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Sticker Warning: Never scan a QR code on a sticker

Meanwhile … LA bakery owner takes big financial hit after receiving scam order of 1,000 cupcakes, paid for with a $7.5K counterfeit check — her bank’s promise of protection fell through

SCAM HOT TIP: Whenever transacting big amounts as a business owner especially with new clients, always make it on your terms. If the client truly desires your goods or services, they will make it happen. If necessary, break up big payments into many different smaller payments.

📰 Headline Highlights

• Car rental giant Avis data breach impacts over 299,000 customers

• More than 3 million Medicare users had information leaked in MOVEit breach

• North Korean Threat Actors Deploy COVERTCATCH Malware via LinkedIn Job Scams

• West Virginia law enforcement sues data broker for publishing personal information online

• 1.7M potentially pwned after payment services provider takes a year to notice break-in

• Electronic payment firm Slim CD notifies 1.7M customers of data breach

• Cyber Staffing Shortages Remain CISOs' Biggest Challenge

• Business Email Compromise Costs $55bn Over a Decade

• Acadian Ambulance service is reporting data breach, exposing almost 3 Million people

• Tennessee school district loses $3.4 million to a fake curriculum vendor

In other news, UK National Crime Agency, responsible for fighting cybercrime, ‘on its knees,’ warns report

MUST READ: Sextortion scams now use your "cheating" spouse’s name as a lure

🤷‍♀️ What now?

Russia’s covert influence operation’s election interference

Some countries taking advantage of the gullibility of constituencies through “damaging information leaks” and social engineering using cyber capabilities.

🔥 Hot Tip: Subscribe to fact-checking newsletters like PolitiFact, where they proactively let you know what you would need to know then.

LOOK OUT: Hacker pleads guilty after arriving on plane from Ukraine with a laptop crammed full of stolen credit card details

We have been trying to start our election edition cycle and with so many other things going on, that has been postponed for a while but it should be coming. Let us know if there’s something specific you want talk about.

Inside Hexagon

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HOUSEKEEPING

Glossary/Legend:

• Cyber Attackers and Cyber Predators - these terms refer to people who use any kind of technology, including cell phones, to prey on us.

• Ransomware - a type of malicious software designed to block access to a computer system until a sum of money is paid.

• Mal-information - is a controversial term for information which is based on fact, but removed from its original context in order to mislead, harm, or manipulate.

• QR code, or Quick Response code - is a two-dimensional barcode that can be scanned with a smartphone's camera to access information.

• Pwned - The word "pwned" has origins in video game culture and is a leetspeak derivation of the word "owned", due to the proximity of the "o" and "p" keys. It's typically used to imply that someone has been controlled or compromised, for example "I was pwned in the Adobe data breach".

• Social engineering - a manipulation technique that exploits human error to gain private information, access, or valuables.

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