Common Types of Mobile Cyber Attacks and How to Prevent them

05 Feb 2024

With the ubiquity of people owning smartphones and having a growing dependence on them for e-commerce, it has become an attractive avenue for cybercrime. Security researchers report a 500% surge of mobile cyber attacks, as scammers try to steal bank details and passwords or even get full control of phones. However, other forms of mobile malware ha...

Think Twice Before You Take a Fun-Looking Online Quiz – A Hacker Might be Behind It

20 Jan 2024

Though it might look like a fun thing to do, you better think twice before taking that quiz that pops up on your social media page. A hacker, otherwise known as a “social engineer” might have created it to obtain your personal information. Criminal hackers are all over social media sites, and it should be no surprise that they have tricks up their ...

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Spammy Scammy Text Messages: Fake Accounts on the Rise as Scammers Use Phone Farms

09 Jan 2024

Every single time I get on a stage and present a security awareness training program, someone desperately asks me how to stop all the scammy text messages. My response is the same for everybody; You can’t. What you can do is play the Whac-a-Mole game and continually mark them as spam and block them. That’s it. It’s just an annoyance, like mosquito...

The ‘Zelle Fraud’ Scam: What it Is and How to Avoid it

23 Dec 2023

Zelle is one of the most famous platforms to quickly send money to loved ones, friends, and family. However, now cybercriminals are taking advantage of it to get people’s account information. Using clever tactics to fool clients, fraudsters are now taking advantage of the existence of Zelle to get customers to give them their account information. O...