Reaching an all-new low, an international team of individuals setup an elaborate online scam taking advantage of the current need for healthcare equipment to fight COVID-19. Just when you think scammers can’t get any worse, you hear about a multi-national scam team intent on taking money from healthcare organizations in their time of most critical […]
“File Deletion” Alert Becomes the Latest Scam to Compromise Office 365 Credentials
Attackers use simple cause for concern as the basis of a scam intent on tricking victims into offering up their Office 365 credentials. A very official-looking email is making the rounds, taking advantage of the approximately 50% of companies today using Office 365. And it’s not surprising, as Microsoft is the most impersonated brand in […]
Extortion Threatens Reputational Damage
Scammers are sending emails threatening to damage the reputation of websites unless the sites’ owners hand over 0.3 bitcoin, or around $2,400, according to BleepingComputer. The attackers say that they’ll send out billions of spam emails to millions of email addresses and websites. All of these emails will be spoofed to appear as though they’re […]
Phishing Canadian Targets
We have recently blogged about KrebsOnSecurity’s story on compromised Canadian business email addresses. Here is some updated background on threats to Canadian organizations. Since January 2019, nearly one hundred phishing campaigns have been tailored specifically for Canadian targets, according to researchers at Proofpoint. Attackers are spoofing a number of well-known Canadian companies and organizations, and […]
Scam Of The Week: CEO Fraud bad guys are now bribing your users
Today saw the arrival of yet another interesting variant of the gift card phishing campaigns that have grown into a deluge over the past few months (see below). Today’s email demonstrates that bad guys are actively adapting and evolving their pitch. There are couple interesting things going in this new gift card phish: 1. The […]