Twilio Hit with Social Engineering Smishing Scheme
We’ve explained smishing schemes before [view related posts]. Smishing is like phishing, but uses SMS texting to deliver malicious code to users’ phones, or tricks the user into visiting a malicious...
Privacy Tip #340 – Smishing Scams Reminder
The Twilio and Cloudfare smishing attacks [view related post] provide a timely reminder of how sophisticated smishing attacks are and how they can affect businesses and their customers. But threat actors...
Vishing Continues to be a Risk Worth Assessing
Phishing, Smishing, Vishing, and QRishing. All of these schemes continue to pose risk to organizations that needs to be assessed and addressed. Vishing made a strong debut during the pandemic [view...
FBI Warns of Scammers Using QR Codes
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) recently issued a warning alerting consumers that scammers are using malicious QR Codes to reroute unsuspecting customers to malicious sites to try to steal...
Privacy Tip #313 – Data Breaches Aren’t Going Away Anytime Soon
2021 is behind us. Whether that is positive or negative for you, in my world, it was another record year. A record year of data breaches. According to The Identity Theft...
Phishing, Vishing, and Smishing—Your Employees Need to Know the Newest Schemes
New dictionary words have been formed to describe online scams. Phishing, one that everyone knows by now, is when a scammer uses a pretext in an email to get someone to...