It is my belief that if you are planning a crime, you might as well go for the glory. The jail time is the same whether you steal $50,000 or $50 million.
I’m not sure if this is the biggest phishing scam ever, but it is the biggest I’ve heard of. A Lithuanian man named Evaldas Rimasaukas devised a scheme that extracted over $100 million from Google and Facebook. He achieved this feat ...
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Identity theft is a crime that can take years to recover from. One of the early problems for an identity theft victim has been the requirement to file a police report. Many police departments do not devote much effort to identity theft, so sometimes getting the police to actually create a report and provide you with a report number can difficult. If ...
Identity theft can be devastating, and painfully hard to resolve. It can have negative effects on your credit rating. It could result in you being arrested for an open warrant on charges for a crime committed by the person who is using your identity. Identity theft occurs in different ways. Sometimes is is part of an online scam that may start with ...
When I am training a room full of computer users about how to detect a phishing email, one of the detection methods is using the “hover trick” on a link to reveal the actual web address and destination. Or, if you have already clicked through, to look at the URL or web address as it is displayed in the address box ...
It has been a couple of weeks since the Google Docs hoax spread across the Internet like wildfire. What have we learned about this exploit?
Originally this appeared to be a phishing campaign, but phishing emails are spoofed clever replicas. These emails were the genuine article, and were sent from Google mail servers, from the hijacked Google accounts of people you were likely to know. This made the exploit difficult to ...
Continue Reading →What if there was a new phishing scam that had an open rate of 90%. That’s right, this phishing email is so believable, 90 out of 100 recipients open the the attachment or click on the link without a second thought.
These attacks begin with the scammer researching the target victim. These targets usually work at companies where there is a lot of air ...
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I will be the featured speaker at an event sponsored by First State Bank and Trust of Bayport, MN. The date is Tuesday May 23rd, 2017 from 6:00 pm to 7:15 pm. The location is Phipps Center For the Arts,109 Locust Street, Hudson, WI 54016
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A new exploit is using Microsoft Office documents to deliver malware. This is different from the reanimated macro exploits. If this exploit, the target will receive an Office document, such as a Word file, as an email attachment. Opening the attachment causes a malicious HTML application to be downloaded from the attackers C2 server. This is executed as an .hta file, disguised as an RTF file. The result is the ...
We heard about a new twist all the Income Tax refund scam that is popular with cyber-criminals this time of year. A March 27th email from the Minnesota Society of CPAs, warns about a scam that is appearing on the east coast, but could spread anywhere in the US.
Continue Reading →“…the email scam claims a tax preparer has been victimized [or breached] and asks users to open a ...
Almost all cyber-crime is about making money for the crooks. Often this involves stealing valuable information that can be sold. But many criminal gangs are going straight for the cash, and often this involves bank and financial account fraud or financial account access.
Below we have a list of strategies you can use to protect your financial resources.