KnowBe4

JUNE 21, 2022

The US FBI has warned that scammers on LinkedIn are a “significant threat,” CNBC reports. Sean Ragan, the FBI’s special agent in charge of the San Francisco and Sacramento field offices, told CNBC in an interview that cryptocurrency scams have been particularly widespread recently.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 21, 2021

One of the oldest scams around — the fake job interview that seeks only to harvest your personal and financial data — is on the rise, the FBI warns. Gwin said LinkedIn told him roughly 100 people applied before the phony ads were removed for abusing the company’s terms of service.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In August, KrebsOnSecurity warned that scammers were contacting people and asking them to unleash ransomware inside their employer’s network, in exchange for a percentage of any ransom amount paid by the victim company. Apparently, Mr. Krebson is a clout-chasing monger. A love letter from the founder of the ill-fated Sociogram.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 10, 2022

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) issued a public warning in June 2022 about a new kind of fraud involving remote work and deepfakes. The FBI’s warning. These fraudsters frequently use ill-gotten PII to create synthetic images and videos to apply for work-at-home positions. The making of Deepfakes.

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