Malwarebytes

JULY 21, 2021

We’ve written at length about account compromise and identity theft , and how criminals will often hijack accounts belonging to dead people. The amount of abandoned accounts due to death can only ever go up, and nobody is really paying attention if someone accesses them illicitly. Digging into identity theft.

Identity Theft 81

Identity Theft Social Engineering Accountability Scams 81

Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

You probably use the deep web all the time — examples may include bank accounts, your email, and login-restricted content such as news or streaming entertainment. The hidden service gained traction in 2011 and then hit the mainstream when a Gawker article about the site was published. From 2011 to 2013, the Silk Road hosted 1.2

Identity Theft 98

Identity Theft Cryptocurrency Government Engineering 98

Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

Junk email campaigns touting employment or “money mule” scams cost $300 per million, and phishing emails could be blasted out through Severa’s botnet for the bargain price of $500 per million. One was Alan Ralsky , an American spammer who was convicted in 2009 of paying Severa and other spammers to promote pump-and-dump stock scams.

Antivirus 297

Antivirus Cybercrime Identity Theft Scams 297