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The fake invoice scams

This Article shares information about the fake invoice scam where Scammers are hoping you call when the line is active and give your personal information. Like your credit card or your bank account number to cancel the order and refund your money. Similarly, they send out emails that has links to cancel the order that you never placed but after clicking that link, they can basically get hang of your phone or computer. And from that they can steal your personal information and many more things saved on your computer. We can protect our computers from this just by paying attention to details while reading the fake email and invoices.

Investment fraud losses soar

This Article is basically talks about investment frauds and scams like phishing, vishing, pharming. A lot of people around 800,000 people got scammed in 2021 by this scams and lost millions of dollars. Mostly adults were targeted because its easier for them to target old people because new generation mostly know about these scams. We can protect ourselves from this by making sure that the website you are working on is secured and making sure that its not a scam website.

Russian Hacking Group

In this Article it shows that how some Russian hacking group attacked U.S power companies and the attack lasted for 60 minutes. It also says that in 2012 and 2017 the Russian hacker managed to get in the computer of Nuclear plant in Kansas. All U.S power companies were attacked and they couldn't do nothing in order to protect us from them they need to make their security more powerful where the hackers can't get in. If we don't make it more secure the hackers can easily release toxic chemicals and they could have set off explosions.