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Many more healthcare companies impacted by the AMCA data breach published press releases last week (the same press release) to notify customers. [Read More]
Researchers discover a new malware framework that managed to gather over one billion fraudulent ad impressions in the past three months. [Read More]
Microsoft says it has detected more than 740 infiltration attempts by nation-state actors in the past year targeting U.S.-based political parties, campaigns and other democracy-focused organizations. [Read More]
Hackers accessed the accounts of Sprint customers via a Samsung website, but it does not appear that they actually breached Sprint or Samsung systems. [Read More]
A recently identified adware campaign has gathered over 9 million downloads via 111 infected applications distributed through Google Play. [Read More]
A threat group has been targeting mobile and desktop users in Libya with malware through Facebook pages. [Read More]
A former Equifax executive who sold stock a week and a half before the company announced a massive data breach was sentenced Thursday to serve four months in federal prison for insider trading. [Read More]
Two U.S. senators asked the FBI on Wednesday to explain what it has done to investigate the suspected hack by Russian intelligence of a Florida-based voting software company before the 2016 election. [Read More]
After Quest Diagnostics announced that the details of 12 million patients were exposed in a breach at AMCA, LabCorp has come forward to say that the incident also hit 7.7 million of its customers. [Read More]
A breach at billing collections service provider American Medical Collection Agency (AMCA) could impact many of its customers. One victim is Quest Diagnostics and 12 million of its patients. [Read More]
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FEATURES, INSIGHTS // Fraud & Identity Theft
Organizations may not be able to mitigate BEC scams entirely; however, tightening up processes will ensure data exposure is kept to a minimum.
The abundance of compromised card data and other assets available online continues to hinder the fight against card-not-present (CNP) fraud.
Even organizations with the most robust defense solutions and advanced automated technologies cannot effectively combat threats such as BEC without the adequate support and nuanced expertise of humans.
While a credit freeze can protect against the opening of fraudulent credit accounts, it is not an inoculation against identity theft. What can be done to help protect identities and the attributes associated with them?
The attackers may be looking for the path of least resistance, but there is no shortcut to securing your platform.
In addition to basic credit monitoring, breached companies need to get ahead of the attacks and start providing security solutions that actually protect the victims before they are victimized again.
While effective at curbing “petty crimes” such as credit skimming / cloning, EMV does not address more sophisticated cyber-attacks that target backend systems which contain card holders’ most sensitive information.
Many fraudulent accounts are mere satire or innocuous trolling, but others are created with far more devious intentions.
Social engineering attacks can happen at any time. Here are some strategies you can use to help reduce the chances of a successful social engineering/phishing attack you or your organization.
They always say in the investment world that cash is king. We are now seeing that in terms of cyber as well. Stealing cash, it’s even better than stealing money.
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