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The Threatpost team breaks down the strangest security stories this week – from Cartoon Network hacked to show stripper videos, to a church being scammed out of $1.75 million. Continue reading News Wrap: Cartoon Network Hack, the Catholic Church and Jason Statham Scams
What’s the worst that can happen if you join a Hollywood hard man’s Facebook page? What drove a man to hijack a website’s name at gunpoint? And can you solve the mystery of the Canadian Hamburglar?
Find out in the award-winning “… Continue reading Smashing Security #126: Zombie chickens and fast-food victims
An Ohio parish lost a whopping $1.75 million after attackers breached two employees’ email accounts – and then tricked other employees into sending wire transfers to a fraudulent bank account. Continue reading BEC Hack Cons Catholic Church Out of $1.75 Million
Nine men have been arrested in the United States in connection with a string of scams that allegedly netted them a cool US $3.5 million.
Continue reading Nine men arrested in United States for stealing millions through business email compromise and romance scams
Fraudsters hacked into email system, and tricked church staff into believing that a construction company’s bank account details had changed.
Continue reading Hackers steal $1.75 million from Catholic church in Ohio
Overall, in 2018 the FBI received more than 351k reported scams with losses exceeding $2.7 billion. Continue reading FBI: BEC Scam Losses Almost Double To Reach $1.2 Billion
Business email compromise group London Blue is back with evolved email domain spoofing tactics and a newfound interest in targets in Asia. Continue reading BEC Scam Gang London Blue Evolves Tactics, Targets
Phishing has come a long way from the days when it most often involved cybercriminals urging people to provide personal details in exchange for lottery winnings or other incentives. Those attacks still occur, but they’ve gotten more advanced. It… Continue reading Can Victims of Phishing Scams Be Fired for Falling Prey?
Large, worldly tech companies would never fall for a wire transfer invoice scam, would they? Continue reading Scammer pleads guilty to fleecing Facebook and Google of $121m
Even the most tech savvy companies in the world can fall for business email compromise.
A Lithuanian man has this week pleaded guilty to tricking Google and Facebook into transferring over $100 million into a bank account under his control after posing… Continue reading Google and Facebook scammed out of $123 million by man posing as hardware vendor