Avast, a leading provider of cybersecurity software, has released its Q4 2022 Threat Report, which closely examines the kinds of scams that prey on unsuspecting consumers.
One of the most well-known scam types was social engineering, which highlights the human error, as well as techniques for refund and invoice fraud and purported tech support scams. Like in prior quarters, lottery-related adware campaigns were still widely used. In addition to scams, the business identified two zero-day exploits in Chrome and Windows, which have since been patched, underscoring consumers’ need to maintain software updates.
Widespread email fraud
Jakub Kroustek, Director of Avast Virus Research, argued that hackers attribute a significant percentage of their success to human nature, which causes us to react with urgency, anxiety, and a desire to recover control of situations.
According to Kroustek, “at the end of 2
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