Apparently, WhatsApp has become the perfect tool for cybercriminals and scammers to do their things. This time it is one of the most difficult scams to identify by the victims: the lost chip. That is because the scammer steals a person's phone number, blocks the original line and impersonates the victim to extort his contacts. The criminal buys a new chip and calls the telephone operator...
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INCIBE (Instituto Nacional de Ciberseguridad / National Institute of Cybersecurity) alerted everyone about the viral scam making the rounds on Instant Messaging app WhatsApp: A message with a link to a video in which the user is invited to participate in an exchange of collective money. The scam is presented as a circular economy movement, that claims that by only investing 33Euro, you can earn up...
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Cyber criminals use a wide variety of scam tactics to gain access to a device or network, to ask for ransom or to steal valuable information. Understanding today’s threats, how to protect and secure your company against those threats, to know the various techniques in which social engineering can be very beneficial. People can minimize the impact of cyber scams by knowing the most common methods...
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Spanish Civil Guard, in an operation called Operation Lupin, caught a young man whose initials are J.A.F., age 23, and is considered to be the greatest cyber scammer in Spain’s history. With more than 25 charges, he was target number one for the police all over the country. So far, there is an estimate of more than 1.5 million Euros stolen from 5.000 people with the...
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