Hospital pays for keys to unlock encrypted data after FBI alert
Healthcare provider forced to choose whether or not to pay to decrypt data decides to pay up.
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FBI: US victims lost $2.7bn to online scammers in 2018, mostly to email fraudsters
Business email compromise (BEC) scams account for more than half of total losses
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Asian victims lose $40m to scammers spoofing Chinese embassy phone numbers
FBI warns consumers over the Chinese embassy scam.
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FBI: RDP attacks are still on the rise
Ransomware attackers to Russian government hackers love RDP. You should be concerned, according to the FBI.
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FBI warns scammers threaten to leak private info if victims don’t pay
Email scammers learn a few tricks from ransomware attackers.
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FBI warns businesses 'Man-in-the-E-Mail' scam escalating
For more than a year, the I Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) is warning businesses to be on the lookout for growing scam that tricks them into paying invoices from established companies that look legitimate but in fact are fraudulent.
Michael Cooney | 28 Jun | Read more
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IC3: Loan scammers DOS emergency services phone lines
Pay day loan scammers are crippling some US emergency service telephone lines in their bid to pester victims into paying fraudulent debt claims, according to the Internet Crime Complaint Centre, IC3.
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New extortion scheme using Citadel malware invokes Internet Crime Complaint Center
The Internet Crime Complaint Center, a partnership with the FBI, today issued a warning about an uptick in a new version of Citadel malware that uses the IC3's good name to try and extort money from victims.
Michael Cooney | 30 Nov | Read more
