The healthcare industry is a vulnerable target of cybercriminals, but not for the reasons most business sectors are. Between 80 and 90 percent of all cybercrime results from people not following basic cyber hygiene practices, but in healthcare criminals gain access to information through infrastructure weaknesses and the murky third-party agreements.
“Brushing” scams are one of the rarer internet crimes and are hard to defend once started. They can range from relatively benign pranks to outright identity theft. Most commonly found on Amazon, they can occur on any e-commerce site that uses customer reviews to boost products.
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Ever heard of Paxful Wallet? If you’re one of the 3 million people who use it to buy, sell, and store cryptocurrency that answer is yes. Since that customer base represents less than one percent of the US population, probably not. Unless that is, you are one of the thousands more hit by the Paxful Wallet/Venmo Scam.
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