Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2019

billion bad ads in 2018, including 58.8 Google introduced 31 new ads policies in 2018, aiming at protecting users from scams and other fraudulent activities (i.e. ” Malicious ads that Google took down in 2018 include nearly 207,000 ads for ticket resellers and over 531,000 ads for bail bonds. “We took down 2.3

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 7, 2018

Police in Florida have arrested a 25-year-old man accused of being part of a multi-state cyber fraud ring that hijacked mobile phone numbers in online attacks that siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from victims. A WORRIED MOM. GRAND PLANS.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 26, 2021

02, 2020, pitching him as a trustworthy cryptocurrency expert and advisor. One day after last summer’s mass-hack of Twitter , KrebsOnSecurity wrote that 22-year-old British citizen Joseph “PlugwalkJoe” O’Connor appeared to have been involved in the incident. BAD REACTION. “They can come arrest me.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Security experts from Cisco Talos have uncovered two recent sextortion scam campaigns that appear to leverage on the Necurs botnet infrastructure. The scammer demands a payment in cryptocurrency for not sharing the video. 30, 2018 through Oct. 26, 2018 — 58 days’ worth of spam.” ” concludes Talos.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In 2018, Fortnite gamers were targeted by scammers pushing Trojan.Malpack files as Fortnite freebies. Researchers at Cluster25 spotted similar activity , targeting a multitude of interests including how-to guides, cryptocurrency, VPN software, and more. Tips to avoid scams. We’ve seen similar attacks like this previously.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2018

An entrepreneur and virtual currency investor is suing AT&T for $224 million, claiming the wireless provider was negligent when it failed to prevent thieves from hijacking his mobile account and stealing millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies. On June 11, 2017, Terpin’s phone went dead.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2020

users Thousands of WordPress WooCommerce stores potentially exposed to hack. users Thousands of WordPress WooCommerce stores potentially exposed to hack. users Thousands of WordPress WooCommerce stores potentially exposed to hack. users Thousands of WordPress WooCommerce stores potentially exposed to hack.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

a very strange scam attempt. a very strange scam attempt. a very strange scam attempt. a very strange scam attempt. a very strange scam attempt. Paper Copy. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

According to Russian prosecutors, the scam went like this: Consumers would receive an SMS with links to sites that falsely claimed a number of well-known companies were sponsoring drawings and lotteries for people who enrolled or agreed to answer surveys. A Google-translated snippet of the hacked ChronoPay Confluence installation.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

EOSBet Gambling application hacked, crooks stole $200,000 worth of EOS. New XBash malware combines features from ransomware, cryptocurrency miners, botnets, and worms. Evolution of threat landscape for IoT devices – H1 2018. Adobe issued a critical out-of-band patch to address CVE-2018-12848 Acrobat flaw.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Shopin founder charged by SEC for running $42 million scam cryptocurrency ICO. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged the founder of Shopin , Eran Eyal, for allegedly running $42 million scam ICO. Unfortunately, fraudulent ICOs are not a rarity over the years the media reported several cases of exit scams.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

We should expect more fraud, targeting mostly BTC , because this cryptocurrency is the most popular. In fact, from January through the end of October, Kaspersky detected more than 2,300 fraudulent global resources aimed at 85,000 potential crypto investors or users who are interested in cryptocurrency mining.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

The New York Times last week ran an interview with several young men who claimed to have had direct contact with those involved in last week’s epic hack against Twitter. ” Twice in the past year, the OGUsers forum was hacked , and both times its database of usernames, email addresses and private messages was leaked online.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

SCHOOL OF HACKS. Primarily, that includes any social media and email accounts, as well as associated financial instruments such as bank accounts and any cryptocurrencies. On July 15, a number of high-profile Twitter accounts were used to tweet out a bitcoin scam that earned more than $100,000 in a few hours. Image: urlscan.io.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Thus, during the World Cup a brand-new scam appeared: it offered users to win a newly released iPhone 14 for predicting match outcomes. These sites referenced public figures and humanitarian groups, offering to accept cash in cryptocurrency, something that should have raised a red flag in itself.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Security firm Group-IB has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 Group-IB, an international company that specializes in preventing cyber attacks, has estimated that in H2 2017-H1 2018 cyber attacks caused $49.4 million (2.96 billion rubles) of damage to Russia’s financial sector. million (2.96 million (2.96

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

It could be compromised directly or by hacking the account of someone with access to the website management. Cybercriminals also used to hack into servers of organizations to use them as relay servers to throw investigators off the scent and make it harder to trace the main C&C center. million USD) monthly.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Crooks are exploiting the popularity of Elon Musk and a series of hacked verified Twitter accounts to implement a new fraud scheme. Crooks are exploiting the popularity of Elon Musk and a series of hacked verified Twitter accounts (i.e. in a simple as effective scam scheme. in a simple as effective scam scheme.

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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. By selling fake raffle tickets for the promotion, the scammers raked in $438,000 worth of cryptocurrency. Do use a cybersecurity app.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 15, 2019

Unsettling new claims have emerged about Nicholas Truglia , a 21-year-old Manhattan resident accused of hijacking cell phone accounts to steal tens of millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies from victims. Truglia allegedly struck up a conversation about booking private jets with his cryptocurrency. “Gradually, I got to know Nick.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 28, 2023

But what opened opportunities for scamming is a system's tendency for abuse. Sometimes, OBN orchestrates a setup by hacking an account himself to post content deemed inappropriate in Instagram's terms of service (ToS) and then reports the account. The cryptocurrency wallet to which she sends payments belongs to OBN.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Despite the Executive Order, it is important to note that the Department of Justice did not need the urging of the White House to establish procedures for addressing Cryptocurrency. That original report characterized the illicit uses of cryptocurrency into three broad categories of criminality: . The Bitqyck case and the $2.4

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2020

In H2 2019, as part of its work to detect and prevents threats distributing online, Group-IB’s Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT-GIB) blocked a total of 8, 506 phishing web resources, while in H2 2018, the figure stood at 2,567.This SecurityAffairs – phishing attacks, hacking). Balance of power. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureList

MARCH 7, 2024

Some of the scam sites discovered promised to reimburse a certain sum to the customers of a major international telecommunications company. Alongside the usual get-rich-doing-nothing and paid survey scams, we encountered a few less conventional scenarios. Scam sites also used cryptocurrency as bait.

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Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The massive shift to work from home in response to the Covid-19 pandemic has meant a rush to secure a wider range of home devices and networks, and an instant spike in demand for training and services that protect employees in identifying attempted cyberattacks and scams. Economic stimulus checks were targeted.

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