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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SC Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

For the uninitiated, NFTs are unique tokens that accompany original and collectible digital artwork or videos that can be sold or traded as a form of cryptocurrency, with transactions registered on the blockchain. No wonder scam artists are taking notice and jumping on the bandwagon. billion in 2020. “We

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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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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. This is a scam. A Ledger Nano is not a USB device.

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Heimadal Security

JUNE 7, 2021

The Australians reported in 2020 losses to scams that totaled AU$851 million, with AU$128 million being lost to business email compromise (BEC), AU$8.4 million classed as remote access scams, and AU$3.1 At the top of the list of scams were found the investment scams, ripping people off to the […].

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Joseph Steinberg

JUNE 17, 2021

1, 2021, the United States government enacted as federal law the Anti-Money Laundering Act of 2020 (“the AML Act”), thereby instituting mandates that should enhance the ability of the United States to collaborate more effectively with the rest of the international community in efforts to reduce financial crimes.

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SecureList

MARCH 31, 2021

2020 was challenging for everyone: companies, regulators, individuals. As a result, 2020 was extremely eventful in terms of digital threats, in particular those faced by financial institutions. In 2020, the group tried its hand at the big extortion game with the VHD ransomware family.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 22, 2022

The number of complaints increased by 7% to 847,376 from 2020 to 2021, however the reported losses increased by 64% year over year to $6.9 For several years, the #1 Cybercrime type has been Business Email Compromise followed by the #2 of Romance Scam. 2020 Losses. 2020 Victims. Investment Scam Examples. Crime Type.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 26, 2022

Rogue Google ads caused no end of misery for cryptocurrency enthusiasts, costing them roughly $4.31 This is an astonishing slice of cryptocurrency cash to lose for the sake of clicking on something in a search engine. They’ve been the stomping ground of exploit kits, ransomware, fake tech support scams, and much more for years.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

The cyberattacks against the cryptocurrency industry are a profitable business for threat actors, according to the experts, $12.1 billion worth of cryptocurrencies have been stolen in the last decade. “Cryptocurrency crime stands in direct proportion to the size of the cryptocurrency market. Threat actors stole $3.18

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The US DoJ charged the suspected Twitter hacker ‘PlugWalkJoe’ with the theft of $784,000 worth of cryptocurrency using SIM swap attacks. Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts.

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Security Affairs

JULY 16, 2020

All the accounts were compromised simultaneously and threat actors used them to promote a cryptocurrency scam. — Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 16, 2020. — Twitter Support (@TwitterSupport) July 16, 2020. “You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000.” Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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SecureList

MAY 26, 2021

The statistics in this report cover the period from May 2020 to April 2021, inclusive. Number of EU users attacked by financial malware, May 2020 – April 2021 ( download ). Geography of banking malware attacks in the EU, May 2020 – April 2021 ( download ). Main figures. Threat geography. Country. %*. Threat geography.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 2, 2021

billion in 2020. 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. Phishing Scams. Here are a few steps you can take to help avoid falling victim to a phishing scam: ?

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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

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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SecureList

JULY 11, 2022

In terms of topics and techniques, text-based fraud can be divided into several types: Dating scams. Let’s take a look at these types of scams and see why they work. Dating scams. Example of a dating scam e-mail. Dating scams are the least common type of message-based fraud. 419 scam with transactions.

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Threatpost

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Hackers claim to have access to classified information linking the president to the origin of the coronavirus and criminal collusion with foreign actors.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2022

This final post on the Conti conversations explores different schemes that Conti pursued to invest in and steal cryptocurrencies. This wealth allowed Conti to do things that regular investors couldn’t — such as moving the price of cryptocurrencies in one direction or the other. “Cryptocurrency article contest!

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2024

A California man who lost $100,000 in a 2021 SIM-swapping attack is suing the unknown holder of a cryptocurrency wallet that harbors his stolen funds. Dellone says the crooks then used his phone number to break into his account at Coinbase and siphon roughly $100,000 worth of cryptocurrencies. million cyberheist.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A 24-year-old New York man who bragged about helping to steal more than $20 million worth of cryptocurrency from a technology executive has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. In January 2020, a New York grand jury criminally indicted Truglia (PDF) for his part in the crypto theft from Terpin. Image: twitter.com/erupts.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2023

citizen, who was involved in the attack on Twitter in 2020, was sentenced to five years in prison for cybercrime offenses. Joseph James O’Connor, aka PlugwalkJoe (24), the hacker who was involved in the attacks on Twitter in 2020, was sentenced to five years in prison for cybercrime offenses.

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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. This is a scam. A Ledger Nano is not a USB device.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 28, 2021

Older adults, the study found, were often defrauded as a result of romance scams, tech support fraud, and investment scams. After all, a romance scam or email account compromise attack doesn’t discriminate between its targets based upon their age.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 17, 2021

Hacker exploited access to Twitter’s internal tools to post scam from high profile accounts Elon Musk, Joe Biden, Barack Obama, Apple, and Uber amongst accounts exploited. The scam attempted to trick potential victims into moving Bitcoin into a cryptocurrency wallet with the “promise” that they would receive more in return.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2022

The US agency received over 95,000 reports from US consumers victims of social media frauds, this marks an 18-fold increase over 2017 reported losses and more than double compared to 2020. According to the FTC, people with age between 18 to 39, were most exposed to these scams in 2021. Read about romance scams.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

They say these attacks targeted "numerous victims throughout 2020, including well-known influencers, sports stars, musicians, and their families." How do Phone Company Insiders enable these scams? The post Phone Company Insiders Helped Global Sim-Swapping Gang Steal Millions in Cryptocurrency appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2020

Group-IB discovered thousands of personal records of users from multiple countries exposed in a targeted multi-stage bitcoin scam. The new scheme is similar to the “Bitcoin Evolution” scam, that Group-IB reported on in Feb. 2020, with one big difference – this time a massive amount of victim’s sensitive info was exposed.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

22, 2020, when cryptocurrency wallet company Ledger acknowledged that someone had released the names, mailing addresses and phone numbers for 272,000 customers. And as the phishing examples above demonstrate, many of today’s phishing scams use elements from hacked databases to make their lures more convincing.

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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

SEPTEMBER 17, 2022

” In December 2020, Discoli took credit for hacking and leaking the user database for OGUsers, a forum overrun with people looking to buy, sell and trade access to compromised social media accounts. The United Kingdom is home to a number of young men accused of stealing millions of dollars worth of cryptocurrencies via SIM swapping.

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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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Hot for Security

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

are not conducting disconnects, and we haven’t been doing so since March 2020. The company said it will never call residential customers to ask for instant payment via cash, gift card or cryptocurrency. . “The scammers are telling customers they will be disconnected within 30-60 minutes if immediate payment is not made.We

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

In February 2020, Secure Swiss Data was purchased in an “undisclosed multimillion buyout” by SafeSwiss Secure Communication AG. Another Seychelles concern tied to Mr. Bibi was effectivebets.com , which in 2017 and 2018 promoted sports betting via cryptocurrencies and offered tips on picking winners.

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