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Finding good employees is one of the biggest challenges facing small business owners, according to the NFIB Small Business Economic Trends report. We don’t want to add to that worry, but there’s another risk worth paying attention to: the more stretched your team becomes, the easier it can be to overlook scams, skip security checks…
Bitdefender
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Black Friday is a great opportunity for small businesses, and email is one of the ways to reach customers with your best offers. But before you hit send, it’s worth checking a few things. From outdated email addresses and broken discount codes to security risks, small mistakes can cost you sales when you can least…
Bitdefender
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A delayed flight, a missing hotel reservation or a last-minute conference change can quickly send anyone searching for help. But scammers know that travelers are often stressed and hurried. They use paid search ads, lookalike websites, and fake customer-support numbers to appear when people search for an airline, hotel, or car-rental company. Key takeaways *…
Bitdefender
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Security researchers say targeted advertising was used to infect devices at the Al Jazeera news agency, exposing how everyday online ads can become a delivery system for surveillance. You don’t have to click a suspicious link to become a spyware target. Sometimes, simply loading an ad can be enough. Citizen Lab says it has documented…
Bitdefender
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Microsoft accounted for 33% of brand impersonation attempts tracked by Check Point Research in the third quarter of 2026, up from 23% in the previous quarter and roughly four times the share of any other brand. Top 10 most impersonated brands in phishing attacks (Source: Check Point) Apple and Google followed with 8% each. Dropbox…
Help Net Security
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For years, we described phishing as an email problem: an attacker writes a convincing message, sends it to thousands of people and waits for someone to click. That model is now outdated.
KnowBe4
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Fraudsters who agreed millions of pounds in contracts to supply healthcare staff PPE during the Covid-19 pandemic but instead bought luxury cars and renovated their home have been sentenced.
National Crime Agency
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A phishing campaign is targeting YouTubers with phony sponsorship offers, according to researchers at ESET. The emails are personalized to each target, making specific references to their channels, and are designed to trick users into granting access to their Google accounts.
KnowBe4
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There must have been red faces in the social media department of Ireland’s police headquarters after two of its accounts were hijacked this week. The official @GardaInfo and @GardaTraffic Twitter accounts of Garda Síochána were accessed by an unauthorised third party who posted cryptocurrency-related messages on Wednesday evening, potentially reaching hundreds of thousands of users.…
Bitdefender
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Cybersecurity researchers have disclosed details of an advanced persistent threat (APT) spear-phishing campaign that has targeted individuals affiliated with Taiwan research organizations to direct victims to an adversary-in-the-middle (AitM) phishing framework designed to harvest their Google account credentials and multi-factor authentication (MFA) codes. The activity is being tracked by…
The Hacker News
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Attackers are breaking into business email accounts with short messages asking whether a company can quote on an upcoming project, the kind of request sales and procurement staff answer every week. Cadence Riddle, a cybersecurity researcher at Fortra, tracked a 12-fold increase in malicious emails mentioning “RFQ” (request for quotation) between October 2025 and September…
Help Net Security
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Some parents don’t know the minimum age for opening a social media account, even as governments move to impose stricter limits…
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