CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 14, 2021

Even if you’ve never been scammed before, you may know somebody who has. 2020 was a high-water mark for online scams and fraud. million fraud complaints in 2020. Not every scam is strictly about money. Here are five things to remember if you’ve been scammed. Know How to Recover After a Scam.

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Troy Hunt

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

However, I don't fall for the scams because I look for the warning signs: a sense of urgency, fear of missing out, and strange URLs that look nothing like any parcel delivery service I know of. It's well into the 2020's and post COVID so I'm always expecting a parcel, because that's just how we buy stuff these days.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2021

The so-called “mastermind” behind the 2020 Twitter hack that compromised the accounts of several celebrities and public figures—including President Barack Obama, Bill Gates, and Elon Musk—pleaded guilty to several charges on Tuesday in a Florida court. After the theft, Clark posted photos of himself on Instagram wearing a Rolex watch.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In May, KrebsOnSecurity interviewed a Russian spammer named “ Quotpw “ who was mass-registering accounts on the social media network Mastodon in order to conduct a series of huge spam campaigns advertising scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. com site,” the Trend researchers wrote. . Image: Trend Micro.

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SC Magazine

MAY 5, 2021

Today’s columnist, Brian Johnson of Armorblox, offers five takeaways from the FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report. The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) in March released its 2020 Internet Crime Report with updated statistics on Business Email Compromise (BEC), Email Account Compromise (EAC), and COVID-19 scams.

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SecureList

AUGUST 23, 2021

billion USD in 2021, which is slightly less than the total revenue in 2020 but still significantly above the pre-pandemic figures. Most of the statistics presented in the report were collected between July 1, 2020 and June 30, 2021. Pandemic-related statistics cover the period of January 2020 through June 2021.

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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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Heimadal Security

OCTOBER 28, 2021

As a response to the Twitter hack that happened last year, the American social networking service put in place the compulsoriness of the MFA (multi-factor authentication) use and also ensured the security keys roll out for all its employees.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2023

Joseph James “PlugwalkJoe” O’Connor , a 24-year-old from the United Kingdom who earned his 15 minutes of fame by participating in the July 2020 hack of Twitter , has been sentenced to five years in a U.S. 02, 2020, pitching O’Connor as a cryptocurrency expert and advisor. in forfeiture.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In fact, in 2020, 75% of organizations around the world reported to have experienced a phishing attack within the year, 74% of those attacks within the United States were reported to have been successful. The post DMARC and the prevention of World Health Organization phishing scams appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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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. Perhaps the biggest selling point for U-Admin is a module that helps phishers intercept multi-factor authentication codes. Image: fr3d.hk/blog.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 14, 2022

We would never expect someone we know and work with to scam us, much less defraud our organization. billion in annual losses during 2020, resulting from 19,369 incidents. BEC attacks don’t get the media attention of ransomware incidents and records theft, but they are far more prevalent and costly overall.

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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. On May 21 2020, the threat actor registered the domain name sassysenssations[.]com com which belongs to a legitimate business.

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Joseph Steinberg

JUNE 1, 2021

Cybercriminals know that the more subscribers a service has, the more likely that messages sent to random phone numbers will reach subscribers who believe that the received messages are authentic communications from the relevant service. rate of growth experienced the year prior.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another. 22, 2020, when cryptocurrency wallet company Ledger acknowledged that someone had released the names, mailing addresses and phone numbers for 272,000 customers. Urgency should be a giant red flag. Take a deep breath.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

million in 2023, according to IBM’s Cost of a Data Breach Report, and over 700,000 small businesses were targeted in cybersecurity attacks in 2020, according to the Small Business Association. The average cost of a cybersecurity breach was $4.45 Nonprofits are equally at risk, and often lack cybersecurity measures.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 5, 2021

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.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Labor Department’s inspector general said this week that roughly $100 million in fraudulent unemployment insurance claims were paid in 2020 to criminals who are already in jail. A new report (PDF) from the Labor Department’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) found that from March through October of 2020, some $3.5

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

The missives asked users to click a link and log in at a phishing page that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication. Image: Cloudflare.com.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

The documents were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser. According to the FBI, BEC scams are the most costly form of cybercrime today. First American released its first quarter 2020 earnings today. In the days that followed, the DFS and U.S. A hearing on the charges alleged by the DFS is slated for Oct.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

“They would just keep jamming a few individuals to get [remote] access, read some onboarding documents, enroll a new 2FA [two-factor authentication method] and exfiltrate code or secrets, like a smash-and-grab,” the CXO said. The flash scam netted the perpetrators more than $100,000 in the ensuing hours.

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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. 16Shop documentation instructing operators on how to deploy the kit. Image: ZeroFox.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JANUARY 26, 2021

The increasing trend of using mobile payments for in-store purchases (especially during the pandemic) is leading criminals to increasingly focus their efforts on defrauding people through online fraud and scams. Fraud and scams move to the web. Source: Verizon DBIR 2020. Strong Customer Authentication (SCA).

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 19, 2021

Internet crime is ever present, and with the ongoing pandemic, levels of scams and fraud were exceptionally high in 2020. A state-by-state statistical breakdown of these cases were included in an accompanying report, 2020 State Reports, that you can browse through here. billion USD. billion USD.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Coming to the source code steal in the Microsoft scam, the investigations revealed that the threat actors somehow registered another phone number for some employees and surpassed the 2 factor authentication to gain access to the company servers.

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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. Two in five small and medium businesses were impacted by ransomware in 2020. Spear Phishing.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 23, 2021

For instance, the GreatHorn Threat Intelligence Team last week reported a “significant increase in the use of the word ‘vaccine’ in phishing attacks, relative to the frequency with which the term is used in authentic emails.”. 1, 2020 through March 3, 2021. Image courtesy of GreatHorn).

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IT Security Guru

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Updating passwords and adding two-factor authentication, for example, will help protect a site and its users’ information. Spelling and grammatical errors are often a giveaway for online scams. Retailers should work with IT and security partners, applying patches where needed to ensure any potential vulnerabilities are protected.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 28, 2020

Sendgrid’s parent company Twilio says it is working on a plan to require multi-factor authentication for all of its customers, but that solution may not come fast enough for organizations having trouble dealing with the fallout in the meantime. Image: Wikipedia. ”

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

The FIFA World Cup 2022 has brought with it a spike in cyber attacks targeting football fans through fake streaming sites and lottery scams, leveraging the rush and excitement around these uncommon events to infect users with malware. Similar templates for fake streaming sites appeared in 2020 during the Tokyo Olympics.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

An Elasticsearch server containing personal details of hundreds of thousands of dating site users were exposed online without authentication. Some of the notifications included in the archive contained links to the user’s profile that also contained authentication keys. ” reads the post published by vpnMentor.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

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. Protecting Against Malware and Scams While Shopping Online During the Holiday Season. Individuals, businesses and organizations alike need to tread carefully.

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Duo's Security Blog

MAY 18, 2021

Verizon just released its 14th edition of the Verizon Data Breach Incident Report (DBIR) covering 2020’s foray into cybersecurity. It’s fair to say that 2020 was impossible to predict, but had a significant impact. The DBIR states that phishing, ransomware, web app attacks dominated data breaches in 2020.

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Spinone

MAY 8, 2020

On the world scene, 2020 has already been a challenging year for businesses across the board with COVID-19. Coupled with the current pandemic and the cybersecurity threats that have been very prevalent and growing in recent years such as ransomware, there are many different cyber risk types n 2020 that your business needs to prepare for.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The exposed data could expose users to multiple malicious activities, including identity theft & fraud, scams, phishing and malware attacks, and of course account abuse. Spotify announced that it is forcing the password reset for all the impacted users. . Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Spotify).

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Security Affairs

APRIL 11, 2021

The experts reported their findings to the company, but at the time of this writing, Clubhouse has yet to confirm the authenticity of the exposed data. Leak data could be abused by threat actors to carry out malicious activities, such as phishing/spear-phishing attacks, identity theft, and scams.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 2, 2022

This network used fake accounts and operated fictitious personas and brands across the internet — including on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter, YouTube, Telegram, Odnoklassniki and VK — to appear more authentic in an apparent attempt to withstand scrutiny by platforms and researchers.”

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