๐ Online Scam Trends: Turkey Coup, Tinder, BEC, and a Lot of Tech Support Scam
๐ก Newskategorie: IT Security
๐ Quelle: news.softpedia.com
Infosec experts have detected a flurry of online scams in the past few weeks, ranging in topics from the classic tech support trickery to innovative methods of defrauding Tinder users, and the opportunistic attempts to take advantage of political events such as the Turkey coup. All events are part of a trend that has been slowly ramping up during the last few months, especially at the highest level, with scams targeting businesses executives being known as BEC. In June, we wrote about how the FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) said that BECs (Business Email Scams) had defrauded companies around the world of over $3 billion since October 2013. In a similar report released this month, Symantec also indicates that companies aroun... ...