Scam of The Week

The majority of email clients have filters in place to catch suspicious looking emails. Unfortunately, cybercriminals are always searching and finding new ways to bypass these filters.

Spear phishing is a phishing attack that targets a specific person and is made to look like it comes from a trusted source. Social media has fast become the easiest way for cybercriminals to find a specific target.

A new discovery with job postings on LinkedIn are not as secure, or professional, as you might expect. Anyone with a LinkedIn profile can anonymously create a posting for a job for small or medium-sized organizations.

Scams are ever present, and always changing. In a recent phishing scam, the scammers told users they had violated copyright laws and would have to take immediate action to protect their account. The claim the scammers used was that content shared on a social media app or website (Instagram, YouTube, etc) violated copyright law.