Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2021

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center has released its annual report, the 2020 Internet Crime Report , which includes data from 791,790 complaints of suspected cybercrimes. billion and authorities observed an increase of more than 300,000 complaints from 2019 (+69%). million in 2019 to over $29.1 billion in losses.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The Dutch police started the investigation in March 2021 following a complaint of data theft and threats from a large Dutch company. The investigation revealed that probably thousands of national and international small and large organizations were hacked by the suspects that also attempted to extort money from the victims.

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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, or roughly half, of the total losses in 2019 were attributed to generic email account compromise (EAC) complaints. billion in BEC scam-related losses the year before.

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Security Affairs

JULY 10, 2022

The company highlight the risks of identity theft or phishing attacks in case their data have been compromised. The gang has been active since at least 2019 and today it is one of the most active ransomware gangs. SecurityAffairs – hacking, ransomware). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 2, 2019

On September 30th, 2019, the financial institution began sending out data breach notifications to the impacted, the notice informed them that the former employee potentially used the data for fraudulent activities, including identity theft and financial frauds. SecurityAffairs – American Express, cybercrime).

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The global pandemic and the increase of remote workers has led to a surge in online video conferencing using tools such as Zoom and Google Meet - Zoom alone has tripled its user base since 2019. Why do hackers want to hack our webcams?”

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Experts uncovered a new tool dubbed BIOLOAD used by the FIN7 cybercrime group used as a dropper for a new variant of the Carbanak backdoor. The samples of BIOLOAD loader analyzed by the experts were compiled in March and July 2019, while the samples of BOOSTWRITE were compiled in May. ” Fortinet concludes.

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Identity IQ

AUGUST 20, 2021

And perhaps one thing that is way down on their to-do list is to consider how vulnerable their identity is to cybercriminals. Truth be told: cybercrimes against students continue to rise, especially against those who report to university campuses and use university resources. That can open doors for hackers. Turn the auto-updates on.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

The creator of the infamous Kelihos Botnet , Peter Yuryevich Levashov (38) pleaded guilty this week to computer crime, fraud, conspiracy and identity theft charges. Yuryevich Levashov (38), the botmaster of the dreaded Kelihos Botnet pleaded guilty this week to computer crime, fraud, conspiracy and identity theft charges.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The global pandemic and the increase of remote workers has led to a surge in online video conferencing using tools such as Zoom and Google Meet - Zoom alone has tripled its user base since 2019. Why do hackers want to hack our webcams?”

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Passwords Identity Theft VPN Authentication 52

Identity IQ

MAY 7, 2021

Account takeover, also known as ATO, is a form of identity theft in which a malicious third party gains access to or “takes over” an online account. It’s one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity threats today, growing a staggering 300% since 2019 and leading to consumer losses of $3.5 What is Account Takeover?

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2021

Google noted a more than 600% spike in phishing attacks in 2020 compared to 2019 with a total of 2,145,013 phishing sites registered as of January 17, 2021, up from 1,690,000 on Jan 19, 2020. So did the 2020 Twitter hack. The most imitated brands of 2020 clearly illustrate the social engineering effort that goes into cybercrime.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

It’s a good idea to prepare for cybercrime, and whenever possible avoid becoming a victim of it. The incidence of ransomware attacks has continued to climb, over 700% by some estimates in 2020 in comparison to 2019, with phishing emails being the primary vector.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

” The malware was present with different timeframes for each location, “the general timeframe beginning October 1, 2018 through May 29, 2019.” Rutter’s customers should also file a complaint with the Federal Trade Commission and a police report in case of fraud or identity theft.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 4, 2021

Which means when a cybercrime forum gets hacked and its user databases posted online, it is often possible to work backwards from some of the more unique passwords for each account and see where else that password was used. As I described in a 2019 story about an interview Fly gave to a Russian publication upon his release from a U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 19, 2021

military and government employees and giving it to an Islamic State hacker group in 2015 has been charged once again with fraud and identity theft. In the years leading up to his arrest, Ferizi was the administrator of a cybercrime forum called Pentagon Crew. He admitted to hacking a U.S.-based

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Jane Frankland

OCTOBER 1, 2021

For example, a group known as Cosmic Lynx, who’ve been operating since April 2019, meticulously research their M&A targets, craft their email campaigns and set up a secondary email chain that appears to be from a major law firm who is brokering the deal. Now the payoffs from an attacker’s perspective can be huge.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

O’Connor was already indicted for his alleged involvement in a massive Twitter hack that took place on July 2020, at the time the attackers hijacked a number of high-profile accounts, including those of Barak Obama, US presidential candidate Joe Biden, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos, Bill Gates, Elon Musk, Uber, and Apple.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

Aviram Azari (52) was sentenced to 80 months in prison for computer intrusion, wire fraud, and aggravated identity theft in connection with his involvement in a massive spear-phishing campaign targeting companies and individuals in the U.S. The man was arrested in September 2019 while traveling to the U. and around worldwide.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 13, 2020

Cybercrime nearly always increases during times of crisis as criminals take advantage of panic and unease. The COVID-19 pandemic is certainly no exception, but victims of cybercrime often don’t know where to turn for help. Kristin Judge, founder of the Cybercrime Support Network, hopes to change that. billion in victim losses.

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Security Affairs

MAY 1, 2023

However, the compromised personally identifiable information can expose customers to identity theft, for this reason, T-Mobile is offering them two years of free credit monitoring and identity theft detection services, provided by myTrueIdentity, from Transunion.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2019

For many years and until quite recently, credit card data stolen from online merchants has been worth far less in the cybercrime underground than cards pilfered from hacked brick-and-mortar stores. That figure was more than two and a half times higher than a year earlier. BIG BANG VS. LOW-AND-SLOW.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2023

The dump was released on February 28, it was published through the Russian-speaking cybercrime forum XSS. The decision to release free samples aims at attracting new customers and gain notoriety in the cybercrime ecosystem. million payment card data dating from 2019 to 2022 on a cybercrime forum. An archive containing 2.1

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Herjavec Group

AUGUST 26, 2021

We can learn a lot from the cybercrime of the past…the history of cybercrime is a glimpse into what we can expect in the future. In the past 18 months, we’ve experienced the beginning of an era that has seen cybersecurity and cybercrime at the center of it all. Dateline Cybercrime . Robert Herjavec.

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Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Banking Hacking 135

Adam Levin

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Many of the contact tracing scams of 2020 similarly followed social engineering scripts that have been used in taxpayer identity theft schemes since the 1990s as well. As with any potential cybercrime, deterrence here will be aided by an awareness of what deepfakes are, how they work, and what they can and can’t do.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 2, 2020

And it wasn’t because the media paid more attention to this relative newcomer in the area of cybercrime. Ransomware attacks on businesses skyrocketed 365 percent in 2019, and all signs point to more of the same in 2020. Your Cliffs Notes version: Put yourself in a position where you can’t be affected by such a hack.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 27, 2020

He pleaded guilty last week in a Virginia court to access device fraud and conspiracy to commit computer intrusion, identity theft, wire fraud and money laundering. Vovnenko also served as administrator of his own cybercrime forum, which he used in 2013 to carry out a plan to have Yours Truly framed for heroin possession.

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