2017 Cybercrime Scams Social Engineering 
SecureWorld News
SEPTEMBER 9, 2021
That's because Ghaleb Alaumary motivated teams of criminals to commit cybercrime, financial crime, and to collectively steal tens of millions of dollars. Cybercrime ringleader confesses to conspiracies. Business email compromise scheme and social engineering. Social engineering—in person—was the next part of the scheme.
Malwarebytes
JUNE 8, 2021
A Latvian woman has been charged for their alleged role in a transnational cybercrime organisation. Money mules and spear phishing are thrown into the mix alongside social engineering and international theft of money, personal, and confidential information. Big scams, big numbers. What happened this week, you ask?
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SC Magazine
APRIL 8, 2021
No wonder scam artists are taking notice and jumping on the bandwagon. Shashi Prakash, chief technology officer and chief scientist at Bolster, told SC Media that NFTs are especially ripe for scamming right now because of the very fact that some people are chasing this fad without really understanding how the process works.
eSecurity Planet
SEPTEMBER 14, 2022
Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. Finance and insurance companies were particularly vulnerable to the sort of phishing scams we’re talking about. Social Tactics.
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 19, 2020
Allen said a typical voice phishing or “vishing” attack by this group involves at least two perpetrators: One who is social engineering the target over the phone, and another co-conspirator who takes any credentials entered at the phishing page and quickly uses them to log in to the target company’s VPN platform in real-time.
eSecurity Planet
APRIL 23, 2021
Since 2017, host Jack Rhysider has investigated some of the most noteworthy stories related to the darkside of the internet, specifically hacking, data breaches, and cybercrime. Through interviews and research, Ran connects the dots between the early days of cybercrime and today’s stories of data hacks and breaches.
The Last Watchdog
MAY 11, 2020
These developments would have, over the next decade or so, steadily and materially reduced society’s general exposure to cybercrime and online privacy abuses. So as of a few months ago, the US now requires data containerization along much the same lines as Saudi Arabia and the UAE first mandated in 2017.
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