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Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

Krebs on Security

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. ” One of the crypto investment scam messages promoted in the spam campaigns on Mastodon this month. . A DIRECT QUOT The domain quot[.]pw A DIRECT QUOT The domain quot[.]pw

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Would You Have Fallen for This Phone Scam?

Krebs on Security

You may have heard that today’s phone fraudsters like to use use caller ID spoofing services to make their scam calls seem more believable. “After we figured out what was going on, we were left asking ourselves how the crooks had obtained her last three transactions without breaking into her account online. .

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When Low-Tech Hacks Cause High-Impact Breaches

Krebs on Security

But we do know the March 2020 attack was precipitated by a spear-phishing attack against a GoDaddy employee. GoDaddy described the incident at the time in general terms as a social engineering attack, but one of its customers affected by that March 2020 breach actually spoke to one of the hackers involved.

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Scammers Sent Uber to Take Elderly Lady to the Bank

Krebs on Security

Email scammers sent an Uber to the home of an 80-year-old woman who responded to a well-timed email scam, in a bid to make sure she went to the bank and wired money to the fraudsters. ” “They took control of her screen and said they had accidentally transferred $160,000 into her account,” Hardaway said.

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GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services

Krebs on Security

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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Malicious Office 365 Apps Are the Ultimate Insiders

Krebs on Security

After a user logs in, the link prompts them to install a malicious but innocuously-named app that gives the attacker persistent, password-free access to any of the user’s emails and files, both of which are then plundered to launch malware and phishing scams against others. Image: Proofpoint.

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Arrest, Raids Tied to ‘U-Admin’ Phishing Kit

Krebs on Security

” 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. 2020 blog post on an ongoing Qakbot campaign that was first documented three months earlier by Check Point Research. The U-Admin phishing panel interface.

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