Search Results for: Payment Fraud Blog Post Beware of New POS Attack, Warned Visa January 12, 2020 Recently, Visa has discovered 3 separate attacks targeting gas station and hospitality merchant’s point of sale systems since the summer... Page Business email compromise attacks (BEC) April 2, 2019 Phishing is the main ingredient of most cyberattacks and successful data breaches. Human factor is still among the most difficult... Page LIFARS Cyber Security Forensics Services and Forensic Review Process February 13, 2019 Blog Post Student Faces 20 Years in Prison for Pandemic Puppy Scam January 18, 2022 While the pandemic might have brought the rest of the world to a standstill, cybercriminals and threat actors thrived. As... Blog Post The Plight of Fake Android Apps for Crypto Mining Services That Steal Money August 20, 2021 Cryptocurrency enthusiasts are being cautioned worldwide to be wary of Android apps that promise to mine Bitcoins over the cloud.... Blog Post Zero-days in Accellion file transfer app used for data theft March 4, 2021 Back in December 2020, a software vendor Accellion informed about an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in its File Transfer Appliance... Blog Post Operational and Cyber Risks in the Financial Sector April 21, 2020 According to Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (2003), Operational risk is defined as the risk of losses resulting from inadequate... Blog Post Increase in Extortionate Emails – USSS Information Alert May 1, 2020 The United States Secret Service has recently observed an increase in extortion email scams. These are not necessarily new methods... Blog Post Do you know the Debit Card Is The Least Secure Way To Pay? January 4, 2020 According to the Federal Reserves’ 2019 Federal Reserve Payments Study, the total card payments in 2018 had 131.2 billion transactions... Blog Post Fake Amazon Representatives Caused Phone Scam in England January 29, 2020 Scammers in England set up a complex hoax, pretending to be Amazon representatives and called up Amazon users. They claimed... Blog Post Hackers File Fake Tax Returns To Steal IRS Refunds April 14, 2020 The number of attempted IRS scams tends to increase every year in March and April in the U.S., as legions... Blog Post Americans Unconcerned About Data Security During Covid-19 Era July 16, 2020 In this article we will cover the following topics: Citizens lack awareness of cyber security despite growing number of attacks ... Blog Post Europol: Ransomware Attacks are a “Global Epidemic’ September 29, 2017 Europol’s premier policy agency has underlined the growing threat of ransomware attacks as an “epidemic”. In its latest annual report... Blog Post AT&T Employees Plant Malware in Exchange For Money August 8, 2019 Two men bribed several AT&T employees to install installed malware and unauthorized devices on the company’s network in their phone... Knowledge Center FBI Releases the Internet Crime Complaint Center Internet Crime Report July 7, 2019 The statistics gathered by the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) for 2018 show Internet-enabled theft, fraud, and exploitation remain...
Blog Post Beware of New POS Attack, Warned Visa January 12, 2020 Recently, Visa has discovered 3 separate attacks targeting gas station and hospitality merchant’s point of sale systems since the summer...
Page Business email compromise attacks (BEC) April 2, 2019 Phishing is the main ingredient of most cyberattacks and successful data breaches. Human factor is still among the most difficult...
Blog Post Student Faces 20 Years in Prison for Pandemic Puppy Scam January 18, 2022 While the pandemic might have brought the rest of the world to a standstill, cybercriminals and threat actors thrived. As...
Blog Post The Plight of Fake Android Apps for Crypto Mining Services That Steal Money August 20, 2021 Cryptocurrency enthusiasts are being cautioned worldwide to be wary of Android apps that promise to mine Bitcoins over the cloud....
Blog Post Zero-days in Accellion file transfer app used for data theft March 4, 2021 Back in December 2020, a software vendor Accellion informed about an actively exploited zero-day vulnerability in its File Transfer Appliance...
Blog Post Operational and Cyber Risks in the Financial Sector April 21, 2020 According to Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (2003), Operational risk is defined as the risk of losses resulting from inadequate...
Blog Post Increase in Extortionate Emails – USSS Information Alert May 1, 2020 The United States Secret Service has recently observed an increase in extortion email scams. These are not necessarily new methods...
Blog Post Do you know the Debit Card Is The Least Secure Way To Pay? January 4, 2020 According to the Federal Reserves’ 2019 Federal Reserve Payments Study, the total card payments in 2018 had 131.2 billion transactions...
Blog Post Fake Amazon Representatives Caused Phone Scam in England January 29, 2020 Scammers in England set up a complex hoax, pretending to be Amazon representatives and called up Amazon users. They claimed...
Blog Post Hackers File Fake Tax Returns To Steal IRS Refunds April 14, 2020 The number of attempted IRS scams tends to increase every year in March and April in the U.S., as legions...
Blog Post Americans Unconcerned About Data Security During Covid-19 Era July 16, 2020 In this article we will cover the following topics: Citizens lack awareness of cyber security despite growing number of attacks ...
Blog Post Europol: Ransomware Attacks are a “Global Epidemic’ September 29, 2017 Europol’s premier policy agency has underlined the growing threat of ransomware attacks as an “epidemic”. In its latest annual report...
Blog Post AT&T Employees Plant Malware in Exchange For Money August 8, 2019 Two men bribed several AT&T employees to install installed malware and unauthorized devices on the company’s network in their phone...
Knowledge Center FBI Releases the Internet Crime Complaint Center Internet Crime Report July 7, 2019 The statistics gathered by the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) for 2018 show Internet-enabled theft, fraud, and exploitation remain...
