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Mastermind: Social Engineering, BEC Attacks, Millions in Cash and Crypto

SecureWorld News

Then there was the money laundering, the cryptocurrency, the digital wallets. Business email compromise scheme and social engineering. Social engineering—in person—was the next part of the scheme. The funds included those from a 2019 North Korean-perpetrated cyber-heist of a Maltese bank. Too many do.

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Threat Actors Merging Malicious Activity With Cryptocurrency Show How the Attack Landscape is Developing in Decentralized Finance

Security Boulevard

Current threat actor activity is incentivized by a broad attack surface represented through high volumes of users and systems, and high potential profits represented through the variety of cryptocurrency offerings. It is easy to detect and block things like malicious cryptocurrency apps or crypto-phishing websites.

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Cyberthreats to financial organizations in 2022

SecureList

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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Ransomware Revival: Troldesh becomes a leader by the number of attacks

Security Affairs

Ransomware accounted for over half of all malicious mailings in H1 2019, Troldesh aka Shade being the most popular tool among cybercriminals. The report’s findings reveal that email remains the main method of delivering ransomware, banking Trojans, and backdoors. The revival of ransomware.

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Mobile malware evolution 2020

SecureList

In 2020, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected: 5,683,694 malicious installation packages, 156,710 new mobile banking Trojans, 20,708 new mobile ransomware Trojans. If you look at the dynamics of attacks on mobile users in 2020, you will see that the average monthly number of attacks decreased by 865,000 compared to 2019.

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State of Cybercrime 2020: FBI Report

SecureWorld News

This scam is most often used when an attacker compromises legitimate email accounts through social engineering or computer intrusion techniques. In 2020, the IC3 observed an increase in the number of BEC/EAC complaints related to the use of identity theft and funds being converted to cryptocurrency. Ransomware.

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North Korea Cyber Threat Group ‘Lazarus’ Targets M1 Mac with Signed Executables

Security Boulevard

To get to their targets, the attackers used social engineering via LinkedIn “hiding behind the ruse of attractive, but bogus, job offers,” ESET said, adding that it was likely part of the Lazarus campaign for Mac and is similar to research done by ESET in May.