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. Data that emerged from the report are worrisome, in 2020 the reported losses exceeded $4.2 ” reads 2020 Internet Crime Report. billion in losses.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Phishing attacks are nothing new, but scammers are getting savvier with their tactics. Other Iranian-based cyberattacks have included hackers targeting Albanian government systems and spear phishing scams. Here are four new phishing trends keeping businesses on their toes. Spear phishing. Phishing via texting.

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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. In this report, we cover PC and mobile threats as well as various phishing schemes that capitalize on popular games. Pandemic-related statistics cover the period of January 2020 through June 2021.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Short-lived phishing sites often offered to see the premieres before the eagerly awaited movie or television show was scheduled to hit the screen. These sites referenced public figures and humanitarian groups, offering to accept cash in cryptocurrency, something that should have raised a red flag in itself.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 9, 2021

Cybercriminals are targeting Coinbase platform users with phishing campaings in an attempt to steal their account credentials and drain their cryptocurrency wallets, Bitdefender Antispam Lab has learned. According to our latest telemetry, the phishing campaign was noticed since mid-February, targeting over 25,000 users.

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

In 2020, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected: 5,683,694 malicious installation packages, 156,710 new mobile banking Trojans, 20,708 new mobile ransomware Trojans. It just so happened that the year 2020 gave hackers a large number of powerful news topics, with the COVID-19 pandemic as the biggest of these.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2020

Security experts uncovered a new Coronavirus-themed phishing campaign, the messages inform recipients that they have been exposed to the virus. The phishing messages tell the victims that one of their colleagues, friends, or family members has tested positive for the virus, then it urges them to print the attached “EmergencyContact.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 2, 2022

Widespread implementation of decentralized finance (DeFi) systems since 2020 has created new fertile ground for a variety of threat actors to shift the development of cyberattack tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs). It is easy to detect and block things like malicious cryptocurrency apps or crypto-phishing websites.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2021

The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) revealed that the number of phishing websites peaked at record levels in the first quarter of 2021. The Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG) has published its new Phishing Activity Trends Report related to the first quarter of 2021. Reported Phishing Websites for Q1 2021.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 15, 2020

Google has removed 49 new Chrome browser extensions from its official Web Store that hide the code to hijack cryptocurrency wallets. Google has removed 49 new Chrome browser extensions from its official Web Store that contain the code to steal sensitive information and hijack cryptocurrency wallets. ” continues the expert.

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SecureList

JANUARY 13, 2022

Also, we have previously reported on cryptocurrency-focused BlueNoroff attacks. It appears that BlueNoroff shifted focus from hitting banks and SWIFT-connected servers to solely cryptocurrency businesses as the main source of the group’s illegal income. tmp 2>&1″ Stealing cryptocurrency. Malware infection.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

share in 2020 to the second most common in 2021 with 12.2%. Emotet (9.3%), described by Europol as “the world’s most dangerous malware”, underwent a drop of five percentage points between 2020 and 2021.This The mass change in cybercriminals’ objectives and methods seen in 2020 continued in 2021.

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Digital Shadows

JUNE 7, 2021

It’s been a pretty big year so far for cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrencies’ current total market cap sits just above $1.7 The cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase recently launched an IPO, India has reversed a ban on cryptocurrencies, and ransomware groups continue to demand payment in anonymity-based cryptocurrency.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

A recent spate of SMS phishing attacks from one cybercriminal group has spawned a flurry of breach disclosures from affected companies, which are all struggling to combat the same lingering security threat: The ability of scammers to interact directly with employees through their mobile devices. 2, and Aug.

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Cytelligence

JANUARY 14, 2020

While we saw the threat landscape change in 2019 with even more sophisticated attacks, we predict 2020 to be even more extreme. Increasingly, phishing involves SMS texting attacks against mobiles or use of messaging on social media and gaming platforms. How can I protect my business in 2020? Eradication.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. ” Group-IB dubbed the gang by a different name — 0ktapus — which was a nod to how the criminal group phished employees for credentials.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

The Chaes malware was first spotted in the middle to late 2020 by Cybereason researchers, it is a multistage information stealer that focuses on Brazilian customers of MercadoLivre, the largest e-commerce company in Latin America. bin, researchers also observed the use of a cryptocurrency mining module. .

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 22, 2021

Here is the report's opening paragraph: "In 2020, while the American public was focused on protecting our families from a global pandemic and helping others in need, cyber criminals took advantage of an opportunity to profit from our dependence on technology to go on an Internet crime spree. Business Email Compromise 2020.

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SecureList

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked, January – June 2020, 2021, and 2022. Southern Europe leads the ranking of regions by percentage of ICS computers on which malicious email attachments and phishing links were blocked. This is the highest percentage for any six-month reporting period since 2020.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 17, 2021

At the time we warned users of the hardware cryptocurrency wallet to watch out for phishing scams that might attempt to steal users’ credentials. We believe this to be the contents of our e-commerce database from June 2020. We were informed about the dump of the content of a Ledger customer database on Raidforum.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2023

However, traditional financial threats – such as banking malware and financial phishing, continue to take up a significant share of such financially-motivated cyberattacks. Meanwhile, cryptocurrency became a prominent target for those seeking monetary gain. In addition to financial malware, we also examined phishing activities.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

And yet, it’s become such a hot trend that scammers have taken notice and are attempting to lure current and prospective traders onto NFT-themed phishing and fraud websites. billion in 2020. “We For example, “Scammers could build fake NFT user interfaces that steal cryptocurrency without providing the value they claim,” said Spiro.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 19, 2022

A new advisory issued by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), and the US Treasury Department (Treasury), highlights the cyberthreats associated with cryptocurrency thefts and tactics used by a North Korean state-sponsored advanced persistent threat (APT) group since at least 2020.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 4, 2020

Hackers hijacked one of the domains of the Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck and used it for spear-phishing attacks. The Japanese cryptocurrency exchange Coincheck announced that threat actors have accessed their account at the Oname.com domain registrar and hijacked one of its domain names. 5/29 ???????????????

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 14, 2022

This type of targeted phishing or whaling (executive-level) attack tricks email recipients into believing someone they know and trust is asking them to carry out a specific financial task. Today’s BEC attempts aren’t the easy-to-spot, typo-laden phishing campaigns of the past. The short answer: Not always. Scenario 3.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 17, 2023

The North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus has stolen more than $240 million worth of cryptocurrency since June 2023, researchers warn. The group is also suspected to have recently stolen $31 million from the professional global cryptocurrency exchange CoinEx. “Fast forward to today, and approximately $291.3

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Security Affairs

JUNE 18, 2022

Malibot is a new Android malware targeting online banking and cryptocurrency wallet customers in Spain and Italy. F5 Labs researchers spotted a new strain of Android malware, named Malibot, that is targeting online banking and cryptocurrency wallet customers in Spain and Italy. ” reads the advisory published by F5 Labs.

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SecureList

MARCH 3, 2022

If we compare the numbers from 2020 and 2021, we see that 2021 looks more stable, particularly in H2. The percentage of ICS computers on which malicious objects were blocked in 2021 increased by 1 percentage point from 2020 – from 38.6% Malicious scripts and phishing pages – by a factor of 1.4 – from 6.5% Ransomware.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

First of all, we are going to analyze the forecasts we made at the end of 2020 and see how accurate they were. We should expect more fraud, targeting mostly BTC , because this cryptocurrency is the most popular. In addition, bitcoin ended 2020 at around $28,000 and quickly rose to a peak of $40,000 in January 2021.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 10, 2024

According to DoJ, ShinyHunters posted sales of hacked data from more than 60 companies between April 2020 and July 2021. He stole people’s cryptocurrency. Then they sent phishing emails to company employees that were designed to look like they came from legitimate businesses and included links to the fake login pages.

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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.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

billion of money and cryptocurrency from financial institutions and companies, to create and deploy multiple malicious cryptocurrency applications, and to develop and fraudulently market a blockchain platform.” ransomware in May 2017, and carried out extortion and attempted extortion from 2017 through 2020. sanctions. .

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 7, 2021

Several users of Trezor, a small hardware device that acts as a cryptocurrency wallet, have been duped by a fake app with the same name. He wanted to check his cryptocurrency balance on his phone and decided to search for and download an app instead of plugging the device into his computer via a USB connection. He lost 17.1 He lost 17.1

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Microsoft warns of Vietnam-linked Bismuth group that is deploying cryptocurrency miner while continues its cyberespionage campaigns. Researchers from Microsoft reported that the Vietnam-linked Bismuth group, aka OceanLotus , Cobalt Kitty , or APT32 , is deploying cryptocurrency miners while continues its cyberespionage campaigns.

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Webroot

APRIL 7, 2021

The reason for this volatility is at least partly attributed to an event known as “ the halvening ,” where the reward generating supply of the cryptocurrency is cut in half, simultaneously increasing demand. The steepest ransom doubled between 2015 and 2020, from $15 million to $30 million. An iron law? Patient ones, at least.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 25, 2020

According to a report published by Kaspersky Lab in January 2020, in the two years the North Korea-linked APT group has continued to target cryptocurrency exchanges evolving its TTPs. Now Kaspersky researchers revealed to have spotted new attacks that were carried out by the APT group in September and October 2020.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 2, 2021

billion in 2020. These criminals have used phishing, spoofing, extortion and various types of Internet-enabled fraud to target the most vulnerable in our society – medical workers searching for personal protective equipment, families looking for information about stimulus checks to help pay bills and many others. Phishing Scams.

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