Criminals will send fraudulent emails or e-cards with malicious links or attachments. Learn from us on how you can detect and avoid holiday shopping scams, and better protect your identity and finances. Don’t fall for these holiday scams this season

Prices may go down over the holidays but hacking incidents go up. Way up. While online shopping is something we all need to be diligent about when it comes to our personal cybersecurity, we need to be mindful of our working environment as well.

We continue to see increased COVID-19 phishing scams and sometimes they even use official government names in an attempt to hook you.

Phishing is a popular form of cybercrime because of how effective it is. Cybercriminals have been successful using emails, text messages, or direct messages on social media to get people to respond with their personal information. The best defense is awareness and knowing what to look for.

We often see scammers and hackers using scare tactics to try and get payment using bitcoin which is not backed by any financial institutions so makes it very difficult to recover any money sent.