CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Second is the news related to the leak of sensitive details belonging to over 20 million users created between the time frame of 2011 and 2019. NCSC is busy finding evidence on foreign indulgence, while Parliament’s cybersecurity team has confirmed that a foreign state launched the attack.

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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.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 24, 2023

GuLoader is a downloader with a chequered history, dating back to somewhere around 2011 in various forms. How to avoid fake parcel scams Check your orders. GuLoader, a perennial favourite of email-based malware campaigns since 2019, has been seen in the wild once again. Two years ago it was one of our most seen malspam attachments.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2022

From untargeted to very targeted… During the Japan tsunami and earthquake of 2011, a huge volume of scam attacks sank their claws into the disaster. We saw fake missing relative notices, bogus Red Cross websites, fake charity donation sites, 419 scams , and even radiation health e-books.

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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.

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Scams Passwords Media Accountability 73

Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

February 2011: Ross Ulbricht Creates the Silk Road Marketplace “I created Silk Road because I thought the idea for the website itself had value, and that bringing Silk Road into being was the right thing to do. The hidden service gained traction in 2011 and then hit the mainstream when a Gawker article about the site was published.

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Identity Theft Cryptocurrency Government Engineering 98

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

As a matter of fact, the most-reported crime in the 2021 Internet Crime Report report was phishing , a social engineering scam wherein the victim receives a deceptive message from someone in an attempt to get the victim to reveal personal information or account credentials or to trick them into downloading malware.

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Social Engineering Energy and Utilities Phishing Scams 118

Malwarebytes

JULY 21, 2021

In the aftermath of the Japanese Earthquake / Tsunami in 2011, identity assistance was in so much disarray generally that most ID scams we saw focused on pretending to be charities as opposed to victims.

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Identity Theft Social Engineering Accountability Scams 81

SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

It quickly became one of the biggest online shopping days of the year, and by 2011 consumers were spending $1.25 Beware of unsolicited emails that look like a coupon or promotion from a company; they could be a phishing scam that attempts to steal your credit card information. billion online on the Monday after Thanksgiving.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 28, 2023

Introduction: Dridex, also known as Cridex or Bugat, is a banking Trojan that has been active since 2011. Employee education: Educate employees on how to identify and avoid phishing scams, and to be cautious when opening email attachments or clicking on links.

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Banking Malware Backups Education 78

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

This quirk made the attack look more trustworthy and added a layer of flexibility to these scams. Balaban This ransomware was doing the rounds over spam generated by the Gameover ZeuS botnet, which had been originally launched in 2011 as a toolkit for stealing victim’s banking credentials and was repurposed for malware propagation.

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Elie

MARCH 17, 2018

since at least 2011. back in 2011. The apparent authenticity of its front explains why some reputable companies ended up being scammed by this group. This encryption is used to escape the signatures that detect the code that Gooligan borrows from previous malware. Android malware. For example, DroidDream. RageAgainstTheCage.

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Encryption Malware Marketing Manufacturing 82

Elie

MARCH 17, 2018

since at least 2011. back in 2011. The apparent authenticity of its front explains why some reputable companies ended up being scammed by this group. This encryption is used to escape the signatures that detect the code that Gooligan borrows from previous malware. Android malware. For example, DroidDream. RageAgainstTheCage.

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Encryption Malware Marketing Manufacturing 82

Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Ayesha fled Libya shortly after the Battle of Tripoli back in 2011. The scammers can’t even get this right; Aisha has had four children , but two of them were killed during the fighting in 2011. What’s the impact of the scam here? Many of these scams involve you sending scanned copies of passports or other forms of ID.

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Identity Theft Scams Banking Government 92

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

In 2021, that hostname appeared in SMTP messages reported as a “romance scam” in a popular romance and dating scam tracking forum. In fact, since 2019, the hostname has linked a wide range of eCrime activities such as ransomware and data extortions, info-stealing malware spreading, botnet infections, and scams.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

” Messages to and from a money mule working for Aqua’s crew, circa May 2011. “The illegal money often comes from criminal activities like phishing, malware attacks, online auction fraud, e-commerce fraud, business e-mail compromise (BEC) and CEO fraud, romance scams, holiday fraud (booking fraud) and many others.”

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Cybercrime Banking Small Business Accountability 220

SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

This is a typical example of the kind of old-school text-message scams that were popular in 2011 and 2012. Trojan-SMS.AndroidOS.ado(4.02%) ranked sixth in the TOP 20 list of mobile malicious programs. Their enduring relevance is a surprise.

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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. CERT-GIB’s findings indicate that phishing attack perpetrators have revised their so-called target pool.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Blaauw’s company bought the 12,500 square-meter Netherlands bunker from Mr. Xennt in 2011 for $700,000. Guido Blaauw, in front of the original CyberBunker facility in the Netherlands, which he bought from Mr. Xennt in 2011. Image: Blaauw. Media reports indicate that in 2002 a fire inside the CyberBunker 1.0

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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.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 10, 2018

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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