- FTC Links Social Media Scams To Targeted Ads
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Sunday, October 8, 2023
Many reported social-media scams begin with an ad on Facebook or Instagra ...
- Robert Downey Jr. Combats Online Crime In 'What Are The Odds?'
MAD, Fern Siegel - Wednesday, October 4, 2023
There is a 1 in 4 chance of Americans falling victim ...
- Bottom Dwelling Bots: They're Under Water And Hard To Detect
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Monday, October 2, 2023
Over 70% of phishing attacks cannot be seen in advance, Egress repo ...
- Enterprise Entropy: Large Firms Face Metric And Fraud Display Ad Challenges
Publishing Insider, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Advertisers list click-through rates as their chief metric, OMI and Ascend2 rep ...
- 22% Of All Digital Ad Spend, 30% Of Mobile Lost To Ad Fraud In 2023, Claims New Report
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Ad fraud will leap 105%, from $84 billion in 2023 to $1 ...
- Click Fraud Encroached On Programmatic Advertising In Q2: Study
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, August 30, 2023
A fifth of all invalid clicks on mobile apps are now generat ...
- Trend Micro Says It Helped Interpol Take Down Phishing Operation
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, August 14, 2023
16shop allegedly supported phishing attacks on over 70,000 victims in 43 countr ...
- New Tool Determines Whether Email Attacks Were Generated By AI
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Abnormal Security offers a product for thwarting business email compromise attacks. ...
- Salesforce Flaw Allows Bad Actors To Masquerade As Meta In Emails
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, August 2, 2023
Phishing artists are running a sophisticated Facebook phishing campaign exploiting a zero-day fl ...
- Confidence Game: Few Consumers Totally Trust Brands With Their Data
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Over half of U.S. consumers have suffered data loss, identity theft ...
- Phishing Emails Pretend They're From HR
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, July 28, 2023
Phishing emails masquerading as HR-related emails purport to discuss dress codes, holida ...
- Hackers And Phishing Artists Use AI For Brand Ends
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Friday, July 21, 2023
Hackers and other bad actors are using AI to create malicious softwar ...
- ImmuniWeb Offers Free Email Security Tests
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, July 6, 2023
Phishing tests almost doubled from last year, Proofpoint reports. ...
- Firm Seeks To Fight AI-Generated BEC Attacks
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, July 3, 2023
Perception Point combines large language models and deep-learning architecture. ...
- Piracy Subscription Purchases Often Lead To Additional Fraud: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Most people who paid for a pirate subscription by credit card h ...
- Google Files Lawsuit Over Fake Review Scams
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, June 16, 2023
Google reported that alleged scammers created 350 fraudulent business profiles and mo ...
- Gen AI Can Create Flawlessly Written Phishing Emails
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Threat actors are leveraging Gen AI tools to send persuasive email attack ...
- Most SMBs Have Suffered A Cyber Attack, Study Finds
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, June 13, 2023
The worst effects of cyberattacks for small businesses were business downtime a ...
- Scammers Are Faking Gmail's Blue Checkmarks
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Monday, June 12, 2023
Gmail’s blue checkmarks have been successfully faked. Here is a report ...
- NewsGuard To Track AI-Generated Misinformation
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, June 8, 2023
NewsGuard has identified 150 low-quality "Unrelated AI-Generated News" sites, it says. ...
- Brevo Dumps Email Sender Misusing Its Service
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, June 1, 2023
Fake Sam's Club messages attempted to swindle consumers. ...
- Phony Sam's Club Email Offers Free Products To Consumers Who Take A Survey
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, May 26, 2023
Consumers who click on the survey link can be charged monthly fe ...
- Deconstructing A Predatory Marketplace
Media Insider, Gord Hotchkiss - Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Perhaps one of the winners in the fraudulent ecosystem that spawned predato ...
- Gmail, Outlook Users Warned: Delete These Emails
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Monday, May 8, 2023
Gmail and Outlook are urging consumers to delete emails that ask th ...
- Email Scam Artists Send Fake Delta Air Lines Messages
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, May 4, 2023
Scammers have sent fake Delta Air Lines emails, asking consumers to fi ...
- Google Blocked 1.43 Million Bad Apps In 2022
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Monday, May 1, 2023
Google blocked 1.43 million bad apps from being published in the Play Sto ...
- $142.8 Billion In Revenue Lost To Fake Traffic In 2022
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, March 17, 2023
CHEQ research shows that more than 40% of all traffic online ...
- FTC Eyes Social Platforms Over Scam Ads
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 9, 2023
The FTC will vote next week on whether to demand information abo ...
- Facebook Immune From Suit Over Scam Ads, Company Tells Appeals Court
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 16, 2023
"To the extent plaintiffs were defrauded by advertisers on Facebook, their quarr ...
- Consumers Targeted More For Refund And Tech Support Scams
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, February 10, 2023
Victims may be lured into setting up a remote connection that ope ...