Pen Test Partners

JANUARY 29, 2024

This post is about how we did it Finally, not shown in the piece, we spent time helping the targets understand how we found the data and showing them how to secure their online presence Bank scams and how to avoid them, with Alexis Conran We were asked to help make a TV show about the information that people share online being abused by scammers.

Scams 81

Scams Passwords Media Accountability 81

Elie

MARCH 17, 2018

since at least 2011. back in 2011. 19% of the infections were from India, and the top eight countries affected by Gooligan accounted for more than 50% of the infections. The apparent authenticity of its front explains why some reputable companies ended up being scammed by this group. Android malware. RageAgainstTheCage.

Encryption 82

Encryption Malware Marketing Manufacturing 82

Elie

MARCH 17, 2018

since at least 2011. back in 2011. 19% of the infections were from India, and the top eight countries affected by Gooligan accounted for more than 50% of the infections. The apparent authenticity of its front explains why some reputable companies ended up being scammed by this group. Android malware. RageAgainstTheCage.

Encryption 82

Encryption Malware Marketing Manufacturing 82

Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2020

Thus, the number of phishing attacks on cloud storages nearly doubled last year, while Internet providers have seen the three-fold increase in the number of phishing scams targeting them. Figure 3 Top-10 threats hiding in phishing emails in H2 2019 and extension of attached malicious files.

Phishing 88

Phishing Spyware Banking Malware 88

SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

In particular, advertisers can display targeted offerings, and attackers can access accounts with various services, such as online banking. For example, an attacker could log in to a victim’s Facebook account and post a phishing link or spread spam. Attacks on personal data. Their enduring relevance is a surprise.

Mobile 145

Mobile Malware Adware Banking 145

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 357

Antivirus Cybercrime Identity Theft Scams 357

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

People who responded to recruitment messages were invited to create an account at one of these sites, enter personal and bank account data (mules were told they would be processing payments for their employer’s “programmers” based in Eastern Europe) and then log in each day to check for new messages. indep: Yeah.

Cybercrime 308

Cybercrime Banking Small Business Accountability 308

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.

Identity Theft 99

Identity Theft Accountability Social Engineering Scams 99

Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

From the first Roomba in 2002 to the first virtual assistant (Siri) in 2011, AI has slowly and steadily penetrated the consumer technology market, often with little comprehension from buyers that artificial intelligence is actually powering the functionality behind their favorite devices.

Cybersecurity 94

Cybersecurity Artificial Intelligence Social Engineering Engineering 94