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Tag Archives: Email spoofing
“FINAL WARNING” email – have they really hacked your webcam?
In the last 24 hours, SophosLabs received 1,700 samples of just one new sextortion campaign. Good news? It’s all a pack of lies. Don’t reply. Don’t engage.
Beware sextortionists spoofing your own email address
In the past, they’ve pretended to have your passwords – now they’re pretending to send email from your “hacked” account, too.
This email scam targeting businesses is a billion-dollar problem, FBI warns
The FBI issued a warning last week about email scams that have cost businesses $1.2 billion in fraudulent wire transfers since 2013. “Nigerian Prince” scams these are not…
Beyond “fake invoice” scams – crooks can get money out of real invoices, too!
If I told you to change your record of a supplier’s bank account so I got all the payments, would you do so? 1000s of companies did, and didn’t spot the misdirected payments until an average of $100,000 had gone west…
AOL Mail accounts breached, users advised to change passwords
AOL users, change your passwords. AOL said it is investigating a large-scale breach of AOL Mail accounts in which user passwords, security questions, mail addresses, and contact lists were compromised.