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Amazon Prime Day Spurs Spike in Phishing, Fraud Attacks

Amazon Prime Day Spurs Spike in Phishing, Fraud Attacks

A spike in phishing and malicious websites aimed at defrauding Amazon.com customers aim to make Prime Day a field day for hackers. Cybercriminals are tapping into Amazon’s annual discount shopping campaign for subscribers, Prime Day, with researchers warning of a recent spike in phishing and malicious websites that are fraudulently using the Amazon brand.

[Raport CERT ORANGE PL] SMS, czyli krótka wiadomo?? phishingowa

[CERT Orange PL report] SMS, or a short phishing message. Autumn has come ... It's getting colder (any day now, unfortunately), it gets dark earlier, criminals come back, intensify their ideas for earnings. One of the ideas, of course, is phishing campaigns. Our specialist, Michał Łopacki, took a close look at phishing SMSs in the CERT Orange Polska 2019 Report.

In Europe ransomware is the leader. The catalog of threats according to Europol

The main online threat for Europeans is ransomware, according to Europol's analysis based on the observation of cybercrime in the last 12 months. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the cyber threat landscape, also contributing to the increase in the spread of child pornography on the internet and cyber attacks involving malware. What new trends have emerged over the last year?

"PKO Bank Polski is blocking access to accounts" - this is another phishing attack on customers

PKO Bank Polski has blocked access to the personal account? Be careful, it's a scam - criminals are posing as the bank. They send fake messages to customers and try to extort personal information. - Dear customer, you recently changed your password. We need to confirm your new update within 24 hours to avoid account closure.

Phishing campaign targeting Home.pl customers

Be careful if you have a domain at Home.pl! For several days now, criminals have been hunting you down, trying to convince you to click on a fake payment link. It is an exceptionally well and skilfully prepared so-called spear phishing. Interestingly, the victims of the original phishing were allegedly the clients of nazwa.pl, but it seems that the criminals changed their mind / plans after some time.

Ransomware operators use DDoS to target the victim's website. Is that a new trend?

In the past, ransomware operators only needed to encrypt data and wait for a ransom. After that, it became fashionable to leak threats. Now there is a case of a victim's website being attacked simultaneously, and we are concerned that this could set a new direction in the development of the ransomware "business model". The first case of ransomware coupled with a DDoS attack (or the first one described in more detail?)

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