SecureList

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

The Kaspersky Anti-Phishing component blocked 434,898,635 attempts at accessing scam sites. The most frequent targets of phishing attacks were online stores (18.12 Contact us to lose your money or account! The contact phone trick was heavily used both in email messages and on phishing pages. Agentb malware family.

Phishing 139

Phishing Malware Scams Accountability 139

CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 1, 2022

Security research carried out by CloudSEK has found that over 3000+ mobile applications were exposing Twitter’s API keys, thus providing access to twitter accounts fraudulently. Now, the employee is no more linked to the social media giant and will face the trial for indulging in fraudulent practices in 2015.

Mobile 120

Mobile Media Accountability Cryptocurrency 120

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

In May 2015, KrebsOnSecurity briefly profiled “ The Manipulaters ,” the name chosen by a prolific cybercrime group based in Pakistan that was very publicly selling spam tools and a range of services for crafting, hosting and deploying malicious email. Also we are running business since 2006.”

Software 246

Software Phishing Cybercrime Accountability 246

Security Affairs

APRIL 17, 2020

Google says that the Gmail malware scanners have blocked around 18 million phishing and malware emails using COVID-19 lures in just one week. Google announced that its anti-malware solutions implemented to defend its Gmail users have blocked around 18 million phishing and malware emails using COVID-19 lures within the last seven days.

Phishing 113

Phishing Malware Government Small Business 113

Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

Group-IB uncovered a new sophisticated phishing campaign, tracked as PerSwaysion, against high-level executives of more than 150 companies worldwide. . PerSwaysion is a highly-targeted phishing campaign. New round of phishing attempts leveraging current victim’s account usually takes less than 24 hours. Gone in 24 Hours.

Phishing 90

Phishing Accountability Financial Services Cloud Migration 90

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.

Scams 191

Scams Accountability Media Banking 191

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.

Phishing 100

Phishing Malware Spyware DDOS 100

Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2020

A cybercrime gang focused on Business Email Compromise (BEC) has started using coronavirus-themed scam emails in its attacks. The researchers received a coronavirus-themed scam email that attempted to trick victims into using a different bank account for the payment due to the COVID-19 outbreak. A change of the bank account).

Scams 104

Scams Banking Cybercrime Advertising 104

Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

What is Phish(ing)? But, never mind the dozens of other reports and white papers about phishing that come out every year from security industry leaders, let’s take a look at the 2021 Verizon DBIR. Why should I care about Phish? The reason why phishing is still reigning supreme?

Phishing 52

Phishing Accountability Social Engineering Mobile 52

Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

While looking for threats targeting Ukraine, we identified a group we call “Nigerian Tesla” that has been dabbling into phishing and other data theft activities for a number of years. pw accounts, various scams). Back then, they performed classic scams under the Rita Bent moniker. Test successful!

Malware 76

Malware Scams Phishing Accountability 76

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.

Scams 94

Scams Hacking Data collection Advertising 94

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 8, 2023

Faced with customers trying to use WormGPT to create ransomware and phishing scams, the 23-year-old Portuguese programmer who created the project now says his service is slowly morphing into “a more controlled environment.” ” SlashNext asked WormGPT to compose this BEC phishing email. . Image: SlashNext.

Malware 220

Malware Cybercrime Advertising Phishing 220

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 5, 2022

On New Year’s Eve, Seif Elsallamy ( @0x21SAFE on Twitter), a bug bounty hunter and security researcher, pointed out a phish-worthy security flaw he found on Uber’s email system. Knowing that this can be done by anyone opens multiple phishing opportunities for the would-be scammer. Source: @0x21SAFE on Twitter). The post Careful!

Phishing 105

Phishing Scams Data breaches Marketing 105

Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

million phishing ads for violation of its policies. Google introduced 31 new ads policies in 2018, aiming at protecting users from scams and other fraudulent activities (i.e. million phishing ads. . million phishing ads. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Phishing 80

Phishing Advertising Scams Cryptocurrency 80

Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2020

Kaspersky researchers found over 30 fraudulent websites and social media profiles disguised as official movie accounts (the actual number of these sites may be much higher) that supposedly distribute free copies of the latest film in the franchise.” Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Phishing 75

Phishing Malware Advertising Media 75

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

IC3 says that the losses reported by victims between 2015 and 2019 counted for $10.2 The most frequently reported complaints were related to phishing attempts, non-payment/non-delivery scams, and extortion. The most frequently reported complaints were p hishing and similar p loys, non-payment/non-delivery scams, and extortion.”

Internet 107

Internet Internet Scams Cybercrime 107

Security Affairs

APRIL 23, 2020

Across Google products, we’re seeing bad actors use COVID-related themes to create urgency so that people respond to phishing attacks and scams.” One notable phishing campaign observed by Google’s experts targeted personal accounts of U.S. ” reads the post published by Google. government employees.

Phishing 118

Phishing Government Accountability Advertising 118

Security Affairs

JANUARY 16, 2019

Security researchers at Check Point have discovered several flaws in the popular game Fortnite that could be exploited to takeover gamers’account. One of the flaws is an OAuth account takeover vulnerability that could have allowed a remote attacker to takeover gamer accounts tricking players into clicking a specially crafted link.

Accountability 63

Accountability Authentication Advertising Phishing 63

Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. 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.

Scams 81

Scams Phishing Advertising DDOS 81

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 -->. About Group-IB. Pierluigi Paganini.

Scams 75

Scams Media Advertising Accountability 75

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2019

Experts have uncovered an ongoing phishing campaign targeting the United Nations and NGOs, including UNICEF and UN World Food. Security firm Lookout uncovered an ongoing spear-phishing campaign aimed at NGOs, including human rights organizations such as the Red Cross, UNICEF, the UN World Food and the UN Development programs.

Phishing 42

Phishing Mobile Advertising Scams 42

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 20, 2023

“Unauthorised transactions made with the help of lost or stolen credit cards, counterfeit cards, ID document forgery and identity theft, fake identification, email phishing, and imposter scams are among the most common types of payment fraud today.” Cloud technologies also play an important role in the latest anti-fraud developments.

Artificial Intelligence 100

Artificial Intelligence Identity Theft Telecommunications Big data 100

Hot for Security

APRIL 5, 2021

The leaked data includes phone numbers, Facebook IDs, full names, location, past location, date of birth, account creation data, relationship status, bio and some email addresses. Information of millions of users was stolen and posted online by threat actors in 2015. What type of data was leaked? ” What should users expect?

Data breaches 133

Data breaches Identity Theft Social Engineering Media 133

Security Affairs

AUGUST 25, 2019

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is warning of an active IRS impersonation scam campaign sending spam emails to distribute malware. The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) issued an alert to warn taxpayers of a new scam campaign distributing malware. See Report Phishing and Online Scams for more details.”

Malware 77

Malware Computers and Electronics Scams Passwords 77

Troy Hunt

APRIL 12, 2021

I have to be aware that phishing scams may be used against me. The second problem is that you don't need a data breach to get spam, unsolicited phone calls or phishes. Spam, unsolicited phone calls and phishes don't just come from data breaches and it's enormously difficult to reliably attribute them back to a source.

Data breaches 347

Data breaches Phishing Scams Advertising 347

Security Affairs

JUNE 7, 2019

In October 2017, the city of Fort Worth, Texas became the target of a phishing scam. Their accounts payable department received an email that appeared to be from Imperial Construction, a company that was doing business with the city at the time. Fadipe, requested a change of account. However, this wasn’t the case.

Cybersecurity 100

Cybersecurity Scams Banking Accountability 100

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.

Phishing 55

Phishing Spyware Banking Malware 55

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. .”

Cryptocurrency 78

Cryptocurrency Scams Cybercrime Phishing 78

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

” The expert confirmed that the database did not contain financial data or account passwords. “In the wrong hands, cybercriminals could use the information stored in the database to scam and phish Town Sports customers and employees.” ” concludes Comparitech. Pierluigi Paganini.

Data breaches 85

Data breaches Phishing Passwords Advertising 85

Security Affairs

MAY 3, 2020

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Scams 93

Scams Advertising DDOS Hacking 93

Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2020

The measure was necessary to prevent spear-phishing attacks against the users aimed at stealing credentials or at delivering malware designed to steal their funds. Please reset your password for account security — Poloniex Customer Support (@PoloSupport) December 30, 2019. charlysatoshi.

Passwords 57

Passwords Cryptocurrency Data breaches Advertising 57

Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

In response to the incident, the bidding portal has forced a password reset for all users’ accounts, both bidder and auctioneer ones. Experts warn that attackers can use the PII in the data dump to carry out phishing campaigns, online and offline scams, and even identity theft. million LiveAuctioneers users.

Hacking 95

Hacking Data breaches Identity Theft Advertising 95

Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

According to research from Chainalysis , SSNDOB received “$22 million worth of Bitcoin across over 100,000 transactions” since 2015. We’ve noted the gradual emergence of Bitcoin ATMs in scams previously; here, cryptocurrency ATMs are more popular as a payment method to SSNDOB than other dubious online services.

DDOS 104

DDOS Cryptocurrency Scams Data breaches 104

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

. “The first database contained more than 14 million personal and tax records from 2010 to 2016, and the second included over 6 million from 2009 to 2015.” The exposed data could be used by threat actors to carry out tax scam and frauds. ” ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Identity Theft 69

Identity Theft Scams Advertising Risk 69

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 5, 2018

Cybaze ZLab spotted a new scam campaign that is targeting some of its Italian customers, crooks leverage credentials in Breach Compilation archive. Security experts from Cybaze ZLab have spotted a new scam campaign that is targeting some of its Italian customers. One of their customers received a scam message in a poor Italian-writing.

Scams 75

Scams Data breaches Passwords Advertising 75

Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2020

Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. users Thousands of WordPress WooCommerce stores potentially exposed to hack. Pierluigi Paganini.

Data breaches 54

Data breaches Hacking Advertising Ransomware 54

Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2020

Attackers obtain victims’ information by launching a phishing campaign, or by purchasing them in the underground market. Crooks used the duplicates to receive directly to their phones the second-factor authentication codes used by banks to confirm fraudulent transfers to accounts under theirs control. ”continues Europol. .

Banking 111

Banking Cybercrime Mobile Accountability 111