The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2022

And, let’s be honest , the deceptive writing phishing assaults and other cyber threats today employ are skilled enough to fool even the most trained, internet-savvy experts. That said, here are what I consider to be the Top 5 online threats seniors face today: •Computer tech support scams. Internet and email fraud.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 29, 2020

The FBI is warning of online romance scams and related financial losses, overall losses associated with those complaints exceeded $475 million. Crooks behind romance scams use fake online identities to establish a contact with the potential victims and gain their trust. ” reads the alert published by the FBI.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 10, 2020

Most people who who filed a tax return in 2018 and/or 2019 and provided their bank account information for a debit or credit should soon see an Economic Impact Payment direct-deposited into their bank accounts. More importantly, it appears one doesn’t really need to supply one’s AGI in 2018.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

New research indicates that half of all phishing scams are now hosted on Web sites whose Internet address includes the padlock and begins with “[link]. That’s up from 25 percent just one year ago, and from 35 percent in the second quarter of 2018. But not all phishing scams get flagged so quickly.

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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. The security flaw was briefly alluded to in a 2018 writeup on U-Admin by the SANS Internet Storm Center. The U-Admin phishing panel interface.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2024

The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) 2023 report states that reported cybercrime losses reached $12.5 The 2023 Internet Crime Report published the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reveals that reported cybercrime losses reached $12.5 billion in 2023. billion in 2023. billion in 2022 to $4.57 million.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

Welcome to Internet Safety Month, a once-a-year event in which you, the public, are told that anywhere between three and 30 different best practices will simplify your approach to staying safe online. This year, then, for Internet Safety Month, we’re packaging our advice a little differently. None of these situations are hypotheticals.

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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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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Meanwhile, security experts argue that even in cases where online abusers provide intentionally misleading or false information in WHOIS records, that information is still extremely useful in mapping the extent of their malware, phishing and scamming operations.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

In July 2018, email users around the world began complaining of receiving spam which began with a password the recipient used at some point in the past and threatened to release embarrassing videos of the recipient unless a bitcoin ransom was paid.

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Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Along with legitimate “Now Hiring” signs dotting retail stores and restaurants across the United States, job ads are popping up in social media feeds, the internet and inboxes promising some extraordinarily well-paying jobs — if applicants provide their Social Security numbers and other details upfront.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The general manager of Escrow.com said he suspected the call was a scam, but decided to play along for about an hour — all the while recording the call and coaxing information out of the scammer. One multifactor option — physical security keys — appears to be immune to these advanced scams.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s 2019 annual Internet Crime Report included 467,361 complaints about suspected internet crime with losses of $3.5 billion in BEC scam-related losses the year before. The report also noted an uptick in BEC scams targeting payroll funds in 2019. It’s Time to Do Something.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2020

Here are key takeaways: Romance scams Like many modern companies, Zoosk, the popular San Francisco-based dating site, rests on infrastructure that’s predominantly cloud-based. And the next step we saw was romance scams. “The unfortunate fact of the matter was that we did see customers falling prey to romance scams.

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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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Malwarebytes

MAY 1, 2025

Phishing In phishing scams, cybercriminals trick people and businesses into handing over sensitive information like credit card numbers or login details for vital online accounts. The hackers hijacked the channels to spread cryptocurrency scams, while deleting some of the groups old videos in the process.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

These individuals said they were only customers of the person who had access to Twitter’s internal employee tools, and were not responsible for the actual intrusion or bitcoin scams that took place that day. ALWAYS IN DISCORD. Voku is one of several hacker handles used by a Canton, Mich.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In 2023, the public primarily confronted two varieties of online scams: the technical and the topical. Technical scams abuse legitimate aspects of modern internet infrastructure to lead users to illegitimate or compromised sites. Topical scams, on the other hand, are simpler.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 22, 2022

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (ic3.gov) gov) has released their 2021 Internet Crime Report. For several years, the #1 Cybercrime type has been Business Email Compromise followed by the #2 of Romance Scam. For several years, the #1 Cybercrime type has been Business Email Compromise followed by the #2 of Romance Scam.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2019

The FBI published a security advisory to warn of cyber actors using online dating sites to conduct confidence/romance scam and recruit money mules. The FBI published a security advisory to warn of confidence/romance scams turning victims into money mules. ” reads the advisory. located in a foreign country, U.S.

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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. RaaS rollout 2015 – 2018.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

Fraudulent domains are often used for malicious activities, such as phishing and scams. “These domain names can trick people into believing they are legitimate and are often used for phishing, fraud and scams.” SecurityAffairs – scam, Namecheap). ” reads the advisory published by Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2018

” It is common for Web sites to keep a record of the numeric Internet Protocol (IP) address of all visitors, and those addresses can be used in combination with online geolocation tools to glean information about each visitor’s hometown or region. . Currently, that update is slated to be released in mid-July 2018.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

In 2018, security researchers discovered a perfect copy of Reddit.com, one of the five most-visited sites online, under the domain name Reddit.co (.co The opportunities for scams are numerous when a single missing letter can take a would-be victim to a completely separate site. Examples of typosquatting are easy to come by.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2020

billion in 2018. billion in 2018. Most financially devastating threats involved investment scams, business email compromises (BEC) , and romance fraud. These figures suggest that cybercrime is becoming more profitable than other criminal activities, such as the illegal drug trade. Financial losses reached $2.7

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

On July 20, the attackers turned their sights on internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare.com , and the intercepted credentials show at least five employees fell for the scam (although only two employees also provided the crucial one-time MFA code). That’s down from 53 percent that did so in 2018, Okta found. ”

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 26, 2021

As part of this mindset, more consumers are subscribing to a personal VPN service which they use to shield themselves from disinformation sweeps and to protect themselves from Covid 19-related hacks and scams. 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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The Security Ledger

APRIL 24, 2019

billion to Internet-enabled theft, fraud and exploitation in 2018, with business e-mail compromise scams resulting in the highest of these financial losses, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). in Losses in 2018 appeared first on The Security Ledger. Organizations lost $2.7

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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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

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. One multi-factor option — physical security keys — appears to be immune to these sophisticated scams. Thus, the second factor cannot be phished, either over the phone or Internet.

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The Last Watchdog

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

The nonstop intensity of these attacks is vividly illustrated by the fact that malicious bot communications now account for one-third of total Internet traffic. This activity can be seen at any moment of any day by examining the volume of malicious botnet traffic moving across the Internet.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

It's just another day on the internet when the news is full of headlines about accounts being hacked. The second story was about a number of verified Twitter accounts having been "hacked" and then leveraged in Bitcoin scams. link] — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 6, 2018. — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 7, 2018.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2019

” BEC attacks represent a serious threat for businesses, according to the recently released 2018 Internet Crime Report by FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), BEC scams reached $1,2 billion in profits. . “They have determined the breach was limited to only two email accounts.”

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

At the 2018 Winter Olympic Games held in PyeongChang, for instance, cyber criminals leveraged a previously unknown family of malware called Olympic Destroyer to attack the Games’ servers just before the opening ceremony. We urge you to take precautions to protect your personal information when you are on the Internet.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 24, 2021

We’ve received a number of similar reports from people that have been scammed or simply wanted to alert us. The first thing to do is disconnect your machine from the Internet. Although this company was incorporated in 2018, the scammers have been active since at least 2015 and used several different domain names and identities.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Deepfakes have settled into a groove, as most scam techniques do. One curious twist we may not have seen coming is the mashup of deepfake and romance scam , though this is a natural fit in many ways. This is where things become really interesting in terms of how the scam got off the ground. Tips for avoiding romance scams.

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