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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

According to the latest figures (PDF) released by the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), the reported losses from BEC scams continue to dwarf other cybercrime loss categories, increasing to $1.86 billion in 2020. Indeed, perhaps this enterprising Nigerian scammer is just keeping up with current trends.

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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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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Back in 2016, the primary focus of our expert was on major cybergangs that targeted financial institutions, banks in particular. Many used browsers that they were accustomed to, not browsers of choice, or default browsers set by organizations, such as the Internet Explorer. The year 2016 saw banks in Russia hacked one after another.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Experts at Cisco Talos and other security firms quickly drew parallels between the two mass spam campaigns, pointing to a significant overlap in Russia-based Internet addresses used to send the junk emails. EARLY WARNING SIGNS.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

remember Sydney being referred to as “The Internet Olympics”. The London Olympics—the one where James Bond and the definitely real Queen jumped out of a helicopter —was a massive splash of malicious activity in internet terms. In terms of actual attacks which took place, we see the rise of mobile as a way in for Olympics scams.

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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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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The above-mentioned AIDS Trojan hailing from the distant pre-Internet era was the progenitor of the trend, but its real-world impact was close to zero. This quirk made the attack look more trustworthy and added a layer of flexibility to these scams. The infamous Locky ransomware was first spotted in the wild in February 2016.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

billion in 2016, for instance. In addition, even simple training or quizzes on how to spot a phishing attack will help individuals to avoid being caught up in a scam or a potential attack. Acohido is dedicated to fostering public awareness about how to make the Internet as private and secure as it ought to be.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2018

I quickly informed my contact at All American and asked them to let me know the moment they confirmed the data was removed from the Internet. Just like my speaker bureau, Apollo had simply put all this data up on an Amazon server that anyone on the Internet could access without providing a password. I declined the offer.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 5, 2022

Over US $43 billion has been lost through Business Email Compromise attacks since 2016, according to data released this week by the FBI. The post $43 billion stolen through Business Email Compromise since 2016, reports FBI appeared first on The State of Security.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2021

LW: How long were these S3 buckets likely to have been sitting on the Internet, accessible to anyone with the keyboard skills to find and copy the data? We’ve seen some of the buckets were accessible and got archived as back as 2016. Hakçil: There is no way for us to know if it has been discovered by bad actors.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Phishing scams remain such a widely used attack vector because of their efficiency. The potential rewards for very little effort make phishing scams highly attractive attack vectors requiring minimal technical knowledge. Some phishing scams are so convincing that they can fool even seasoned security professionals. IoT Devices.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The number of sensors and smart devices connected to the internet is exponentially rising, which are the 5 Major Vulnerabilities for IoT devices. Before we dive into the specific cybersecurity concerns, let us remind you about the attack that took place in October 2016. Malware, phishing, and web. Trust relationship.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Internet service providers (ISPs) and computer emergency readiness teams (CERTs) around the world also supported the operation by notifying all infected users. Trickbot has been active since 2016, at the time the authors of the author designed it to steal banking credentials. ” concludes Microsoft.

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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 Affairs

JUNE 21, 2022

In 2021, the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) received reports of BEC scams in all 50 states and 177 countries. The total BEC/EAC statistics reported to the FBI IC3, law enforcement and derived from filings with financial institutions between June 2016 and December 2021 exceeds 43$ billion.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

Crooks hacked other celebrity Instagram accounts to push scams. MMD-0063-2019 – Summarize report of three years MalwareMustDie research (Sept 2016-Sept 2019). Smominru Botnet continues to rapidly spread worldwide. Commodity Malware Reborn: The AgentTesla Total Oil themed Campaign.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A few highlights: $43 billion were stolen between June 2016 and December 2021. Immediately report any online fraud or BEC activity to the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center at ic3.gov/Home/BEC. We may have to revise that entry since threat actors are now targeting physical goods as well. gov/Home/BEC.

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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. Alongside this were “more than 160 internet domains”. Once they logged in, credentials were forwarded on to add another string in the “massive scam” bow.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 4, 2022

With nearly 200 million websites active today, according to an August 2022 survey conducted by NetCraft, and more being added daily, the Internet is the primary vector for malware to creep into an organization. GOIL alerted their customers to these sorts of scams in an August 2022 Facebook post. Check Out The Scammers’ Playbook.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Percentage of financial phishing attacks (of the overall phishing attacks) detected by Kaspersky, 2016 – 2021 ( download ). American Express phishing scams also have held consistent over the years with 10% in 2021. A noticeable development was the prominence of cryptocurrency-related phishing scams. As many as 41.8%

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NopSec

FEBRUARY 9, 2017

The year 2016 will be remembered for some big moments in the world of cybersecurity: the largest known distributed denial of service (DDoS) attack, a phishing attack on a United States presidential candidate’s campaign, and ransomware attacks on major healthcare organizations are just a few. For a preview, read on. Malware linked to the U.S.

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Elie

AUGUST 31, 2017

I couldn’t find recent data on this, so in July I ran a survey to ask US internet users about their backup habits. However, paying the ransom is ill-advised (although it is open for debat) as there is still a chance that the victim will be scammed. To illustrate this, let’s look at a. real Locky ransom payment.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Consider the case of Juicero, an Internet of Things (IoT) device that could be controlled wirelessly and allowed you to… make juice. In 2016 the Touch Bar was created. The Internet has been awash in keyboard and dongle jokes, poking not-so-good-natured fun at Apple and the MacBook Pros, ever since. Not really.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 20, 2024

in 2022 and updated it in 2023 with more due diligence recommendations for employers to avoid falling for the scam. Employers in other countries have also fallen victim to this North Korean IT worker scam. Identify HMIs that dont need to be accessible from the internet and take them offline. x Benchmark v2.1.1

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

2000 Children’s Internet Protection Act (CIPA): Requires K–12 schools to restrict children’s exposure to obscene digital content, monitor the online activity of minors, and educate students about appropriate behavior on the internet. When students turn 18, those rights are transferred to them.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

held a pilot of a new Internet voting system. In 2016, Logan Lamb, a former Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher, found over 6 million voter registration files exposed on a state-sponsored server at Kennesaw State college in Georgia. More individual states’ voting systems were exposed and also addressable from the internet.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 29, 2020

held a pilot of a new Internet voting system. In 2016, Logan Lamb, a former Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher, found over 6 million voter registration files exposed on a state-sponsored server at Kennesaw State college in Georgia. More individual states’ voting systems were exposed and also addressable from the internet.

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ForAllSecure

OCTOBER 20, 2020

held a pilot of a new Internet voting system. In 2016, Logan Lamb, a former Oak Ridge National Laboratory researcher, found over 6 million voter registration files exposed on a state-sponsored server at Kennesaw State college in Georgia. More individual states’ voting systems were exposed and also addressable from the internet.

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

Going back a bit, it was also the top attack vector in 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, and well, hopefully, you get the picture. URLs within the email may also link to malware or might be connected to an ad-click scam. Why should I care about Phish? The reason why phishing is still reigning supreme? Figure 2: Spam.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

The leaked records indicate the network’s chief technology officer in Pakistan has been hacked for the past year, and that the entire operation was created by the principals of a Tennessee-based telemarketing firm that has promoted USPS employment websites since 2016. com was legitimate or a scam. com , postaljobscenter[.]com

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Security Affairs

MAY 2, 2022

They continuously send and receive data via the internet and can be the easiest way for a hacker to access your home network. ‘Twas a simple phishing scam that brought Twitter down! Never connect IoT devices and equipment directly to the internet. And so, the data breaches keep getting bigger.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

org was an organization hosted at CyberBunker registered to Sven Kamphuis , a self-described anarchist who was convicted several years ago for participating in a large-scale attack that briefly impaired the global Internet in some places. Kamphuis was later arrested in Spain on the DDoS attack charges.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Email has become incredibly important to billions of internet users. Outside the fearsome headlines, the lives of ordinary people are regularly hijacked through scams, account takeovers, and data leaks. You sign into everything with your email address so it’s also the de facto identity layer of the internet.

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Security Affairs

MAY 16, 2019

I started this research on September 2016, when I started writing my my book, “The Prison of the Humanity – from the deep web to 4.0 An Iceberg has always been used as a visual representation of the Internet world. It is very easy to access to the Tor network or browse content on other anonymizing networks like I2P.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

He was quoted as saying that he and his co-conspirators would steal the data and if Tesla refused to pay the ransom the company's secrets would be placed on the internet. At the start of March 2021, Microsoft rushed out patches for a critical zero-day Vulnerability in Exchange Server (2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019). Covid Fraud: £34.5m

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