Krebs on Security

JUNE 30, 2021

A counterfeit check image [redacted] that was intended for a person helping this fraud gang print and mail phony checks tied to a raft of email-based scams. the “car wrap” scam ). ” A typical confirmation letter that accompanies a counterfeit check for a car wrap scam.

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Tech Republic Security

JUNE 2, 2020

BEC scams accounted for half of all cybercrime losses in the US in 2019, according to Check Point Research.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

is cybercrime forum. “We can examine your (or not exactly your) PHP code for vulnerabilities and backdoors,” reads his offering on several prominent Russian cybercrime forums. The cybercrime actor “upO” on Exploit[.]in RedBear’s profile on the Russian-language xss[.]is

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

22 on RAMP , a new and fairly exclusive Russian-language darknet cybercrime forum. Fortinet said the credentials were collected from systems that hadn’t yet implemented a patch issued in May 2019. Few journalists realized that this was all a show, a fake, and a scam! ” reads the Oct. Groove was first announced Aug.

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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. “At one stage in 2019 we had a couple of hundred SMS phishing campaigns tied to just this particular actor. The U-Admin phishing panel interface.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In February 2020, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about being contacted by an Internal Revenue Service investigator seeking to return funds seized seven years earlier as part of the governments 2013 seizure of Liberty Reserve , a virtual currency service that acted as a $6 billion hub for the cybercrime world.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2024

A study by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) presented in 2019 revealed that deepfakes generated by AI could deceive humans up to 60% of the time. For a monthly fee, attackers can access sophisticated services that automate the creation of fraudulent emails, increasing the efficiency of their scams.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2021

Also, this greenhorn criminal clearly had bought into BriansClub’s advertising, which uses my name and likeness in a series of ads that run on all the top cybercrime forums. In late 2019, BriansClub changed its homepage to include doctored images of my Social Security and passport cards, credit report and mobile phone bill information.

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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. Likewise, people drawing Social Security payments from the government will receive stimulus payments the same way.

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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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Krebs on Security

MARCH 10, 2020

was a now-defunct shop called “Dedushka” (“grandpa” in transliterated Russian), a service offering aged, fake Vkontakte accounts that was quite popular among crooks involved in various online dating scams. ru , a cybercrime forum in its own right that called itself “ The Antichat Mafia.”

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Identity IQ

APRIL 2, 2021

The recent Federal Bureau of Investigations Internet Crime Report shows that cybercrime has spiked, leaving hundreds of thousands of victims and costing more than $4 billion. The FBI received a record number of reports last year totaling 791,790, a 69% growth from 2019. billion in 2019 to $4.2 Phishing Scams.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2021

In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage settlement giant First American Financial Corp. The SEC took aim at First American because a few days after our May 24, 2019 story ran, the company issued an 8-K filing with the agency stating First American had no prior indication of any vulnerability.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

In May 2015, KrebsOnSecurity briefly profiled “ The Manipulaters ,” the name chosen by a prolific cybercrime group based in Pakistan that was very publicly selling spam tools and a range of services for crafting, hosting and deploying malicious email. One of several current Fudtools sites run by The Manipulaters. FAIL BY NUMBERS.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 6, 2020

These scams rely on the failure of a subordinate employee to recognize a cleverly spoofed email directive. BEC campaigns accounted for an estimated $26 billion in cybercrime-related losses reported to the FBI over a three year period. No arrests have been made. The FBI refers to this type of grift as Business Email Compromise, or BEC.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Having been in the field for so long, we have witnessed some major changes in the cybercrime world’s modus operandi. This report shares our insights into the Russian-speaking cybercrime world and the changes in how it operates that have happened in the past five years. Conclusion: cybersecurity and cybercrime have matured.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Launched in November 2019, OTP Agency was a service for intercepting one-time passcodes needed to log in to various websites. Text messages, emails and phone calls warning recipients about potential fraud are some of the most common scam lures. Three men in the United Kingdom have pleaded guilty to operating otp[.]agency

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Unfortunately, scams are a fact of life online. There is a lot of good advice around (and plenty of it on this website) to help you understand which scams are popular right, how they work, and how to spot them. SMS scams are not the same as email scams, and neither has much in common with a romance scam.

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Threatpost

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

Cybercriminals double down on successful internet scams, with a focus on phishing, BEC and other defrauding schemes that have proven to work.

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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

MARCH 16, 2019

In the wake of the New Zealand mosque shooting, the CISA recommends users to remain vigilant on possible scams and malware attacks. — YouTube (@YouTube) March 15, 2019. The post US-CERT warns of New Zealand mosque shooting scams and malware campaigns appeared first on Security Affairs. Source: The Financial Times.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 30, 2022

Have you recently noticed an increase in the number of random scam texts being sent your way? The FCC says it has received a substantial increase in the number of complaints from consumers about robotexts, so it wants to provide information to help everyone avoid being scammed. Do not respond or click on any links in the message.

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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. “just dont want my irl getting sus[pended].” ALWAYS IN DISCORD.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Here’s a look at some of the more notable cybercrime stories from the past year, as covered by KrebsOnSecurity and elsewhere. 24, Russia invades Ukraine, and fault lines quickly begin to appear in the cybercrime underground. com, which was fed by pig butchering scams.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 24, 2019

. ” Shoval shared a document link he’d been given by First American from a recent transaction, which referenced a record number that was nine digits long and dated April 2019. According to the FBI, BEC scams are the most costly form of cybercrime today.

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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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Schneier on Security

JULY 10, 2020

A criminal group called Cosmic Lynx seems to be based in Russia: Dubbed Cosmic Lynx, the group has carried out more than 200 BEC campaigns since July 2019, according to researchers from the email security firm Agari, particularly targeting senior executives at large organizations and corporations in 46 countries.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

These services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. su between 2016 and 2019. FORUM ACTIVITY?

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Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2019

StopSextortion [link] pic.twitter.com/W9E5CJ6PvT — FBI (@FBI) July 3, 2019. link] pic.twitter.com/ES7oeE1HSd — FBI (@FBI) June 25, 2019. ” The FBI provided the following answers to those interested in have more info on the sextortion scams: What is sextortion? Sending one explicit image can start a scary cycle.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2020

European authorities dismantled two cybercrime organizations responsible for stealing millions through SIM hijacking. European authorities managed to dismantle the operations of two cybercrime gangs responsible for stealing millions through SIM hijacking. SecurityAffairs – SIM Hijacking, cybercrime). ”continues Europol.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 22, 2021

The FBI notes that the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has been key to its mission to track cybercrimes. The IC3 "provides the public with a trustworthy source for information on cyber criminal activity," and also is a useful tool for victims to report a cybercrime. The IC3 received 19,369 reports of BEC/EAC scams in 2020. "In

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The cybercrime gang announced that it will no longer leak data of new companies infected with their ransomware. it was considered one of the most prominent and active ransomware crew since it began operating in May 2019. The gang was the first to introduce a double-extortion model in the cybercrime landscape at the end of 2019.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

Especially during Valentine’s Day and the season of love, singles looking to make that special love connection via an online dating app need to be particularly aware of online romance scams. As the use of these online platforms has increased, so has the number of reported romance scams. Romance scams on the rise.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Threat actors involved in tech support scams have been running a browser locker campaign from November 2020 until February 2021 on the world’s largest adult platforms including PornHub. In all, we detected close to 100 decoy domain names set up as “advertising landing pages” used to redirect victims to browser locker scams.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 17, 2023

The international police organization INTERPOL said last week it had shuttered the notorious 16Shop, a popular phishing-as-a-service platform launched in 2017 that made it simple for even complete novices to conduct complex and convincing phishing scams. Various 16Shop lures for Apple users in different languages. Image: Akamai.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Our investigation revealed that this remote endpoint is associated with criminal activities dating back to 2019, indicating that these hosts were likely under the control of the same technical administration. For instance: In September 2019, Cybereason found this hostname in old LockBit 2.0

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2024

These services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are also massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. Ivan Neculiti, as pictured on LinkedIn.

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