Scam of The Week

The past year has been full of high-profile data breaches, and one cybercriminal has taken it a step further with the claim of creating the ultimate database. This ultimate database supposedly has over 3.8 billion records, which the cybercriminal is attempting to sell the information on the dark web.

When a criminal wants to log into your account without your permission, they have a few different options—they can attempt to steal your password from you with phishing, they can try to guess your password, and sometimes they can exploit vulnerable software to obtain encrypted password hashes that can expose your password via cracking software on their computer.

In another recent scam, cybercriminals pretended to be the telecommunications provider, Verizon.