- Ransomware Payments Doubled In Q4 2019: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, January 27, 2020
Firms are being threatened by a "diversity of threat actors," and n ...
- New Malware Scam Pretends To Be Greta Thunberg Invite: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, January 20, 2020
The bad actors send emails containing fake invites to a Greta Thunbe ...
- Subject Lines That Swindle: Examples From Q4
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, January 16, 2020
LinkedIn and Facebook were the social channels most likely to be click ...
- Email Stealth Attacks: New Ways Of Breaching Legacy Systems
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Security providers have failed to block dangerous emails, INKY asserts in ...
- Scholar Scam: Phishing Artists Prey On Academics
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Thursday, January 9, 2020
The cost worldwide of even dealing with these spam emails exceeds ...
- Special Olympics Email Hacked, Phishing Campaign Launched
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, January 3, 2020
The phishing email stated that $1,942.49 was about to be debited fr ...
- Ad Threats Becoming Massive Data Security Problem
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, December 31, 2019
The Devcon 2019 Holiday Threat Report provides insights into what advertisers c ...
- Big-Money Email Scams Took Over In The Past 10 Years
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Friday, December 27, 2019
Email scammers have moved on from Nigerian Prince shakedowns and other frau ...
- BEC Scams Pull In $3 Billion Since 2016: BBB
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, December 26, 2019
The BBB reports that business email compromise scams have cost businesses a ...
- Man Sentenced For Email Scam That Defrauded Facebook, Google
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Lithuanian citizen Evaldas Rimasauskas must also forfeit almost $50 million and p ...
- Less Malware But More Email Criminality In 2020: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, December 23, 2019
U.S. presidential campaigns might be hacked by felons in foreign countries, Aga ...
- Alleged Email Scam Artists Busted in Vegas
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Friday, December 20, 2019
Five people were arrested in Las Vegas for allegedly running an ema ...
- Spam Scam Wham: Email And Phone Are The Main Delivery Channels, Study Asserts
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, December 18, 2019
But few spam and scam messages are received by text, a Zipwh ...
- Consumers Alerted About Email Gift Card Scam
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, December 10, 2019
Ohio residents are being warned about a phishing scam in which th ...
- Hackers Steal $1 Million In Venture Funding From Chinese VC Firm, Using Email
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, December 9, 2019
The attacker created look-alike domains for the Chinese VC firm and t ...
- Killing Black Friday: Security Firm Warns Of Holiday Email Scams
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, November 27, 2019
One bad actor is offering an 80% discount on Ray-Bans, Check Poi ...
- Major Vulnerability Found In Google, Samsung Phones: Lets Hackers Take Pictures, Record Voices
Digital News Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, November 20, 2019
The vulnerability, which lets hackers take pictures and listen in on conversation ...
- Study Finds 'Fake News' Has Real Cost: $78 Billion
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Brands lose about $235 million annually from unknowingly running ads alongside fa ...
- Employee Who Fell For Phishing Scam Not Liable, Court Says
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Friday, November 15, 2019
An employee who paid out £200,000 in response to a phishing email h ...
- Conservative Firm Stops Using Google Ads To Snare Email Addresses: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, November 11, 2019
People who signed up through DedicatedEmails.com received offers for miracle health cure ...
- Consumers Warned: Don't Be Scammed By Fake Santas
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, November 7, 2019
Scam artists are exploiting the festive holiday season to defraud consumers, t ...
- Agari Adds BEC Protections, Integrates Tools With Microsoft
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, November 6, 2019
The new moves are designed to prevent payroll diversion, CEO spoofing a ...
- Identity Theft Email Attacks Rose In Third Quarter, Study Finds
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, November 1, 2019
While identity theft attacks rose, attacks from hijacked email accounts fell slightl ...
- Email Extortion Is Exploding, Study Says
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, October 24, 2019
Cryptocurrency email extortion is on the rise, according to a study present ...
- Data Shows More Then Half Of Google Searches Lead Shoppers To Fake Goods
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Monday, October 21, 2019
The findings suggest Google puts consumers at risk of buying fake electroni ...
- First Lady's Name Hijacked For Scam Email
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, October 21, 2019
The email says Mrs. Trump prefers SMS communications "because I am alwa ...
- You've Heard Of BEC Attacks: Watch Out For VEC
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Vendor email compromise attacks are designed to get victims to pay fraudule ...
- BBB Sees BEC Boom: U.S. Firms Lost $750.3 Million In First Five Months Of 2019
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, September 27, 2019
BEC fraud has tripled over the last three years, jumping 50% ...
- Match.com Duped Subscribers, Exposed Them To Scammers, FTC Alleges
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, September 25, 2019
Between 2013 and mid-2018, up to 30% of people who registered ...
- New Phishing Campaign Promises IRS Tax Refund
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Friday, September 20, 2019
Phishing emails that say they’re from the IRS urge recipients to cli ...