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Researcher scams fake tech support scammer, infects scammer’s PC with Locky ransomware

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Business email scams have led to $2.3 billion losses via rogue wire transfers

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Over the past two and a half years, cybercriminals have managed to steal over $ 2.3 billion from thousands of companies worldwide by using little more than carefully crafted scam emails.

Known as business email compromise (BEC), CEO fraud or whaling, this type of attack involves criminals impersonating an organization’s chief executive officer, or some other high-ranking manager, and instructing employees via email to initiate rogue wire transfers.

According to an alert issued earlier this week by the FBI, between October 2013 and February 2016, 17,642 organizations from the U.S. and 79 other countries have fallen victim to BEC attacks. The combined losses amount to over $ 2.3 billion, the agency said.

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10 Worst Online Scams and How to Avoid Them – Tom’s Guide

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Tom’s Guide

10 Worst Online Scams and How to Avoid Them
Tom’s Guide
To avoid this type of scam, you could buy a legitimate copy of the game. But that won't protect you from malware that targets honest gamers, such as the botnet that infected a Twitch chatroom, or the ransomware that locked up PC gamers' files. To stop …

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Government data breach exposes millions to scams – Allentown Morning Call

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Allentown Morning Call

Government data breach exposes millions to scams
Allentown Morning Call
If you received a letter recently about a data breach at the federal government but were too busy around the holidays to deal with it immediately, take a close look at it before you do anything. While there was a massive data breach at the Office of …

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