Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Unfortunately, scams are a fact of life online. The virtual ties that bind us are international now: Our public telephone numbers, social media accounts, email addresses, messaging apps, dating profiles, and even our physical mailboxes, can all be reached by any criminal and con artist from anywhere in the world.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Justice Department this month offered a $5 million bounty for information leading to the arrest and conviction of a Russian man indicted for allegedly orchestrating a vast, international cybercrime network that called itself “ Evil Corp ” and stole roughly $100 million from businesses and consumers. LOW FRIENDS IN HIGH PLACES.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 29, 2022

Action Fraud, the UK's national reporting center for fraud and cybercrime , is warning of a very disturbing scam involving social media and "indecent images of children." Details are light, but social media fans should take this as a warning to lock down their accounts immediately. They simply steal accounts and begin posting.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our password at the breached entity. Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Cybercrime isn’t just a futuristic Hollywood plotline, it’s a real threat that targets everyone—from wide-eyed kids to seasoned adults and wise grandparents. Identifying scams Before we dive headfirst into the cyber safety tips, let’s equip ourselves with the ultimate weapon: knowledge. And guess what?

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Security experts from Digital Shadows have conducted an interesting study about the technique adopted by crooks to infiltrate company emails, so-called BEC scam. According to the FBI , the number of business email account (BEC) and email account compromise (EAC) scam incidents worldwide reached 78,000 between October 2013 and May 2018.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

In each attack, the victims saw their email and financial accounts compromised after suffering an unauthorized SIM-swap, wherein attackers transferred each victim’s mobile phone number to a new device that they controlled. Prosecutors say Noah Michael Urban of Palm Coast, Fla., Twilio disclosed in Aug. According to an Aug.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 22, 2023

More than 450 workers at the United States Postal Service (USPS) lost more than $1 million in a direct deposit scam that left postal workers without pay, angry at the USPS for not heeding warnings of the scheme, and the agency scrambling to figure out exactly what happened. And this is, sadly, an example of why both of those are so critical."

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SecureList

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There are two main types of online fraud aimed at stealing user data and money: phishing and scams. The history of scams and phishing. Posing as AOL employees, the scammers sent messages asking users to verify their accounts or asking for payment details. Also in the 1990s, the first online scams appeared.

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Identity IQ

MAY 7, 2021

What is Account Takeover? Account takeover, also known as ATO, is a form of identity theft in which a malicious third party gains access to or “takes over” an online account. One of the primary reasons behind this massive rise in account takeover is the relative ease with which it can be done. Account Takeover Prevention.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 30, 2024

The infamous cybercrime syndicate ShinyHunters has struck again, this time claiming responsibility for an absolutely staggering data breach impacting live entertainment giants Ticketmaster and Live Nation. If confirmed, Ticketmaster must be transparent about the accessed data.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

“According to this actor, he had originally intended to send his targets—all senior-level executives—phishing emails to compromise their accounts, but after that was unsuccessful, he pivoted to this ransomware pretext,” Hassold wrote. billion in 2020. Image: FBI. Open our letter at your email. ” Image: Sophos.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The subject of the emails reads “Important Notification About Your Account” in an attempt to urge recipients to open it. “Upon opening the attachment, victims were greeted with a message announcing additional verification requirements for the associated account. ” reads the analysis published by the Armorblox.

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SecureList

JUNE 26, 2023

Below is a brief description of the most popular types of threats that SMB employees encountered in January–May 2023: Exploits The biggest threat to SMBs in the first five months of 2023 were exploits , which accounted for 483,980 detections. If an employee enters their credentials, the scammers get access to their account.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 2, 2024

” The data came to light a few weeks ago when it was put up for sale on an online cybercrime forum, but the seller, a hacker calling themselves “MajorNelson”, claimed it had been stolen from AT&T three years prior. million current AT&T account holders and approximately 65.4 million former account holders.

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Herjavec Group

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

More than 90 percent of cyberattacks are initiated by phishing scams. There will be all sorts of Black Friday scams with the most clever subjects coming at us. Even amateur hackers can snoop on public Wi-Fi and pick up your email and other account login IDs and passwords. Change all of your passwords.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2024

Statistics for H2 2023 AT&T says personal data from 73 million current and former account holders leaked onto dark web US critical infrastructure cyberattack reporting rules inch closer to reality Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook and Mastodon Pierluigi Paganini ( SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter)

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2023

Having policies and procedures to secure social media accounts and minimise the potential for incidents can help. Recently, a client with several different social media accounts and a large team of people working on them approached BH Consulting to review its security and policies around them. More than 4.7

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

By focusing on this context, we hope that you’ll come away with a stronger understanding about, for instance, why you should use a password manager rather than that you should use a password manager. In the world of online scams, criminals care about one thing: Your money. Don’t lose thousands upon thousands of dollars.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Here’s a look at some of the more notable cybercrime stories from the past year, as covered by KrebsOnSecurity and elsewhere. Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2024

Dellone says the crooks then used his phone number to break into his account at Coinbase and siphon roughly $100,000 worth of cryptocurrencies. 2023 story here about how experts now believe it’s likely hackers are cracking open some of the password vaults stolen in the 2022 data breach at LastPass. federal court.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Cyber threats have evolved from poorly-written scam emails to state-sponsored attacks, ransomware onslaughts, and deepfake technologies. emphasized collective action and individual accountability. Instead of relying solely on traditional passwords, consider passwordless methods for added security. Protect IT."

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SecureWorld News

MAY 13, 2020

Cybercrime nearly always increases during times of crisis as criminals take advantage of panic and unease. The COVID-19 pandemic is certainly no exception, but victims of cybercrime often don’t know where to turn for help. Kristin Judge, founder of the Cybercrime Support Network, hopes to change that. billion in victim losses.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2024

surfaces in the threat landscape Pokemon Company resets some users’ passwords Ukraine cyber police arrested crooks selling 100 million compromised accounts New AcidPour wiper targets Linux x86 devices. Is it a Russia’s weapon? Players hacked during the matches of Apex Legends Global Series.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2022

Threat intelligence firm Resecurity details how crooks are delivering IRS tax scams and phishing attacks posing as government vendors. The script intercepts entered credentials and pass them via POST request: HTTP POST transmits login and password to script deployed on jbdelmarket[.]com: SecurityAffairs – hacking, IRS tax scam).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Notably, per additional context acquired from the actor, the majority of exposed accounts on the Dark Web didn’t have 2FA enabled. Some users may not have changed their password, or this process might still be ongoing. Handling remediation, especially for a large customer base, is complex and may not be instantly executed.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 10, 2024

From our safe portal, everyday people can view past password breaches, active social media profiles, potential leaks of government ID info, and more. Creating a social media account requires handing over your full name and birthdate. Where the risk truly lies, however, is in fraudulent account access.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

The truth is technology has grown at an exponential rate and so has cybercrime. Cybercrime doesn’t just affect big businesses and national governments. Impersonation Scams. Although BEC attacks may be targeted at business, they can also be used to scam individual people. What You Can Do. Update your software.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The Iranian hacker group TA453 has recently been using a technique that creates multiple personas to trick victims , deploying “social proof” to scam people into engaging in a thread. Other Iranian-based cyberattacks have included hackers targeting Albanian government systems and spear phishing scams.

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Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Elderly Americans are facing a drastic increase in cybercrime, identity theft and financial abuse. billion in cybercrime losses to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) – a 74% increase from the previous year. Many seniors are less technologically savvy than younger generations, making them more vulnerable to cybercrime.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 28, 2020

A credible threat actor is offering access to the email accounts of hundreds of C-level executives for $100 to $1500 per account. Access to the email accounts of hundreds of C-level executives is available on the Exploit.in for $100 to $1500 per account. Exploit.in ” reported ZDNet.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

But by all accounts, few attacks from those gangs have come close to the amount of firepower wielded by a pro-Russia group calling itself “ NoName057(16).” He also co-runs SURBL , an anti-abuse service that flags domains and Internet address ranges that are strongly associated with spam and cybercrime activity, including DDoS.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 3, 2023

This could spell trouble, as hackers can easily hijack an account to publish scam related campaigns, hate speech, biased political statements and what not. Third is the news related to cybercrime and might interest the male folks! Third is the news related to cybercrime and might interest the male folks!

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Money Transfer Scam – Scammers hack the victims’s email accounts, monitor conversations between the buyers and title agents, send instructions on where to wire the money. The con in question is a money transfer scam with all the likeness of a typical transaction. No security is 100 percent reliable.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

According to research from the FBI and FTC, cybercrimes against older adults cost more than $650 million in losses each year. On top of that, older adults tend to have more significant financial funds like retirement accounts, making them an ideal target for cybercriminals. . Talk About the Latest Online Scams .

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

A significant share of scam, phishing and malware attacks is about money. With trillions of dollars of digital payments made every year, it is no wonder that attackers target electronic wallets, online shopping accounts and other financial assets, inventing new techniques and reusing good old ones. of attacks.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Experts spotted a new macOS Backdoor named SpectralBlur linked to North Korea Merck settles with insurers regarding a $1.4

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