Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

. “Possible options include, for example, bot admin panels, code injection panels, shell control panels, payment card sniffers, traffic direction services, exchange services, spamming software, doorway generators, and scam pages, etc.” ” From 2013 to 2016, upO was a major player on Exploit[.]in

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Security experts from Digital Shadows have conducted an interesting study about the technique adopted by crooks to infiltrate company emails, so-called BEC scam. According to the FBI , the number of business email account (BEC) and email account compromise (EAC) scam incidents worldwide reached 78,000 between October 2013 and May 2018.

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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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Heimadal Security

JUNE 2, 2022

However, in 2016, the Java-based client was mostly phased out in favor of a standalone C++ […]. The post New RuneScape Phishing Scam Aimed at Stealing Accounts and In-game Item Bank PINs appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

“According to this actor, he had originally intended to send his targets—all senior-level executives—phishing emails to compromise their accounts, but after that was unsuccessful, he pivoted to this ransomware pretext,” Hassold wrote. billion in 2020. Open our letter at your email.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Back in 2016, the primary focus of our expert was on major cybergangs that targeted financial institutions, banks in particular. It could be compromised directly or by hacking the account of someone with access to the website management. This browser attack chain, popular in 2016, is no longer possible.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

” The operation was carried out in coordination with the FBI and authorities in Australia, which was particularly hard hit by phishing scams perpetrated by U-Admin customers. “Universal Admin,” is crimeware platform that first surfaced in 2016. The U-Admin phishing panel interface. Image: fr3d.hk/blog.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

.” The government says from 2006 until the service’s takedown, Liberty Reserve processed an estimated 55 million financial transactions worth more than $6 billion, with more than 600,000 accounts associated with users in the United States alone. Attorney for the Southern District of New York — went unanswered.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

The most interesting incident was probably a fake opening ceremonies website serving infections , via promotion from a bogus Twitter account. In terms of actual attacks which took place, we see the rise of mobile as a way in for Olympics scams. Here, you’d get nothing but survey scams. 2016 Rio de Janeiro. 2012 London.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Internal Revenue Service website for months: Anyone seeking to create an account to view their tax records online would soon be required to provide biometric data to a private company in Virginia — ID.me. com, which was fed by pig butchering scams. ” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 29, 2022

When someone finds their social media account compromised, they first think about letting their followers know. Well, you know what they say about cakes… Despite warnings by the account owner to avoid being ripped off by whoever took over their account, the page looks absolutely, positively normal. And they do.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

But as he began digging deeper, Guilmette came to the conclusion that the spammers were exploiting an obscure — albeit widespread — weakness among hosting companies, cloud providers and domain registrars that was first publicly detailed in 2016. EARLY WARNING SIGNS. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com). SPAMMY BEAR.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

In recent months we observed a surge in crypto-scams due to the continuous increase of the value of popular cryptocurrency schema, $7.12 billion were lost due to scams. The percentage increase in the number of scams per year is up by 850% in the last decade. Threat actors stole $3.18 Increase in money lost to crypto breaches.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

A similar campaign in 2016 was used to spread malware to anyone who had the bad luck of typing Netflix.om The opportunities for scams are numerous when a single missing letter can take a would-be victim to a completely separate site. and Citibank.om (.om om is the domain suffix for Oman).

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Joseph Steinberg

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A former Cisco engineer was sentenced this past Wednesday (December 9, 2020) to 24 months in prison (and a $15,000 fine) for accessing Cisco’s network, and subsequently causing a service outage of Cisco’s WebEx Teams video conferencing service. Million in damage (including $1 Million of refunds to impacted customers and $1.4

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2021

Cybercriminals are abusing Facebook ads in a large-scale phishing scam aimed at stealing victims’ login credentials. Threat actors are using Facebook ads to redirect users to Github accounts hosting phishing pages used to steal victims’ login credentials. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Facebook).

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

billion in 2016, for instance. There are simple steps consumers can take today, for free, to lower their overall risk of a cyber attack, including using multi-factor authentication for their accounts and using strong passwords. A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then. billion in 2017; Avast acquired AVG for $1.3

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

In the world of online scams, criminals care about one thing: Your money. Earlier this year, a woman in Tennessee was fooled in an online dating scam by a thief who stole $390,000 of her money. Still, there are a few things you can do to best protect yourself from falling for an online scam. Don’t ruin your device.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Unsurprisingly, this is also the time of year where we see an increase in tax-related scams. From unsolicited phone calls claiming you owe money to the IRS to bogus tech support with your accounting software, fraudsters are just one step away from robbing you. Use security software that blocks phishing domains and other scam sites.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The experts found an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster that was containing personally identifiable information on Russian citizens spanning from 2009 to 2016. “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.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2020

American citizens lost over $6,000,000 due to these individuals’ BEC fraud schemes, in which they impersonated business executives and requested and received wire transfers from legitimate business accounts.” Between early 2015 and September 2016, Uzuh and an accomplice engaged in BEC fraud targeting over 100 businesses in a single.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Large companies have also fallen prey to these phishing email scams. In February 2016, Snapchat learned that not all things are so short-lived. In February 2016, Snapchat learned that not all things are so short-lived. In February 2016, an unknown cybercriminal gained access to CEO Kensett Moyle’s email account.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

The technique is really simple as it only requires an email account that sends messages to itself containing stolen credentials for each victim that executed the malware on their computer. pw accounts, various scams). Back then, they performed classic scams under the Rita Bent moniker. From 419 scams to Agent Tesla.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2019

” The investigation on the scam operations in Spain started in 2016, crooks targeted victims in China. In the fraud scheme, the criminals impersonate Chinese authorities and attempt to trick victims into transferring money to accounts controlled by the scammers. SecurityAffairs – phone scam, online fraud).

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 5, 2022

The flaw allowed anyone to send emails on behalf of Uber, meaning they would end with “ @uber.com “, just like the one below: The proof-of-concept (PoC) email that Seif sent to his Gmail account while testing the Uber email server flaw. Suffice to say, there is a lot of scamming potential here. The post Careful!

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2022

According to court documents, Igwilo was charged in 2016 in the US District Court, Southern District of Texas, Houston, Texas for “one count of wire fraud conspiracy, one count of money laundering conspiracy and one count of aggravated identity theft.”

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Security Affairs

JUNE 21, 2022

The identified resources in one of the malicious campaigns impersonate various services appearing to be legitimately created on the “azurefd.net” domain – This allows the bad actors to trick users and spread phishing content to intercept credentials from business applications and e-mail accounts.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 17, 2018

pic.twitter.com/ZJSDF2VMzv — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 23, 2016. Having watched this pattern play out over the years, the offending Twitter accounts do seem to eventually realise that the strategy is either ineffective or simply pisses too many people off and cease the spam after a little while.

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Adam Levin

JULY 23, 2020

A similar campaign in 2016 was used to spread malware to anyone who had the bad luck of typing Netflix.om The opportunities for scams are numerous when a single missing letter can take a would-be victim to a completely separate site. and Citibank.om (.om om is the domain suffix for Oman).

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 10, 2024

But since 2016, Nkwenya had actually been making it under another business: Creating counterfeit driver's licenses to enable a multitude of romance frauds and scams. Nkwenya started advertising his ability to create counterfeit drivers licenses in or before 2016. Nkwenya was not only creating the counterfeit driver's licenses.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2021

MI5 said the faked LinkedIn accounts are created and operation by nation-state spy agencies, with an intent to recruit individuals or gather sensitive information. Millions in the UK Targeted by Malware via a DHL Scam Text Message. Millions of UK citizens received a scam text message (aka smashing) which impersonated DHL in April.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 11, 2022

There’s not many individual scams which can put “18 years and counting” on their resume. Of course, this was tied into a nonsensical scam about recovering lots of lost money should he be brought safely back. To be more precise, 2010, 2016, and now 2022 with a whole new astronaut to recover. spaaaaaaaaaace.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

Losses continue to mount, and we’re currently facing a scam racking up domestic and international losses of $43 billion. 43 billion vanished between June 2016 and December 2021. 6 tips to avoid BEC scams. Email accounts? This comes hot on the heels of an earlier release from the Las Vegas FBI department in April.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

A bug in Instagram exposed user accounts and phone numbers. Crooks hacked other celebrity Instagram accounts to push scams. MMD-0063-2019 – Summarize report of three years MalwareMustDie research (Sept 2016-Sept 2019). Once again thank you! Delaler Leads, a car dealer marketing firm exposed 198 Million records online.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

As Brian Krebs notes, this tactic has been around for some years and was spotted in 2016 being sent out via Skype spam. Now they're being used in a scam based on Amazon's popular Prime membership. Fake Amazon login The phishing site asks for an email or phone number tied to an Amazon account. Don't take things at face value.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 7, 2022

This particular scheme had been rumbling along since “at least” 2016, and the accused individual worked in the publishing industry. According to the FBI, multiple fake email accounts were created, impersonating real people in the publishing space. Not only that, but also publishing houses and talent agencies.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Malwarebytes' own glossary entry for BEC says: “A business email compromise (BEC) is an attack wherein an employee, who is usually the CFO or someone from the Finance department, is socially engineered into wiring a large sum of money to a third-party account.". In May 2022 we discussed some numbers published by the FBI. gov/Home/BEC.

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