PYMNTS

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

Quartz reported that the site Rambler was targeted by hacks dating back to 2012, and as a result, roughly 98 million accounts were compromised. Fraudsters are posing as PayPal’s own customer service representatives on Twitter in order to perpetrate phishing attacks against unsuspecting PayPal users. Scammers Are Just A Tweet Away.

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Phishing Breach PayPal Database 41

PYMNTS

FEBRUARY 20, 2020

ZeroFOX was co-founded by five entrepreneurs — Chris Cullison, Evan Blair, Hillary Herlehy, James Foster and Robert Francis — and rebranded from the name Riskive in early 2013. But for many service providers, achieving one can often mean compromising the other.

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Phishing Cybersecurity Compromise Risk 52

PYMNTS

MAY 30, 2018

To get access to the email accounts, the hacker used spear phishing attacks and fake emails to trick people into providing sensitive information. In October Yahoo announced that it now believes a 2013 security breach exposed all 3 billion of its users at the time. Initially, Yahoo announced that 1 billion accounts had been compromised.

Identity Theft 44

Identity Theft Breach Phishing Scams 44

PYMNTS

MAY 2, 2017

In other news of note from the Facebook space, it recently came to light that the social media giant, along with Google, were the heretofore unnamed victims of a combined $100 million phishing attack earlier this year. billion in attempted wire fraud between October 2013 and May 2016. At the end of March , the U.S.

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Business Email Compromise Email Compromise Scams Phishing 43

Stax

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Secure transactions ensure you can maintain a trustworthy reputation with past and future customers, as well as reducing the financial losses that come from the fines and legal fees associated with compromising customer data. One of the most famous data breaches happened to Target in 2013.

Credit Cards 88

Credit Cards Small Business Process Security 88

PYMNTS

MAY 27, 2016

I was reminded yesterday in my digital discussion with the CEO of Forter, Michael Reitblat, that 83 percent of the fraud attacks last year were the result of botnets, besting some of the more “tried and true” tactics like account takeovers and phishing. Keith Alexander reiterated that this past year.

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SWIFT Bitcoin Online and Mobile Banking ATM 43

Fintech Labs Insights

DECEMBER 14, 2016

” Company facts: Founded in August 2013. These risks include credential compromise, MITM attacks and phishing attacks, all while also reducing the overall attack surface for the enterprise. That communication was between that app and your authentication server directly – all on a tightly integrated secure channel.”

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Authentication Credential Security Phishing 15

PYMNTS

DECEMBER 7, 2018

The scope of the scam comes courtesy of cyber threat detection firm Agari, which has said the group, London Blue, seeks to ply its trade through the business email compromise (BEC) effort. Doing so gives it the attack volume of a mass spam campaign, but with the target-specific customization of spear-phishing attacks.”

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Scams Credit Cards Email Compromise Business Email Compromise 68