Penetration Testing

NOVEMBER 3, 2024

” The operation, active since 2019, has exploited... The post 121 Fake Web Shops and 1,000 Infected Websites: Inside the Phish ‘n’ Ships Scam appeared first on Cybersecurity News.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The FBI’s Internal Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report , a document that outlines cybercrime trends over the past year. Here we are to analyze the annual FBI 2019 Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) , one of the most interesting documents on the crime trends observed in the last 12 months.

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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. How frustrated would you be?

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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. SecurityAffairs – hacking, romance scams).

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

In May 2019, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that the website of mortgage title insurance giant First American Financial Corp. billion in 2019. In August 2019, the company said a third-party investigation into the exposure identified just 32 consumers whose non-public personal information likely was accessed without authorization.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 18, 2020

According to the IC3 Annual Report released in April 2019 financial losses reached $2.7 Most financially devastating threats involved investment scams, business email compromises (BEC) , and romance fraud. The total cost of cybercrime for each company in 2019 reached US$13M. Financial losses reached $2.7 billion in 2018.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2025

This wasnt just a scam operation – it was essentially a cybercrime university that empowered fraudsters globally, NCCIA Director Abdul Ghaffar said at a press briefing. Sometime in 2019, The Manipulaters failed to renew their core domain name manipulaters[.]com

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Romance scams continue to plague users, but their costs have risen to staggering heights, according to a Malwarebytes survey carried out last month via our weekly newsletter. However, with the return to in-person gatherings, our survey results show romance scams have hardly petered out. They conduct research, and follow a playbook.

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The Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The Classiscam scam-as-a-service program has reaped the criminal actors $64.5 million in illicit earnings since its emergence in 2019.

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Scams Social Engineering Banking Advertising 137

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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Heimadal Security

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

A massive global multi-million dollar scam, operating since 2019, has been uncovered. The post Multi-Million Dollar Global Credit Card Scam Exposed appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. The post Multi-Million Dollar Global Credit Card Scam Exposed appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. By […].

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Adam Levin

MARCH 23, 2020

It could very well be a business email compromise (BEC) scam, which cost businesses $26 billion in 2019 alone. Take your time: Phishing scams targeting businesses are often marked urgent and/or time-sensitive, and rely on the target responding too quickly to notice anything suspicious. The post Working Remotely?

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2018

Rest assured, that long-overdue change will be coming soon in 2019. Below are some of the most-read and commented-on enterprise stories throughout 2018, a year marked by a relentless onslaught of data breaches, data leaks and increasingly sneaky scams. Voice Phishing Scams Are Getting More Clever. Thanks for your patience.

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Troy Hunt

JANUARY 1, 2021

References NZBGeek reported a data breach (the sire is offline now and the Twitter thread suggests that it perhaps on the shadier side of copyright law) Thousands of Aussies have been targeted by Coronavirus scams (no surprises there really, and it certainly goes well beyond just Aussies) CafePress has copped a $2M settlement related to their 2019 (..)

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The investigator — we’ll call him “George” — said the 23-year-old Medayedupin lives with his extended family in an extremely impoverished home, and that the young man told investigators he’d just graduated from college but turned to cybercrime at first with ambitions of merely scamming the scammers.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 2, 2020

OGUsers was hacked at least twice previously, in May 2019 and again in March 2020. In the meantime, someone has been taunting forum members, saying they can have their profiles and private messages removed from an impending database leak by paying between $50 and $100.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

Over the course of the year, the IC3 logged 791,000 complaints, more than a third of the total complaints over the past five years and a marked rise from the 463,000 complaints in 2019. billion in 2019. Vendors had warned about the rise of COVID-19 scams throughout 2020. Victims lost $4.2

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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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Security Through Education

MARCH 16, 2022

In fact, each year we see new versions of tax scams abounding. What are some of these scams we have seen, and how can we identify such schemes? The IRS reported on a scam that they first saw in 2019 related to social security numbers. Signs of a Scam. Scams with similar themes will surely flourish this season.

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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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Security Affairs

AUGUST 24, 2020

The dark web marketplace Empire Market has been down for at least 3 days, two of the possible reasons, an exit scam or a prolonged DDoS attack. The popular dark web site Empire Market has been down for at least 60 hours, it hasn’t been down for so long since 2019. DDoS attack or exit scam? Pierluigi Paganini.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 2, 2021

The FBI received a record number of reports last year totaling 791,790, a 69% growth from 2019. billion in 2019 to $4.2 Victims lost the most money to business email compromise scams, romance and confidence schemes and investment fraud. Notably, last year saw the emergence of scams exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting employees at GoDaddy , the world’s largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. In March, a voice phishing scam targeting GoDaddy support employees allowed attackers to assume control over at least a half-dozen domain names, including transaction brokering site escrow.com.

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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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Adam Levin

JULY 10, 2020

For comparison, that’s a 273% increase over the first two quarters of 2019 combined. While the number of publicly reported breaches in Q1 2020 decreased by 58% compared to 2019, the coronavirus pandemic gave cybercriminals new ways to thrive,” wrote Bitdefender researcher and blogger Alina Bizga.

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Tech Republic Security

OCTOBER 8, 2019

Computerized auto dialers deliver pre-recorded phone calls with 60 billion expected in 2019 alone. Here's how to handle robocalls.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 27, 2025

But falling for some phishing scams, like those currently targeting Russians searching online for organizations that are fighting the Kremlin war machine, can cost you your freedom or your life. Tamoian, a native Russian who left the country in 2019, is the founder of the cyber investigation platform malfors.com.

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Troy Hunt

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

You know how banks really, really want to avoid their customers falling victim to phishing scams? And how they put a heap of effort into education to warn folks about the hallmarks of phishing scams? Cc @troyhunt @NAB pic.twitter.com/hCW5ADLo0O — Sebastian Schmidt (@publicarray) November 11, 2019 So.

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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. Social engineering trigger While no fancy malware is needed to pull off a BEC scam, technology does come into play. The total stolen: $2.3 The FBI is investigating. No arrests have been made. It’s simple fraud.”

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 20, 2022

In fact, according to according to Sean Ragan, the FBI’s special agent in charge of the San Francisco and Sacramento, California, field offices, cryptocurrency scams are big business on LinkedIn. ” How cryptocurrency scams work on LinkedIn. This style of attack is called the “ pig butcher ” scam.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 25, 2020

Here’s a sobering statistic: According to PhishLabs , by the end of 2019 roughly three-quarters (74 percent) of all phishing sites were using SSL certificates. PhishLabs found this percentage increased from 68% in Q3 and 54% in Q2 of 2019. “It only indicates that the connection is encrypted.

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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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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

In 2020, reported losses to the FTC for romance scams went up by 50% from 2019, totalling $304 million. And things weren’t exactly good before: Romance scams have cost people a fortune for 3 years running, according to the FTC. Scams often begin on social media but are unexpected. Tips for avoiding romance scams.

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Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

Job scams have been a problem for years. Last year, the Better Business Bureau estimated 14 million victims with $2 billion in direct losses related to job scams. The 2020 BBB Employment Scams Report found job scams to be the riskiest of all the scams they tracked in 2018 and 2019.

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Scams Identity Theft Banking Media 98

Identity IQ

OCTOBER 28, 2021

If you thought fake check scams were a thing of the past, think again. According to a recent Better Business Bureau report, the average loss in a fake money order or check scam last year was $1,679. By learning more about fake check scams, you can help make sure you’re not the next victim. How Do Fake Check Scams Work?

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Hot for Security

MARCH 23, 2021

Despite newly created opportunities for fraudsters to rip-off unsuspecting citizens during the ongoing pandemic, tech support scams inflicted nearly $150 million in reported losses in 2020. While individuals in any age category may fall for these scams, 66 percent of victims are over 60 years of age, the report shows.

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Bleeping Computer

MAY 4, 2022

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) said today that the amount of money lost to business email compromise (BEC) scams continues to grow each year, with a 65% increase in the identified global exposed losses between July 2019 and December 2021. [.].

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