by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 22, 2020 | Scam of the day
Recently personal information of 10,683,188 people gathered in a data breach of MGM Resorts hotels turned up on Dark Web websites where criminals buy and sell stolen data. The data included full names, home addresses, phone numbers, email addresses and dates of birth...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Feb 18, 2020 | Scam of the day
Over the years, I have written many times about the extreme danger of phishing emails or the more specifically targeted spear phishing emails. Phishing emails come from scammers who pose as companies, governmental agencies or other entities with which you do business...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 6, 2019 | Scam of the day
Russians Maksim Yakubets and Igor Turashev who the Justice Department allege operated an international cybercrime organization known as Evil Corp (which sounds like it should be the villain in an Austin Powers movie) were charged yesterday with stealing 100 million...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Dec 4, 2019 | Scam of the day
Some former Netflix subscribers who cancelled their accounts are reporting that they are still being charged for their subscriptions. The problem arises when scammers using the username and passwords of the former Netflix subscribers to log into the canceled accounts...
by Steven Weisman, Esq. | Nov 28, 2019 | Scam of the day
It has only been a couple of days since I wrote about another major ransomware attack and now there has been another to report to you about. Ransomware is the name for malware that once installed on a computer, often unwittingly through clicking on links in spear...
