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Cryptohack Roundup: It's Raining Phishing Scams on X

Data Breach Today

Also: Bitcoin ETP, Gamma and dYdX Attacks, 2023 Hack Stats This week, hackers ran crypto phishing scams on X accounts, the SEC approved bitcoin ETP, hackers stole $3.4

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Breach Roundup: MongoDB Blames Phishing Email for Breach

Data Breach Today

Also: Hackers Scrooge The North Face Holiday Shipments This week, MongoDB blamed a phishing email for causing unauthorized access to its corporate environment, hackers interrupted VF Corp.

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Phishing Domains Tanked After Meta Sued Freenom

Krebs on Security

The number of phishing websites tied to domain name registrar Freenom dropped precipitously in the months surrounding a recent lawsuit from social networking giant Meta , which alleged the free domain name provider has a long history of ignoring abuse complaints about phishing websites while monetizing traffic to those abusive domains.

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Feds Levy First-Ever HIPAA Fine for a Phishing Breach

Data Breach Today

Incident That Affected 35,000 Urgent Care Clinic Patients Results in $480K Fine Weeks after the Department of Health and Human Services announced its first HIPAA enforcement action in a ransomware breach, federal regulators have reached another milestone: a $480,000 settlement in a HIPAA case centered for the first time ever on a phishing attack.

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The Business Cost of Phishing

Phishing is a problem that's plagued organizations for years. IT and Security teams will tell you that they’re spending too much time and money on phishing, but what does that mean? This report quantifies the financial impacts of phishing.

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Teach a Man to Phish and He’s Set for Life

Krebs on Security

One frustrating aspect of email phishing is the frequency with which scammers fall back on tried-and-true methods that really have no business working these days. The file included in this phishing scam uses what’s known as a “right-to-left override” or RLO character.

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PayPal Phishing Scam Uses Invoices Sent Via PayPal

Krebs on Security

” A copy of the phishing message included in the PayPal.com invoice. While the phishing message attached to the invoice is somewhat awkwardly worded, there are many convincing aspects of this hybrid scam. Details of this scam were shared Wednesday with PayPal’s anti-abuse (phish@paypal.com) and media relations teams.

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