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Impersonating an Amazon order notification, the attackers end up calling victims to try to obtain their credit card details, says Avanan. A recent campaign spotted by email security provider Avanan spoofs Amazon with both a traditional phishing message and a voice call to try to steal credit card information.
A surge in spearphishing emails designed to steal Office 365 credentials were rigged to look like they came from a Kaspersky email address. Office 365 credentials are a common target for phishing attacks.
Kaspersky said today that a legitimate Amazon Simple Email Service token issued to a third-party contractor was recently used by threat actors behind a spear-phishing campaign targeting Office 365 users. Amazon SES is a scalable email service designed to allow developers to send emails from any app for various use cases, including marketing and mass email communications.
As you may or may not know given the frequency of data breaches during the pandemic era, but October is cybersecurity awareness month.While many organisations have advocated for smarter cybersecurity practices to be observed in our personal and professional lives, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is offering something on top of this – freely accessible cybersecurity awareness training.
From January 2016 through March 2021, according to the indictment, Talsma rented textbooks from the Amazon Rental program in order to sell them for a profit. He supposedly did so to bypass the 15 book limit Amazon placed on textbook rentals.
Links to torrents that contain 128GB of data supposedly pulled from the Amazon-owned Twitch streaming service have been posted to 4chan. Without a trace of irony, the anonymous poster described Twitch as "a disgusting toxic cesspool" and linked to the data, which they alleged contains the source code for the Twitch site, other bits of released and unreleased software, and data on payouts made to Twitch creators.
Drivers working for Amazon Delivery Service Partners are increasingly under constant surveillance for safe driving, monitored by artificial intelligence which awards them a score and generates voice reminders for safe driving. Drivers who spoke to Vice's Motherboard complained the tech is too sensitive, often wrong and making their jobs miserable - and not to mention, taking money out of their paycheck.
Cato Networks announced the results of its analysis of 263 billion enterprise network flows between April and June 2021. Researchers showed a novel use of Houdini malware to promote the spoofing of a device.
Cato Networks SASE Threat Research Report has discovered a new version of the old Houdini malware now being used to steal device information to subvert access rules that check on the device as well as the user. A controversial feature, Sidewalk constructs a shared network between other smart devices including Echo, Ring Security Cams, outdoor lights and more.
Data theft, insider threats and imposters accessing sensitive customer data have apparently gotten so bad inside Amazon, the company is considering rolling out keyboard-stroke monitoring for its customer-service reps. A confidential memo from inside Amazon explained that customer service credential abuse and data theft was on the rise, according to Motherboard which reviewed the document.