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(2013 Top 10 Story) Scammers in Malaysia up their game with social engineering

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(Originally published Nov 30, 2012) This tale serves as a reminder approximately how a great deal of our actual-global lives are tied to the digital international. While Digital News Asia (DNA) publishes its fair share of articles complete of advice from specialists in the protection industry, having a human face to the front such cautionary testimonies still remains the excellent vehicle to push the message ahead.   This is sincerely evidenced by the recognition of this text, which become published in 2012, but persevered to resonate in 2013 and was the eighth maximum-examine tale on DNA closing 12 months. Hopefully, the rising consciousness and acknowledgement that people need to take the time and effort to steady their digital selves manner we won't have any other such tale in 2014. –  Gabey Goh Young consultant loses all money in her financial savings account Authorities conscious, hampered by syndicates’ state-of-the-art methods A LONG-awaited vacation to Bali was known ...

Scammers take to Instagram

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Begins with customers receiving a notification approximately an Instagram remark from an unfamiliar account Good news is that global spam price dropped by means of greater than 10% in October in comparison with September THE October Symantec Intelligence Report reveals that scammers are taking gain of Instagram’s recognition which has lately crossed the one hundred-million consumer mark. The scammers are approaching it from a lot of angles, in a good deal the identical manner as they've on different social networks, Symantec stated in a assertion.   It all started with customers receiving a notification approximately an Instagram comment. It got here from an strange account, had nothing to do with the photo, and become glaringly spam:   Hi there, Get a FREE Game in my Profile, OPEN it up, Get eighty five.90$ :-) xx   The person regarded to be a rather attractive girl with fans inside the lots, however fantastically for a photograph-sharing provider, now not a unmarried phot...

Phishers and scammers targeting the World Cup: Kaspersky

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Fraudsters developing websites imitating actual domain names of the World Cup and companions Trying to trap users to proportion their private facts, along with passwords and credit score card information AS Brazil makes its final preparations to host the Fifa World Cup 2014, which will kick off on June 12, cybercriminals are constructing up their scamming campaigns geared toward football fans, in keeping with Kaspersky Lab.   The company has released numerous suggestions for a way to stay blanketed from World Cup-themed phishing schemes and malware and effectively revel in the biggest carrying occasion inside the international, it stated in a declaration.   Online fraudsters had been actively creating sophisticated websites imitating proper domain names of the World Cup, its sponsors, and companions – together with famous manufacturers – looking to trap users to share their private statistics, which includes usernames, passwords and credit card numbers.   “We stumble on 50-60 new...