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Security Affairs
JULY 16, 2020
Social media platform Twitter has suffered one of the biggest cyberattacks in its history, hackers breached a number of high-profile accounts, including those of Barak Obama, US presidential candidate Joe Biden, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Uber, and Apple. “You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000.”
Security Boulevard
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Europol correctly describes the primary method of SIM-swapping when they say in the press release above, "This is typically achieved by the criminals exploiting phone service providers to do the swap on their behalf, either via a corrupt insider or using social engineering techniques.". How do Phone Company Insiders enable these scams?
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Krebs on Security
DECEMBER 29, 2022
You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. The now-defunct and always phony cryptocurrency trading platform xtb-market[.]com,
Security Affairs
JULY 19, 2020
Last week, the social media platform Twitter has suffered one of the biggest cyberattacks in its history, hackers breached a number of high-profile accounts, including those of Barak Obama, US presidential candidate Joe Biden, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Uber, and Apple. SecurityAffairs – hacking, social engineering).
Security Affairs
OCTOBER 20, 2020
Group-IB assisted Paxful, an international peer-to-peer cryptocurrency marketplace, in countering web-bot and social engineering attacks. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.
Security Affairs
JULY 24, 2020
Twitter explained is was victim of a”coordinated social engineering attack” against its employees who gave attackers the access to its internal tools. All the accounts were compromised simultaneously and threat actors used them to promote a cryptocurrency scam. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Twitter).
Malwarebytes
APRIL 28, 2021
We’re no strangers to the Twitter customer support DM slide scam. We first observed the technique used on gamers back in 2014, and it eventually branched out into bank phishing. Trust Wallet is an app used to send, receive, and store Bitcoin along with other cryptocurrencies, including NFTs. Shall we take a look?
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