- AI Phishing Bait: Technology Drives Massive Surge In Cyber Crime
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Friday, May 24, 2024
Phishing artists are also using QR-based attacks, SlashNext reports. ...
- My Amateur Sleuthing Is No Match For AI Spam
Media Insider, Steven Rosenbaum - Monday, April 29, 2024
It's a digital jungle of spam, scans and criminal pings. ...
- Court Rules Apple Co-Founder 'Woz' Can Sue YouTube Over BitCoin Scam
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, April 3, 2024
A California appellate court confirmed this week that Apple co-founder Steve Wozni ...
- Phishing, Smishing, Taxes: Scam Artists Are Active As April 15 Approaches
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Email and SMS are being utilized for ever more nefarious schemes, t ...
- Meta Urged To Beef Up Efforts To Protect Users From Account Takeovers
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, March 6, 2024
"Consumers are reporting their utter panic when they first realize they ha ...
- Google, Bing Under Fire For Serving AI Deepfake Porn In Some Search Results
MediaDailyNews, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, January 12, 2024
Bing, Google, and DuckDuckGo search engines are under fire for serving nonconsensu ...
- Phish Fry: Inboxes Worldwide Being Barraged With Suspicious Emails
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Thursday, December 21, 2023
There was a substantial increase in the number of suspicious emails betwe ...
- Hitching A Ride: Fraudsters Use Mobile Number Input Fields To Send SMS Messages
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, December 12, 2023
Of all SMS traffic, 1.1% now falls into the category of S ...
- Bad AI: Human Writers Beat New Tech In IBM Phishing Test
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, October 25, 2023
Humans beat AI in an email creative test. But don't start celebrati ...
- FTC's 'Dark Patterns' Charges Are Vague, Implicate All Marketing, Amazon Argues
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Friday, October 20, 2023
Amazon is urging a federal judge to throw out the Federal Tra ...
- Appeals Court Weighs Meta's Liability For Scam Ads
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Wednesday, October 18, 2023
"This is exactly the type of case that Section 230 was mea ...
- FTC Links Social Media Scams To Targeted Ads
MediaDailyNews, Wendy Davis - Sunday, October 8, 2023
Many reported social-media scams begin with an ad on Facebook or Instagra ...
- Robert Downey Jr. Combats Online Crime In 'What Are The Odds?'
MAD, Fern Siegel - Wednesday, October 4, 2023
There is a 1 in 4 chance of Americans falling victim ...
- Bottom Dwelling Bots: They're Under Water And Hard To Detect
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Monday, October 2, 2023
Over 70% of phishing attacks cannot be seen in advance, Egress repo ...
- Enterprise Entropy: Large Firms Face Metric And Fraud Display Ad Challenges
Publishing Insider, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Advertisers list click-through rates as their chief metric, OMI and Ascend2 rep ...
- 22% Of All Digital Ad Spend, 30% Of Mobile Lost To Ad Fraud In 2023, Claims New Report
MediaDailyNews, Karlene Lukovitz - Tuesday, September 26, 2023
Ad fraud will leap 105%, from $84 billion in 2023 to $1 ...
- Click Fraud Encroached On Programmatic Advertising In Q2: Study
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, August 30, 2023
A fifth of all invalid clicks on mobile apps are now generat ...
- Trend Micro Says It Helped Interpol Take Down Phishing Operation
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, August 14, 2023
16shop allegedly supported phishing attacks on over 70,000 victims in 43 countr ...
- New Tool Determines Whether Email Attacks Were Generated By AI
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, August 9, 2023
Abnormal Security offers a product for thwarting business email compromise attacks. ...
- Salesforce Flaw Allows Bad Actors To Masquerade As Meta In Emails
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, August 2, 2023
Phishing artists are running a sophisticated Facebook phishing campaign exploiting a zero-day fl ...
- Confidence Game: Few Consumers Totally Trust Brands With Their Data
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Over half of U.S. consumers have suffered data loss, identity theft ...
- Phishing Emails Pretend They're From HR
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, July 28, 2023
Phishing emails masquerading as HR-related emails purport to discuss dress codes, holida ...
- Hackers And Phishing Artists Use AI For Brand Ends
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Friday, July 21, 2023
Hackers and other bad actors are using AI to create malicious softwar ...
- ImmuniWeb Offers Free Email Security Tests
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, July 6, 2023
Phishing tests almost doubled from last year, Proofpoint reports. ...
- Firm Seeks To Fight AI-Generated BEC Attacks
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, July 3, 2023
Perception Point combines large language models and deep-learning architecture. ...
- Piracy Subscription Purchases Often Lead To Additional Fraud: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Most people who paid for a pirate subscription by credit card h ...
- Google Files Lawsuit Over Fake Review Scams
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, June 16, 2023
Google reported that alleged scammers created 350 fraudulent business profiles and mo ...
- Gen AI Can Create Flawlessly Written Phishing Emails
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Threat actors are leveraging Gen AI tools to send persuasive email attack ...
- Most SMBs Have Suffered A Cyber Attack, Study Finds
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, June 13, 2023
The worst effects of cyberattacks for small businesses were business downtime a ...
- Scammers Are Faking Gmail's Blue Checkmarks
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Monday, June 12, 2023
Gmail’s blue checkmarks have been successfully faked. Here is a report ...