Since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of brute-force attacks targeting remote desktop protocol connections used with Windows devices has steadily increased, spiking to 100,000 incidents per day in April and May, according to an analysis by security firm ESET.
June 30, 2020 : Info Risk Today
A social media storm kicked up late Saturday and Sunday as Chase banking customers panicked when it seemed as if money suddenly vanished from their bank accounts.
June 29, 2020 : Detroit Free Press
More than 2,000 victims lost money through fake goods sold online, cold-calls, SMS messages and other types of types of fraud, according to the UK agency Action Fraud, which enables people to report if they are a victim of cybercrime or fraud.
May 31, 2020 : Forbes
The pandemic has shifted everything. And according to Jeff Bender, vice president of digital solutions at Diebold Nixdorf, the financial services landscape will be forever altered. “When we look at a post-COVID-19 world,” he said, “there’s no doubt that the global pandemic has had a profound impact on consumer behavior.”
May 15, 2020 : PYMNTS
How about this one? A consumer recently received an email from someone claiming to be from their financial institution. And the bank claimed that, somehow, the customer's banking information was not accurate and was creating trouble with the deposit of the Economic Impact Payment, according to Melissa Gaddis, senior director of customer success for TransUnion Global Fraud & Identity Solutions.
May 15, 2020 : Detroit Free Press