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QR codes are everywhere… but some come with a hidden price. Hackers love using them as shortcuts to steal your data. Stay vigilant! Not every scan is worth it!

Scam-Proofing Loyalty at Scale: What ATO Protection in Retail Should Look Like in 2025 Retail fraud has gone public. It no longer happens quietly in the background. Today’s scams are faster, sharper, and designed to look exactly like your brand. A spoofed checkout flow can harvest thousands of credentials before your SOC team even sees a spike. But the real damage isn’t always technical. In 2025, one impersonation scam can trigger waves of fake complaints, social media outrage, and reputational backlash that cost far more than the fraud itself.

That “car warranty” call isn’t about your car… it’s about your information. Scammers will say anything to get you talking, and paying! Best move? Hang up before they get a word out of you.

In this episode of Breaking Into Cybersecurity's latest episode, featuring Motti Tal, CSO at Memcyco. Motti shares his journey from studying computer science at Tel Aviv University to programming for the Israeli Navy and eventually moving into software and cybersecurity. He discusses the evolution of his career, how AI influences critical thinking, and the importance of innovative thinking in cybersecurity.

Scammers are slick using your own info to trick you. Stay sharp: Strong passwords + two-factor authentication Spot weird links/senders Go straight to the real site.

A customer opens their bank’s login page. At least, that’s what they think. The design is flawless, the fields are familiar. But it’s a cloned site built to harvest credentials. Within seconds, their details are replayed against the genuine portal. To the bank’s defenses, it looks like business as usual — same username, same password, same MFA prompt.

Did you know scammers can use fake Google Ads to steal your personal information? Watch this video to learn how to spot fake ads, avoid getting scammed and report suspicious ads to Google to keep yourself and others safe.

Venmo scams targeting businesses are on the rise, and they’re more convincing than ever. Watch this short video to learn the top five Venmo business account scams and how to protect your Venmo business account with simple steps.

Remote access scams are social engineering attacks where fraudsters convince users to install or open remote desktop tools like TeamViewer or AnyDesk. Once inside, they hijack login flows, harvest credentials, and often bypass MFA — opening a hidden path to account takeover (ATO). These scams are rising fast, exploiting customer trust and evading traditional fraud controls. In this guide, we’ll break down how these scams work, why they’re so effective, and how security teams can detect and disrupt them — in real time, before ATO occurs.

Many enterprises turn to the DMCA takedown process when they discover infringing or fraudulent content online. While DMCA takedown serves as a protective mechanism for copyrighted material, it was never designed to address the speed and scale of brand impersonation and phishing scams. This gap leaves businesses compromised, leveraging a reactive approach that can’t keep up with the sheer agility and scale of scammer operations. To confront it head-on, we’ll show how to file a DMCA takedown notice effectively, while highlighting tactics for resolving its shortfalls in aggressive brand impersonation, phishing and account takeover (ATO) scenarios.