- Consumers Urged To Beware Of Stimulus Check Scams
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, December 30, 2020
American consumers have lost over $211 million in COVID-19-related scams, the Feder ...
- Phony Amazon Gift Cards Deliver Malicious Trojan: Report
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, December 28, 2020
Delivered by email, the purported gift cards serve the Dridex banking troja ...
- The Scammer's Toolbox: How Cyber Criminals Pursue Swindles And Phishing With Email
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Friday, December 18, 2020
A study by Barracuda of phishing attacks finds that 71% of a ...
- Consumers Want Brands To Protect Them Against Knockoffs, Fakes, Fraud
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Wednesday, December 16, 2020
One-quarter of consumers in a recent study bought counterfeit products, 36% s ...
- UK Subway Customers Hit With Malware In Emails
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, December 15, 2020
Subway customers in the UK have been exposed to an email phishi ...
- Holiday Online Fraud Flat With 2019, But Up From 2018 And The Rest Of 2020: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, December 3, 2020
Mobile use for shopping fell slightly from last year. But fraud ma ...
- Experian Completes $280 Million Acquisition Of Tapad
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, November 23, 2020
Tapad provides digital identity resolution services. It will work with Experian ...
- Typos In Brand Messages Usually Mean Fraud, Security Firm Warns
Digital News Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, November 17, 2020
Mistakes can reveal attempts at online fraud, counterfeit goods and other typ ...
- BEC Attacks Jump From Q2 To Q3: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, October 30, 2020
Invoice and payment scams dominate, But COVID-19 schemes are on the declin ...
- FTC Economist Analyzes Review Quality On Amazon, Google, HomeAdvisor, Facebook, Yelp
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, October 30, 2020
FTC economist Devesh Raval shows how fake online reviews can account f ...
- Microsoft Office 365 Targeted In Phishing Scam
Around the Net In Digital, Ray Schultz - Friday, October 23, 2020
Microsoft Office 365 users are potential victims of a phishing campaign th ...
- Alleged Proud Boys Emailing Pressures Voters To Vote For Trump
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, October 21, 2020
Threatening emails have been sent, allegedly by the far-right extremist group t ...
- The Lump Of Coal This Christmas: Consumer Fraud
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Thursday, October 15, 2020
ACI projects a 27% Increase in ecommerce buying. But the value ...
- Email Scam Artists More Active During Pandemic: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, September 21, 2020
Emails linked to COVID-19 have contained infostealers that steal passwords and oth ...
- 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 Podcast, 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 ...