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People targeted by confidence schemes find getting help is a lonely road. Experts want law enforcement, financial, and government institutions to work together and protect them.
Though Adidas said that no payment or financial information was affected in the breach, individuals who contacted the compamy's customer service help desk were impacted.
With an increase in cyber-physical attacks that can cause significant disruptions, financial fallout and safety concerns for victim organizations, Renee Guttmann and Marc Sachs discuss why IT and OT security teams cannot keep working in silos.
A ransomware attack has become a supply chain issue, thanks to the victim's partnerships with other financial services companies.
Greater collaboration between financial and law enforcement officials is needed to dismantle cybercrime scam centers in Cambodia, Laos, and Myanmar, which rake in tens of billions of dollars annually — and affect victims worldwide.
Researchers went in-depth on an attack by the threat group, which mainly targets US companies in the education and industrial goods sectors, specifically to maximize financial gain.
The company reports that customers based in Chile, Spain, and Uruguay were the primary victims of the breach, alongside some former employees of the global bank.
With a complex attack chain and using Telegram for its command and control, CoralRaider targets victims in Asian countries — and appears to have accidentally infected itself as well.
The text messages threaten fines if the victims don't provide personal and financial details.
The impact of fraud on a victim's health and well-being can be more painful than the financial loss.
A consumer finance journalist and television personality took to Twitter to warn his followers about advertisements using his name and face to scam victims.
Attackers are leveraging well-executed brand impersonation in a Google ads malvertising effort that collects both credit card and bank details from victims.
AT&T, PayPal, and Microsoft top the list of domains that victims visit following a link in a phishing email, as firms fight to prevent fraud and credential harvesting.
Cybercriminals are co-opting the identities of legitimate US financial advisers to use them as fodder for relationship scams (aka "pig butchering"), which end with the theft of investments.
Attackers have compromised a Colombian financial institution and are using a bevy of leaked customer details in further malicious activity to spread an info-gathering remote access Trojan (RAT).
The decentralized finance (DeFi) platform was the victim of an exploit for a partner's vulnerable code — highlighting a challenging cybersecurity environment in the sector.
Bronze Starlight’s use of multiple ransomware families and its victim-targeting suggest there’s more to the group’s activities than just financial gain, security vendor says.