Posts from October 2020.
Phishing FINRA
October is cyber-security awareness month, so it’s only appropriate that FINRA started it with another Regulatory Notice warning member firms to beware of a false-survey phishing scheme. The Notice warns of “a widespread, ongoing phishing campaign” soliciting survey responses in an email using the fake domain “@regulation-finra.org.” See Reg. Notice 20-35 (Oct. 6, 2020), here.
That’s more of the same for FINRA. It warned in August that fraudsters were using a fake FINRA domain (www.finnra.org – with an extra “n”) in Regulatory Notice 20-27 ...