- Phony Drug Spammers Are Bypassing Spam Filters: Report
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, September 17, 2020
Bad actors are bypassing spam filters, using a new technique when promoti ...
- New Botnet Hits Premium Connected TV Platforms
Television News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, September 16, 2020
DoubleVerify says the "MultiTerra" botnet, designed to create fake ad inventory acro ...
- Equinix Targeted In A $4.5 Million Ransomware Attack
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Friday, September 11, 2020
Equinix, a data center and collection firm, has been hit by ...
- Cyber Fraud Insurance Claims Are On The Rise: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, September 11, 2020
Ransomware is the most common form of attack, but business email compromi ...
- Malvertising Scam Driven By Personalization Hits U.S. During Labor Day Weekend
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, September 8, 2020
GeoEdge's researchers on Sunday uncovered the auto-redirect attack Morphixx, which targets si ...
- TikTok Breeds Ad Scams, Pyramid Schemes, Fraudulent Celebrity Endorsements, Study Shows
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, September 3, 2020
TikTok's #ForYou page has become a haven for scammers selling fake mobi ...
- Phishing Artists Use Microsoft Logo and Dotloop Boilerplate, Retarus Says
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, September 2, 2020
The emails contain links to fake real estate contracts, with the obje ...
- Dashlane Says The Secret Word, Finds Value In A Super Bowl Buy
Brand Insider, Steve Smith - Thursday, August 27, 2020
Going into its big ad buy at the 2020 Super Bowl, passwo ...
- Fraud Follows Connected TV Boom
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, August 20, 2020
The benchmark report on the state of media quality for advertisers address ...
- Fly By Night: Airline Emails Wide Open To Cyber Fraud, Study Finds
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, August 18, 2020
Only 7% of airlines worldwide protect travelers with 'Reject,' the highest lev ...
- Google Tests Domain URLs That Aim To Help Prevent Scams, Phishing
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, August 13, 2020
Google is testing a feature that will display a website domain na ...
- Phishing Campaigns Now Target Office 365 Executive Accounts: Report
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, August 11, 2020
Researchers have seen an uptick in business email compromise attacks. Many n ...
- The Blackbaud Data Attack: Should The Company Have Paid Ransom?
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, August 7, 2020
The cloud software firm paid cyber criminals to delete data exposed ...
- Cyber Criminals Exploit COVID-19, Study Says
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, August 6, 2020
Agari reports a 3,000% increase in COVID-19-themed phishing attacks from March ...
- Consumers Are Increasingly Being Victimized Online, Study Finds
Digital News Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, August 3, 2020
Almost a quarter of all consumers had their identity stolen in 201 ...
- Finance Mobile Apps Most Exposed To Fraud, Gaming Hit By Install Hijacking
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, July 29, 2020
As mobile app demand and acquisition activity spiked in first-half 2020, fraudste ...
- Apple Co-Founder Sues YouTube Over Bitcoin Scam Videos
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Friday, July 24, 2020
Steve Wozniak says fraudsters are using his name and image in YouTu ...
- Account Hijackers Often Stay For A Week Or More, Sell Data To Other Cyber Felons
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, July 23, 2020
Phishing artists have created a specialized economy in which accounts are so ...
- Credential Attacks Targeting Media Companies On The Rise, Report Finds
Digital News Daily, Wayne Friedman - Wednesday, July 15, 2020
Sharply rising "credential stuffing attacks" in 2019 were directed at media companie ...
- COVID-19 Is The Most Popular Email Subject In Fraud Test
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, July 16, 2020
The most-clicked actual emails sent include bogus password resets, tagging of phot ...
- People Impersonation Attacks Are On The Upswing In Email: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, July 16, 2020
Almost half of IT and security personnel have seen spoofing of colleagu ...
- What Thieves Pay For Passwords -- And Brands' Responsibility To Protect Them
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, July 9, 2020
More than 15 billion exposed credentials are in circulation on the da ...
- Suspected BEC Scam Artists Arrested After Flaunting Wealth in Social Media: Report
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Dubai police have arrested two Nigerians suspected of participating in business ema ...
- Microsoft Fights COVID-19 Cyber Scam
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, July 8, 2020
Microsoft had filed suit last year against several John Does, alleging cyb ...
- Russian Cyber Gang Attempts Two-Pronged BEC Scam: Agari
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, July 7, 2020
Cosmic Lynx targets employees at the VP level while impersonating outside leg ...
- Consumers Buying More Fake Health, Beauty Products As Ecommerce Surges
Search & Performance Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Tuesday, July 7, 2020
About 64% of U.S. consumers say they lost money purchasing poor-quality heal ...
- Amazon, Google, Facebook To Face New EU Legislation On Content, Competition, Taxes
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Sunday, July 5, 2020
The goal is to quash anticompetitive behavior in companies such as Googl ...
- Login Attack Spoofs Mailgun And SendGrid, Researchers Say
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, July 2, 2020
The "pernicious" attack also bypasses secure email gateways and DMARC, Ironscales repo ...
- UK Retailers Offered Fake Coronavirus Grants By Email
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, June 25, 2020
The UK has its own version of a coronavirus email scam. Retaile ...
- Second Wave Of COVID-19 Could Drive New Email Scams, Company Says
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, June 22, 2020
Consumers should avoid clicking on links in emails and instead go ...