Tag Archives: Spoofing

ALERT: CRIMINALS REQUESTING W-2s VIA SIMPLE SOCIAL ENGINEERING

By Todd Hacke Tax season is a hectic time of year for not only organizations but their employees.  This year attackers are looking to take advantage of this turbulence with a simple social engineering inquiry that could land them a gold mine of personal and financial information.  It turns out all they have to do […]

HALOCK INVESTIGATES: “ZERO TOLERANCE”

HALOCK Investigates. An all-too-common cyber-crime today is spoofing, which is the practice of deceiving people into believing an email or website originates from a source that it does not. In a recent case we are investigating, the perpetrator substituted a number in the URL to mimic the actual URL with the hopes that the recipient wouldn’t notice […]