website might be hijacked… or wiped. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) found itself very publicly tussling with a hacker on its Twitter account this morning.
One of Ireland’s largest banks, Bank of Ireland, has been fined almost €1.7 million after regulators discovered it had failed to inform financial regulators and the police after a fraudster tricked them into transferring funds from a client’s account. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
If you searched on Google for details of your nearest train station in parts of New York state, you might be in for a rude surprise.
Garmin’s online services are beginning to come back to life after it was hit badly by ransomware last week. But did it pay a ransom to its attackers or not?
As Twitter and law enforcement agencies investigate the high profile attack against Twitter accounts, there is a clear lesson for other businesses to learn. Read more in my article on the Bitdefender Business Insights blog.
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Garmin, the wearable tech company famous for its GPS fitness trackers and activity smartwatches, is suffering a global outage – and ransomware appears to be to blame.
Who wouldn’t want the latest and greatest iPhone for free? Well, if you’re a security researcher then you might be able to get just that…
