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The ongoing lockdown may be complicating the path of Cupid s arrows. But as another Valentine s Day rolls around, authorities are warning that romance scammers - and other types of fraudsters - are alive and well and have been increasingly preying on unsuspecting victims around the world.
Take it from the FBI: Romance scams remain big business, accounting for at least 23,000 victims in the U.S. and more than $605 million in losses last year. Confidence/romance scams have resulted in one of the highest amounts of financial losses when compared to other internet-facilitated crimes, the FBI warns in a fresh romance scam alert.
Costway s French checkout site was injected with two JavaScript skimmers. (Source: Malwarebytes)
Malwarebytes researchers have uncovered unusual payment card skimming code designed to harvest data that is already being stolen by other hackers on a website. We have seen threat actors - and skimmers in particular - compete before, but not exactly in the same manner, Jérôme Segura, director of threat intelligence at Malwarebytes. Malwarebytes found this unusual second layer of malicious code in the online checkout function of the French site for Costway, which sells furniture and appliances in North America and Europe.
Costway appears to be one of many e-commerce sites around the world that is still running an older version of Adobe s Magento software despite warnings from the software company to move to an updated version of the content management systems, the Malwarebytes report notes.
Forward Edge-AI, Inc. announces a quarterly $2,000 prize to help stop robocall scams
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Americans received over 38.2 Billion Robocalls in 2020 and 40 percent were scams, many targeting senior citizens and veterans. The Forward Edge-AI, Inc. robocall challenge prize helps stop scam calls and text messages.
The Gabriel app does not collect, centrally store, or sell a user’s private data. Anonymity and privacy protection were key design goals that led us to incorporate Blockchain/ Distributed Ledger Technology, virtual points and electronic gift rewards as part of our overall solution. SAN ANTONIO (PRWEB) January 28, 2021 Forward Edge AI, Inc. – announced release of its Gabriel® Swarm Game and a quarterly $2,000 challenge to identify emerging scam calls and text messages that target vulnerable communities.