Investment fraud a serious money maker for criminals

Europols’s spotlight report ‘Online fraud schemes: a web of deceit’, looks into online fraud schemes—a major crime threat in the EU and beyond—and one of the reports primary themes is investment fraud. But first I want to share some more remarkable conclusions from the report: Charity scams that...

How To Handle Evolutions in Cybercrime

Cybercriminals are Evolving Attackers are constantly evolving their techniques—finding ways to evade your defenses and stay in your systems longer. Today, 68% of attacks remain undetected for months or more. Traditional antivirus AV can’t hold up against the modern hacker. New attacks, like...

FBI: BEC Scam Losses Almost Double To Reach $1.2 Billion

Business email compromise BEC scams are squeezing more money than ever out of victims, with losses from the attacks almost doubling year-over-year in 2018 to reach $1.2 billion. That’s according to the FBI’s annual Internet Crime Report IC3 for 2018, which records the number of complaints, losses...