Malwarebytes

JUNE 16, 2023

This was a risky gambit for the creators of this malware scam. The GitHub pages also leaned into social aspects, making use of popular tags like “discordapp”, “cve”, and “rce-exploits” to draw more potential victims in to look at the rogue pages.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Watch out for an energy-themed scam being sent out via SMS. Scam alert. It’s a scam. If you actually visit the page despite this, it’s also tagged as “Dangerous” where the green padlock in the URL bar is located. How to avoid energy scams. I just received this text.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Iran Crisis Russia-Aligned TAG-70 Targets European Government and Military Mail Servers in New Espionage Campaign U.S.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 19, 2023

February's Patch Tuesday tackles three zero-days Four EU telco giants will start asking users if they want personalized targeted ads WordPress sites backdoored with ad fraud plugin Fake Hogwarts Legacy cracks lead to adware, scams Arris router vulnerability could lead to complete takeover Ransomware pushes City of Oakland into state of emergency TikTok (..)

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Malwarebytes

MAY 3, 2022

A real world scam which sucks the fun out of craft fairs has caused nothing but stress for victims. This isn’t an isolated case; this specific scam targeted people all across the UK. How does this fake vendor fair scam work? The really interesting thing about all this is that fake fair scams aren’t some weird anomaly.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2018

Security experts from Symantec are warning of tech support scams abusing Call Optimization Services to insert phone numbers. Crooks are improving their tech support scams by using Call Optimization Services that are commonly used in legitimate call center operations to perform: Tracking the source of inbound calls.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 31, 2022

When we refer to hijacked verified profiles on Twitter, it’s most commonly some sort of Elon Musk themed scam. Whisper it, but Elon tributes may no longer be the hottest way on the block to earn some scam money. To enter: Follow me & @GrumpyKatzNFT Like & RT Tag 3 friends. Forging a new career in pixel art.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

But, as with all games like this, it comes with a steep price tag, so it's no surprise to suddenly see websites peddling "cracked" versions of the game for free. Suffice it to say the website is a survey scam. Hogwarts Legacy , the much-anticipated Harry Potter video game, has finally landed on major gaming platforms.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

QR codes are everywhere: you can see them on posters and leaflets, ATM screens, price tags and merchandise, historical buildings and monuments. Malevolent uses of QR codes in email Fraudsters use QR codes to encode links to phishing and scam pages. Those were scam messages imitating emails from delivery services, such as FedEx and DHL.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The catch was that the document contained a function to transform these gibberish-looking symbols into hexadecimal values that denoted specific JavaScript tags. As is the case with another notorious Google Docs phishing scam , security tools don't interpret such a message as malicious because it is sent by Google.

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The Security Ledger

MARCH 3, 2019

Check us out if you're at the show or follow us on social media @securityledger or via the #SLRSA hash tag. » Related Stories Research finds Sextortion Scams Expand in Scope, Sophistication In Granite State: Industry Groups Paint Dark Picture of Right to Repair Four Signs You’re Ready for a Virtual CISO.

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SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

Once a URL is entered, the bot will generate several scam links targeting users of the service. Archive with phishing kits posted in a Telegram scam channel Contents of a free phishing kit archive Phishers also share stolen personal data with their subscribers, tagging it with information on whether it was verified or not.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2019

The XSS flaw allows attackers to inject a JavaScript into the sites that redirect visitors to websites displaying scams, including tech support scams , and sites promoting unwanted software. Once deobfuscated, the script will create a new script tag with a source of [link] which will be injected into the head of the page.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 24, 2023

Most popular attachments by tags in Malwarebytes email telemetry We also saw it during the pandemic, masquerading as a health e-book sent from the World Health Organisation. How to avoid fake parcel scams Check your orders. GuLoader is a downloader with a chequered history, dating back to somewhere around 2011 in various forms.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 3, 2022

Sophos Firewall affected by a critical authentication bypass flaw Mar 20- Mar 26 Ukraine – Russia the silent cyber conflict Security Affairs newsletter Round 358 by Pierluigi Paganini Western Digital addressed a critical bug in My Cloud OS 5 CISA adds 66 new flaws to the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 31, 2023

A new FBI report reveals that Americans lost more than $10 billion last year to online scams and digital fraud. This is the first of a five-part series from Ed Amoroso of TAG Cyber exploring the risks to cloud email environments. People in their 30s, who are among the most connected online, filed the most complaints."

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Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2020

Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) shared its latest findings related to state-backed attacks and revealed that it has identified more than a dozen state-sponsored groups using COVID-19 lures. Across Google products, we’re seeing bad actors use COVID-related themes to create urgency so that people respond to phishing attacks and scams.”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The current website for Saim Raza’s Fud Tools (above) offers phishing templates or “scam pages” for a variety of popular online sites like Office365 and Dropbox. Helpfully, many of the faces in that photo have been tagged and associated with their respective Facebook profiles.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 3, 2023

Because of his account having been originally verified as himself , we now have a situation where a fake New York Times account says this: The profile is tagged as potentially being a legacy verified account or subscribed to Twitter Blue. This is good advice at the best of times, and it's definitely worth sticking to at present.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 4, 2022

If you do, we’ve got your back, and we humbly suggest that when you’re done tagging your dog in every photo and getting your folder names just so, you turn your attention to your device security and give that a little dust off as well. After all, nothing makes a bigger mess of your digital life than malware rummaging through it.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2021

He goes into more details in this thread: TAG sent a above average batch of government-backed security warnings yesterday. Everyone else should realistically be more concerned about common or garden malware, scams, phishes, and so on. That seems pretty conclusive.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Spur.us , a startup that tracks proxy services, told KrebsOnSecurity that the Internet addresses Lumen tagged as the AVrecon botnet’s “Command and Control” (C2) servers all tie back to a long-running proxy service called SocksEscort. SocksEscort[.]com com , is what’s known as a “SOCKS Proxy” service.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 14, 2021

While many users are concerned about scams on Instagram , or the threat of having their accounts hacked—they also don’t want to delete or deactivate their accounts. Check the Add Automatically option under Privacy > Tags to stop tagged photos from being added to your profile. Uninstall Instagram from your iPhone.

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SecureList

MARCH 24, 2022

Invisible HTML tags. See the example below, where chunks of text are hidden among junk HTML tags which do not appear on screen according to the information in the style sheet. See the example below, where chunks of text are hidden among junk HTML tags which do not appear on screen according to the information in the style sheet.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

On July 15, a number of high-profile Twitter accounts were used to tweet out a bitcoin scam that earned more than $100,000 in a few hours. One multi-factor option — physical security keys — appears to be immune to these sophisticated scams. A U2F device made by Yubikey, plugged into the USB port on a computer.

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Javvad Malik

OCTOBER 29, 2020

But hold on, Dillon is tagging along. When in haste we often make mistakes, fall for scams, or execute commands in production without checking them. Yes, it’s all very macho military – but it’s no different than running an incident recovery. You make a plan, go in, save the data, get out. This was a stroke of genius.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

There's a verification process where control of the domain needs to be demonstrated (email to a WHOIS address, DNS entry or a file or meta tag on the site), after which all aliases on the domain and the breaches they've appeared in is returned. At the time of writing, over 110k domain searches have been performed and verified.

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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. Also in the 1990s, the first online scams appeared. Phishing and scams: current types of fraud. They just need to sign up and pay a small fee. Distribution.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Phishing is also one of the prominent threats relating to scams and fraudulent offers that arrive in users’ inboxes. To put in simple terms, it refers to the process of providing a web application with JavaScript tags on input. Trust relationship. These vulnerabilities trigger a chain reaction. Irregular Updates.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 21, 2022

Exfiltrates the information using the pixtar() function which creates an image tag and sets the source to the exfiltration URL: artmodecssdev[.]art/secure/av/secure.php. The post Black Friday Scams: 4 Emerging Skimming Attacks to Watch for This Holiday Season appeared first on Security Boulevard. art/secure/av/secure.php. cdn-common[.]com.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 2, 2023

Some of you may have heard that students in UAB's Investigating Online Crimes class have been researching Crypto Investment Scam websites. Unfortunately, many of the people who became involved in the scam are innocent victims while others made fake Facebook accounts in order to scam others into signing up. I'm shocked!

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Malvertising gang ScamClub has exploited an unpatched zero-day vulnerability in WebKit-based browsers in a campaign aimed at realizing online gift card scams. “A typical ScamClub payload has a few layers to it, starting with an ad tag that loads a malicious CDN hosted dependency. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 11, 2024

Gov imposes visa restrictions on individuals misusing Commercial Spyware HPE is investigating claims of a new security breach Experts warn of a surge of attacks targeting Ivanti SSRF flaw How to hack the Airbus NAVBLUE Flysmart+ Manager Crooks stole $25.5

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

Upon executing the attached.vhdx file, researchers observed the creation of a new system drive (see Tag 1 in Fig. 3 below) containing a malicious.lnk file, a decoy file, and other system related files (see Tag 2 in Fig. Triggering the malicious shortcut file downloads another payload via curl command (see Tag 3 & 4 in Fig.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

A file that attempts to pass itself as ‘image/png’ but does not have the proper.PNG format loads a PHP web shell in compromised sites by replacing the legitimate shortcut icon tags with a path to the fake.PNG file.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Better not to take part in such embarrassing dancing campaigns and become a victim of some sort of scam. Thus, they started misinformation that could have misled US voters in the then elections as it was tagged as NSFW content.

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SecureList

AUGUST 23, 2021

There are long lists of tags under each post, designed to place the target pages at the top of web search results. This finely designed tournament page is nothing more than a scam that capitalizes on well-known and trusted brands. Need for Speed Heat. PLAYERUNKNOWN BATTLEGROUNDS. The Sims 4. Titanfall 2. Conclusion and advice.

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