- Salesforce Flaw Allows Bad Actors To Masquerade As Meta In Emails
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, August 2, 2023
Phishing artists are running a sophisticated Facebook phishing campaign exploiting a zero-day fl ...
- Confidence Game: Few Consumers Totally Trust Brands With Their Data
Email Insider, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, August 1, 2023
Over half of U.S. consumers have suffered data loss, identity theft ...
- Phishing Emails Pretend They're From HR
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, July 28, 2023
Phishing emails masquerading as HR-related emails purport to discuss dress codes, holida ...
- Hackers And Phishing Artists Use AI For Brand Ends
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Friday, July 21, 2023
Hackers and other bad actors are using AI to create malicious softwar ...
- ImmuniWeb Offers Free Email Security Tests
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, July 6, 2023
Phishing tests almost doubled from last year, Proofpoint reports. ...
- Firm Seeks To Fight AI-Generated BEC Attacks
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Monday, July 3, 2023
Perception Point combines large language models and deep-learning architecture. ...
- Piracy Subscription Purchases Often Lead To Additional Fraud: Study
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, June 21, 2023
Most people who paid for a pirate subscription by credit card h ...
- Google Files Lawsuit Over Fake Review Scams
Search & Performance Marketing Daily, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, June 16, 2023
Google reported that alleged scammers created 350 fraudulent business profiles and mo ...
- Gen AI Can Create Flawlessly Written Phishing Emails
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Threat actors are leveraging Gen AI tools to send persuasive email attack ...
- Most SMBs Have Suffered A Cyber Attack, Study Finds
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, June 13, 2023
The worst effects of cyberattacks for small businesses were business downtime a ...
- Scammers Are Faking Gmail's Blue Checkmarks
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Monday, June 12, 2023
Gmail’s blue checkmarks have been successfully faked. Here is a report ...
- NewsGuard To Track AI-Generated Misinformation
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, June 8, 2023
NewsGuard has identified 150 low-quality "Unrelated AI-Generated News" sites, it says. ...
- Brevo Dumps Email Sender Misusing Its Service
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, June 1, 2023
Fake Sam's Club messages attempted to swindle consumers. ...
- Phony Sam's Club Email Offers Free Products To Consumers Who Take A Survey
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, May 26, 2023
Consumers who click on the survey link can be charged monthly fe ...
- Deconstructing A Predatory Marketplace
Media Insider, Gord Hotchkiss - Tuesday, May 23, 2023
Perhaps one of the winners in the fraudulent ecosystem that spawned predato ...
- Gmail, Outlook Users Warned: Delete These Emails
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Monday, May 8, 2023
Gmail and Outlook are urging consumers to delete emails that ask th ...
- Email Scam Artists Send Fake Delta Air Lines Messages
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Thursday, May 4, 2023
Scammers have sent fake Delta Air Lines emails, asking consumers to fi ...
- Google Blocked 1.43 Million Bad Apps In 2022
Around the Net in Email, Ray Schultz - Monday, May 1, 2023
Google blocked 1.43 million bad apps from being published in the Play Sto ...
- $142.8 Billion In Revenue Lost To Fake Traffic In 2022
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Friday, March 17, 2023
CHEQ research shows that more than 40% of all traffic online ...
- FTC Eyes Social Platforms Over Scam Ads
PolicyBlog, Wendy Davis - Thursday, March 9, 2023
The FTC will vote next week on whether to demand information abo ...
- Facebook Immune From Suit Over Scam Ads, Company Tells Appeals Court
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Thursday, February 16, 2023
"To the extent plaintiffs were defrauded by advertisers on Facebook, their quarr ...
- Consumers Targeted More For Refund And Tech Support Scams
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, February 10, 2023
Victims may be lured into setting up a remote connection that ope ...
- DoubleVerify Identifies Audio Ad Fraud Costing Advertisers Millions Monthly
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, February 2, 2023
BeatSting is costing advertisers up to $1 million per month by creati ...
- Websites Aim To Eliminate Fake Reviews
Around the Net In Brand Marketing, Tanya Gazdik - Wednesday, January 25, 2023
Yelp, Tripadvisor, Trustpilot, Google and several other review sites recently met f ...
- Threat Actors Are Using Google Ads To Send Malicious Emails: Report
Publishers Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, January 24, 2023
Advertisers using Google Ads are in danger of having their brands co-opt ...
- Social Security Recipients Warned To Be On The Lookout For Phone And Email Scams
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Tuesday, December 20, 2022
Scammers are using upcoming cost of living adjustments to win victims' tr ...
- Fraud Prevention Firm DataVisor Snares $40 Million in Funding
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Thursday, December 15, 2022
The company was founded by two former Microsoft staffers Yinglian Xie, a ...
- 18% Of U.S. Ecommerce Transactions Were Suspected Fraudulent During 5-Day Holiday: TransUnion
Performance Marketing Insider, Laurie Sullivan - Thursday, December 1, 2022
TransUnion released findings Thursday around global ecommerce fraud that occurred during t ...
- Court Won't Revive Advertiser's Battle With Facebook Over Phony Accounts
Digital News Daily, Wendy Davis - Monday, November 28, 2022
Siding with Meta Platforms, a federal appellate court refused to revive ...
- The 12 Scams Of Christmas, As Seen By The BBB
Email Marketing Daily, Ray Schultz - Friday, November 25, 2022
Email is used in several scheme-like offers of fake free gift ca ...