Category: Security
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Unveiling the Threats: How BrandShield Fights Summer Scams Targeting Travelers
Unveil threats targeting summer travelers. Join BrandShield’s battle against scammers, ensuring secure getaways. Explore insights, protect your adventure, and trust their shield for blissful escapes.
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Financial Commission Warns of Copycat Domain
Recently, the Financial Commission, a prominent industry-specific dispute resolution service, has issued a warning regarding a copycat domain, finsreg.com. This alarming incident highlights the dangers of similar fake domain names and the potential risks they pose to unsuspecting users. In this article, we will delve into the details of the situation and explore how individuals…
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Canada’s Energy giant faced with a cyberattack
Canadian oil giant Suncor has been hit by a major cyberattack, resulting in widespread outages that disrupted services over the weekend. The incident, which affected Petro-Canada gas stations across multiple cities in Canada, underscores the growing threat of cybercrime in critical industries.
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Contractor recruitment fraud: How to protect your agency
Contractor recruitment fraud is a long-running scam that preys on temporary work agencies, and unfortunately, it’s still thriving in 2023. Fraudsters posing as legitimate clients and contractors work together to defraud recruitment agencies out of thousands of pounds, sometimes even reaching six-figure values
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Cybersecurity Awareness for Tourists: Tips for Safe Online Booking
The tourism industry is a lucrative target for cybercriminals who seek to obtain and sell stolen travel points, hotel rewards, and airline credentials. According to a report by Check Point Research, the rise of global and regional threat actors targeting online travel and hospitality customers is alarming.
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SLP Vulnerability Unleashes DDoS Attacks with Amplification Factor of 2200x
DDoS attacks have been a problem for years, but a new vulnerability in the Service Location Protocol (SLP) could enable massive attacks with an amplification factor of up to 2200X. In this article, we’ll explain how DDoS attacks work, what SLP is, and how to mitigate the SLP vulnerability.
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New phishing attack method targets QuickBooks and PayPal
Hackers are resorting to novel phishing attacks by using rogue QuickBooks and PayPal accounts, as traditional business email compromise (BEC) attacks become harder to carry out. Researchers have found that hackers are signing up for QuickBooks and PayPal accounts for free and sending thousands of phoney invoices to mid-level managers and purchasing people, as well…
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International Law Enforcement Agencies Shut Down Genesis Market
A coalition of international law enforcement agencies, led by the FBI in the United States and the Dutch National Police, have coordinated the takedown of Genesis Market, a major online criminal marketplace that offered packages of stolen credentials for sale to cybercriminals. Genesis Market facilitated cybercrime by advertising and selling stolen access credentials used to…
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Indian Court Restrains Getmyuni Education Services Pvt Ltd
The Dwarka Court in Delhi has issued a restraining order against Getmyuni Education Services Pvt Ltd, a startup that claims to be education technology-based. The order restrains the company from using the name, information and details of Usha Martin University from Jharkhand and Mangalyatan University from Uttar Pradesh on its website.
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Code in the name of core developers behind Bitcoin, sold as NFT
Luke Dashjr, one of the core developers behind Bitcoin recently took to Twitter to express his concerns regarding a NFT. He discovered that someone has created and sold an NFT featuring his code without his knowledge or consent.
