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Cyber Hygiene Tips
Use these below general safety tips to increase your chances of being safe while online. Implementing these tips can greatly enhance your safety and security while navigating the internet.
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Wolves of Wall Street in Sheep’s Clothing
In my business I have no option but to listen into tons of underground chatter. That’s where I ran into a scam app let’s call it BS AI (because most of it was BS in the name of AI). It grandly claims to be the trading expert in the field of artificial intelligence. (I wish…
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Protect your devices like a Pro – Secure your phone
There is a famous riddle shared among generation after generation of us, fraud fighters. It goes as follows: If you are being chased by a lion how fast do you need to run? Answer: Well, you only need to run a little bit faster than the slowest person in the group, so the lion doesn’t…
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What is SIM Box Fraud?
SIM Box fraud is a type of interconnect bypass fraud in telecom. Simply put, SIM Box is a device used to route Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) calls through to local traffic by connecting to local GSM networks using one or more SIM cards, hence avoiding international calling tariffs. The device allows a user to…
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Steganography – The New Attack Vector
Raise your hand if you watched the web series ‘The Freelancer’? The show in which a new bride ends up getting abducted into Syria, and is rescued back to India. In one scene, the ‘Freelancer’ sends the victim a harmless looking image to click open to infect the antagonist’s phone? That was an example of…
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How not to take the phishing bait
The popular cab aggregator Uber became a victim of a massive data breach in Sep of 2022. And how did the attacker get access to the sensitive internal systems? It turns out that the supposedly eighteen year old attacker who was eager to take responsibility for the successful attack said “I was spamming [an] employee…
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The less talked about Immigration Scams
Every day, we hear about people losing their hard-earned money to the classic romance scams, investment schemes and job and work from home scams. A relatively lesser-known scheme which is often a variant of job scams, is very surgically targeted at victims looking to relocate to foreign shores. These are often hard to crack by…
