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Who’s Behind the ‘Web Listings’ Mail Scam?

Krebs on Security

The story concluded that this dubious service had been scamming people and companies for more than a decade, and promised a Part II to explore who was behind Web Listings. “It is also criticized for being a cult, a scam and a pyramid scheme,” the entry reads. In December 2018, KrebsOnSecurity looked at how dozens of U.S.

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The Olympics: a timeline of scams, hacks, and malware

Malwarebytes

And while actual, measurable cyberrattacks and hacks surrounding The Olympics did not truly get rolling until 2008 in Beijing, The Olympic games have traditionally been quite the target for malicious acts of all kinds, dating back years. 2008 Beijing. Here, you’d get nothing but survey scams. Shall we take a look? 1996 Atlanta.

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How Internet Savvy are Your Leaders?

Krebs on Security

But it wasn’t until the past week that it become clear how many organizations — including towns, cities and political campaigns — actually have fallen for this brazen scam. As such, it’s likely this phony company has scammed a ridiculous number of consumers over the years, Guilmette observed.

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FBI Arrests Alleged Owner of Deer.io, a Top Broker of Stolen Accounts

Krebs on Security

was a now-defunct shop called “Dedushka” (“grandpa” in transliterated Russian), a service offering aged, fake Vkontakte accounts that was quite popular among crooks involved in various online dating scams. For example, one early adopter of deer.io Isis responds that he hasn’t owned the site for 10 years.

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Stark Industries Solutions: An Iron Hammer in the Cloud

Krebs on Security

md , a website launched in 2008 that chronicled the history of a 1990 armed conflict in Moldova known as the Transnistria War and the Moldo-Russian war. Cyber intelligence firm Intel 471 shows this email address is tied to the username “ dfyz ” on more than a half-dozen Russian language cybercrime forums since 2008.

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App Store Security: Apple stops $2B in fraud in 2024 alone, $9B over 5 years

Security Affairs

Apple blocked over $9B in fraud in 5 years, including $2B in 2024, stopping scams from deceptive apps to fake payment schemes on the App Store. Since its 2008 launch, Apples App Store has grown into a trusted platform for users and a thriving space for developers. million attempts to install unauthorized apps. billion it processed.

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Malicious Actors Hijacked Bitcoin.org

Heimadal Security

Bitcoin.org was hijacked by hackers and got altered in order to push a scam. Bitcoin.org is an information portal for the top cryptocurrency, founded in August 2008 by Bitcoin’s pseudonymous founder Satoshi Nakamoto, containing information on Bitcoin, including the original whitepaper and developer documentation.