Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The FBI’s Internal Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report , a document that outlines cybercrime trends over the past year. The figure that most of all capture our attention is that victims of cybercrime activities lost $3.5 BEC scams resulted in more than $1.7 Billion in 2019.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

” ProtonMail confirmed to be aware of a limited number of hacked accounts that have been compromised likely through credential stuffing of phishing attacks, but excluded that its systems have been breached. This is a very strange and anomalous scam attempt, the hackers used a mix of appealing info and political data.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2022

According to cybersecurity experts , this may be used for political propaganda, foreign influence activity, disinformation, scams, and fraud. . California-based Resecurity has identified a new spike of underground services enabling bad actors to generate deepfakes.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2020

Group-IB’s CERT-GIB analyzed hundreds of coronavirus -related phishing emails and discovered top malware strains in COVID-19 campaigns. Group-IB’s Computer Emergency Response Team ( CERT-GIB ) analyzed hundreds of coronavirus-related phishing emails between February 13 and April 1, 2020. Spyware: the most likely COVID-19 payload.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

Day after day the number of COVID19-themed attacks increases, fraudsters have launched a phishing campaign to deliver on users’ PC. The COVID19-themed attacks continue to increase, experts warn of thousands of COVID-19 scam and malware sites are being created every day. SecurityAffairs – COVID19 , cybercrime).

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The fraudsters behind the often laughable Nigerian prince email scams have long since branched out into far more serious and lucrative forms of fraud, including account takeovers, phishing, dating scams, and malware deployment. The FBI says BEC scams netted thieves more than $12 billion between 2013 and 2018.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2020

New York Attorney General asks domain registrars, including GoDaddy, and Namecheap, to crack down on coronavirus scam sites. The Coronavirus-themed attacks continue to increase, experts warn of thousands of COVID-19 scam and malware sites are being created every day. SecurityAffairs – COVID, cybercrime). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Here’s a look at some of the more notable cybercrime stories from the past year, as covered by KrebsOnSecurity and elsewhere. 24, Russia invades Ukraine, and fault lines quickly begin to appear in the cybercrime underground. com, which was fed by pig butchering scams.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2020

” Crooks set up websites that look like related to the official movie, the websites are designed to deliver the malware or for phishing purposes. We advise users to not fall for such scams and instead enjoy the end of the saga on the big screen.”. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2019

West carried out phishing scams against hundreds of companies since 2015, he stole financial data of tens of thousands of customers and then sold that information on cybercrime underground forums. He predominately used ‘phishing’ email scams to obtain the financial data of tens of thousands of customers.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2020

The Coronavirus-themed attacks continue to increase, experts warn of thousands of COVID-19 scam and malware sites are being created every day. The sites are employed in a broad range of attacks, including phishing attacks, frauds, and malware-based attacks. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2020

According to Group-IB’s data, the first scams to sell fake digital passes appeared in late March, when the Moscow authorities tightened self-isolation requirements and restricted travel around the capital city. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2020

Group-IB, a Singapore-based cybersecurity company, observed the growth of the lifespan of phishing attacks in the second half of 2019. Figure 1 The distribution of web-phishing among target categories . CERT-GIB’s findings indicate that phishing attack perpetrators have revised their so-called target pool. Target reshuffle.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2020

European authorities dismantled two cybercrime organizations responsible for stealing millions through SIM hijacking. European authorities managed to dismantle the operations of two cybercrime gangs responsible for stealing millions through SIM hijacking. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2020

. “Since January, we have seen an increase of 30,000% in phishing, malicious websites, and malware targeting remote users—all related to COVID-19. “Phishing attacks based around COVID-19 targeted corporations as well as consumers. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Phishing : 1274 attacks a day . Another type of fraud that pose a serious threat to customers is phishing websites that are looking to steal money or personal information (login credentials or credit card details). According to Group-IB Brand Protection experts, 1274 phishing attacks are carried out daily.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

For example, the startup Proteus Digital Health back in 2014 created sensor-enabled pharmaceuticals that received hundreds of millions of dollars in investments. The graph below shows the changes in the number of vulnerabilities in the MQTT protocol from 2014 to 2021. This trend, first noted in 2020, continued in 2021.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

This quirk made the attack look more trustworthy and added a layer of flexibility to these scams. The CryptoLocker wave went into a decline in June 2014 as a result of the so-called Operation Tovar , an initiative orchestrated by law enforcement agencies from multiple countries. These included PClock, CryptoLocker 2.0,

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 5, 2020

According to the experts, the same individual was responsible for phishing attacks and scam attempts on his forum mates.” ” “According to information on underground forums, this person is responsible for account stealing, carding, malware distribution, and even the phishing and scamming of his forum mates.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

They were helped in one of their attacks by members of the group Anunak , which had not conducted at attack of this kind since 2014. Attacks on bank customers: The decline of Android Trojans and the triumph of phishing. Using web phishing, criminals have managed to steal $3.7 They account for 80% of all financial phishing sites.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

They profited from a scam, popular some time before, which sold “magic pills” — counterfeit drugs and dietary supplements purported to cure even serious chronic diseases. This scam’s elderly victims spent hundreds and thousands of dollars on the products, borrowing from friends and taking loans. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Banking Scams Social Engineering Advertising 81

Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2019

According to the investigation conducted by the FBI and Brunswick police, hackers broke into the parish’s email system, likely via a phishing attack. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2019

The man targeted with spear-phishing emails Google and Facebook employees who “regularly conducted multimillion -dollar transactions with” Quanta representatives. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 2, 2019

This is a typical scam aimed at tricking users into visiting third-party websites ranging from the resources, that entice a victim to sign up for expensive paid subscriptions and install unwanted programs, to malicious websites,” says Ilya Rozhnov. “For Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

According to the Data Quality Campaign , 45 states and Washington, DC, enacted new student privacy laws between 2014 and 2020. They also need to safeguard children against inappropriate online content, cyberbullying, scams, and other nebulous digital threats. Require phishing-resistant MFA.

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