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A new report from Kaspersky found that cybercriminals are using the increase in delivery demand to push convincing phishing emails into thousands of inboxes. "The spikes in demand are causing in-transit times to stretch out. As a result, customers are getting used to receiving apologetic messages from couriers linking to updated shipping statuses. Recently, we have observed a number of fake sites and emails supposedly from delivery services exploiting the coronavirus topic," Kaspersky Lab anti-spam analyst Tatyana Shcherbakova wrote in a blog post.
You may have heard that today's phone fraudsters like to use caller ID spoofing services to make their scam calls seem more believable. You probably didn't know that these fraudsters also can use caller ID spoofing to trick your bank into giving up information about recent transactions on your account - data that can then be abused to make their phone scams more believable and expose you to additional forms of identity theft.
In the past, most of these sextortion emails were sent in high numbers with links to Bitcoin sites, specific URLs, and other details that raised a red flag with security filters. That's why many sextortion emails have switched to using QR codes, which many filters can't detect.
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In the past week, an average of 18 million COVID-19 phishing emails were sent per day via Gmail to unsuspecting marks, according to Google. Google said its malware scanner uses deep-learning tech to detect malware on 300 billion attachments each week, and 63 per cent of dodgy docs blocked by Gmail are different from day to day.
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Successful COVID-19-themed fraud attempts perpetrated in the US, since the beginning of the year resulted in a little over $13 million losses, the Federal Trade Commission has shared. Despite repeated alerts from a variety of sources - the FBI, the FTC, the FCC - US citizens continue to fall for COVID-19-themed scams.
Email security biz Mimecast has warned of a flight refund scam doing the rounds amid a general uptick in coronavirus-related online crime. It works by offering a fake flight refund form via email.
Now, the FBI is warning that threat actors are taking advantage of efforts to procure PPE and critical equipment such as ventilators with new business email compromise and other scams aimed at defrauding those seeking the supplies. These so-called "Advance-fee schemes" are among several new fraud campaigns the feds have observed, alongside more typical BEC scams.
When is ICANN going to do something about the explosion of scammy domains spawned by the COVID-19 pandemic? We can't, the overseers of the internet said last Tuesday, throwing its hands in the air and telling domain registrars that they can - and should.