Articles about website spoofing, cybersecurity trends, and how to protect your customers from hackers.
It’s a new year, and the Allure Security online brand protection-as-a-service application has a new look and new features, setting a new standard in brand protection.…
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Online brand impersonation attacks threaten businesses large and small, but do brands really need to open their wallets to protect themselves? The answer might be more…
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Fraudulent search engine advertising does not stop with Google. Brands should also consider Bing ads as an attack vector for malvertising.
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There’s no denying the importance of online sales to retail and other consumer-facing brands. Forecasts predict worldwide e-commerce sales will grow 56% in the coming years…
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Scammers are having a hard time getting into consumers’ inboxes these days. Consequently, they are adapting and diversifying their methods – employing innovative technology alongside retro…
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Recently, a number of brands have approached our threat response team about fake social media accounts impersonating executives at their companies. Scammers impersonating an executive on…
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As a credit union member, I find myself thwarting inbound scam attempts far more often than I used to. Between fake phone calls with deceiving caller…
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We recently highlighted the rise of spoof profiles on LinkedIn, explained the damage they can do to your reputation and employer brand, and provided tips about…
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Last year set a new record for fake profiles removed from the LinkedIn platform. This shows that fraudsters are dedicating more time and effort to scams…
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The FBI warns that fraudsters have begun mimicking legitimate mobile apps, injecting them with malicious code, and then distributing them through mobile beta-testing app services. Attackers’…
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The Internet’s latest online forum – Instagram Threads – has come into the spotlight and garnered over 150 million users within the first 2 weeks. Considering…
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Getting a Facebook post, profile, or page taken down because it impersonates your brand and could lead to the defrauding of your customers can seem like…
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Knowing exactly what to do when your brand is impersonated online seems like a daunting task. A number of nuances may send you down the wrong…
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The FBI said that in 2022, phishing took the top spot as the most reported cybercrime by a wide margin. While scammers using deceptive e-mails and…
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As part of its mission to protect against criminal threats “…which are increasingly emanating from our digitally connected world,” the FBI’s Internet Complaint Center (IC3) collects…
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Our Vice President of Operations Molly DeQuattro recently shared threat research with leading cybersecurity news site Dark Reading to bring awareness to how scam websites targeting…
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With an exponential increase in third party app store user downloads on the horizon, heeding Apple’s sideloading warnings are more important than ever. The National Telecommunications…
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Allure Security has observed an uptick in scammers using dynamic DNS (DDNS) services to claim subdomains on which they publish scam websites masquerading as known brands.…
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With the creation and mass adoption of ChatGPT, AI – inspired topics have been thrust to the forefront of everyday conversation. GPT (Generative Pre-training Transformer) is…
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Many brands end up confused about how best to address parked domains with names similar to their own. Some customers have come to us with a…
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Allure Security has observed an increase in scammers targeting credit union brands and their members by compromising vulnerable websites and adding pages impersonating credit unions to…
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A recent scam made use of two different fake Facebook profiles to try and trick me into divulging my identity data and a picture of my…
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Gartner has identified Allure Security as one of 26 ‘Example DRPS Providers’ in its recently published “Emerging Tech: Adoption Growth Insights in Digital Risk Protection Services.”…
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The NCUA’s proposed cyber incident reporting rule raises some questions about what exactly a reportable incident might be and how federally insured credit unions can prepare for the rule.
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This month industry veteran Erik Dasque joined Allure Security as CTO and dove right in executing on his vision of fostering a good engineering culture, reducing…
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One of the largest global digital payments platforms in the world used decoy user data and credentials to deceive fraudsters and trick them into exposing themselves.…
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TL;DR – We quantified the pervasiveness of online brand impersonation attacks against regional banks, community banks, and credit unions during the first quarter of 2022 –…
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Like the rest of the financial services industry, regional banks and credit unions face increased cyber attacks on their institutions and customers. The Federal Deposit Insurance…
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The White House’s 2021 American Rescue Plan may also lay out plans for fraudsters’ 2022 online payment scams. The new law doesn’t introduce new taxes, but…
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This is a guest blog post from CHEQ, the leader in Go-to-Market Security. Retail go-to-market teams know the importance of meeting their customers at the right…
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The number of brand impersonation attacks using unique scam websites hit an all-time high in December 2021 – more than tripling compared to early 2020. That’s…
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Some brand protection services make fancy claims about their web takedowns, sometimes calling them “virtual” or “automated.” When you learn of a fraudulent website impersonating your…
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I’m grateful today. Actually, I’m grateful most days because I get to work with an amazing team to combat a pressing problem that costs the world…
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The pandemic has considerably sped up the adaption of technology through roughly every sector, and it’s shown – with more companies than ever utilizing the Internet…
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No doubt you have read the news reporting on a shocking number of smash and grab thefts. Where brazen organized “flash mobs” descend upon a retailer…
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Thanksgiving is right around the corner this year, and the festivities are (Hopefully) looking to return to relative normalcy. But how can Thanksgiving conversations be “normal”…
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In the past year – and within the past 6 months especially, cryptocurrencies are witnessing a boom the likes of which have never been seen before.…
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Now that we seemingly approach a post-pandemic period, the travel industry has seen huge increases in demand. Naturally, scammers and shady travel sites are not far…
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Allure Security surveyed IT and security personnel to understand how companies are addressing digital impersonation and account takeover threats. The survey finds that companies are being…
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We’ve all heard about the Dark Web. That corner of the Internet not routinely indexed by search engines and generally unreachable without specific links or configuration…
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Teachers – where would we be without them? We all know at least one educator who has changed our lives significantly for the better. Whether it…
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Spring has officially sprung, and with the amount of time we’ve all spent online this past year, our routine spring cleaning should certainly take a more…
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People often watch out for malicious, fraudulent links in emails and text messages, and many receive training to spot telltale signs of an obvious phishing attempt.…
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And they aren’t just using emails to get it either From voicemail deep fakes to malicious drones to point of sale systems becoming credit card repositories,…
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Not that long ago, investing your hard-earned cash meant balancing between stocks and bonds. Retirement funds were managed by large organizations and made all the decisions…
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A perfect Internet fraud storm is upon us. What is a cybercriminal to do? The answer: Almost anything they want. No matter what government agency or…
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It’s that time of year for new year’s resolutions and those of us in Cybersecurity focus on the ways cybercriminals will attack and who they will…
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Come on it’s 2020, so some of us have more time on our hands and we are stuck in front of our computers longer than normal. …
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By Salvatore Stolfo Even though election day has passed, we still have to wait for a final answer. So while we wait; now is the time…
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As we approach the mid-way point of National Cyber Security Awareness Month (NCSAM), a topic that continues to be discussed over and over again are phishing…
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We love catching the bad guys before they succeed and that is just what we did on Saturday morning. Security is all about speed and stopping…
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By Salvatore Stolfo About a week ago, our team at Allure Security was investigating a phishing site targeting one of our banking customers. We had detected…
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Your Internet persona, or digital identity, is of great value and constantly sought after by hackers, scammers and fraudsters. Believe it or not, your risk begins…
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Data breaches and identity theft caused by orchestrated phishing attacks have long been a notorious problem for the banking and financial services sector. But today, virtually…
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A couple weeks ago a visitor to our website asked to chat with our sales team about a problem they were having. They clicked on the…
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Since the dawn of phishing way back in the 90s, one of the tactics phishers have used to deceive their victims is a domain name that…
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Thank you doctors, nurses, grocers, delivery drivers, pharmacists, and first responders! Thank you to those of you working in a NOC or a SOC keeping the…
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Attackers prey on customers I’ve written before about how adversaries exploit the trust customers have in well-known brands. Attackers specifically build spoof sites targeting well-known companies…
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