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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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2024

Rasch said it could be that Dellone’s stolen crypto was seized as part of a government asset forfeiture, but that either way there is no reason Uncle Sam should hold some cybercrime victims’ life savings indefinitely. In 2020 KrebsOnSecurity was contacted by an investigator with the U.S. federal court.” federal court.”

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The Apollon market, one of the largest marketplaces, is likely exit scamming after the administrators have locked vendors’ accounts. The Apollon market , one of the darknet’s largest marketplaces, is likely exit scamming, vendors and customers reported suspicious behavior of its administrators. ” continues Darknetstats.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 28, 2022

The campaign has been active since late 2020 but gained momentum in early 2022, with thousands of victims affected. The post Shopping trap: The online stores’ scam that hits users worldwide? Active domains behind the malicious online stores at the time of analysis (21-03-2022). Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2023

Sports fashion retail JD Sports discloses a data breach that explosed data of about 10M customers who placed orders between 2018 and 2020. UK sports fashion chain JD Sports disclosed a data breach that exposed customer data from orders placed between November 2018 and October 2020. The affected JD Sports group brands are JD, Size?,

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Security Through Education

APRIL 7, 2021

In fact, the FBI’s (Federal Bureau of Investigation) 2020 Internet Crime Report , refers to what is happening as an “ Internet crime spree.” billion people were active internet users as of October 2020. “Mobile phishing increases more than 300% as 2020 chaos continues.” COVID-19 Scams.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

It’s a good idea to prepare for cybercrime, and whenever possible avoid becoming a victim of it. 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. Beware of fake or misleading shopping apps.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Compromised data include names, addresses, telephone numbers, dates of birth, bank account numbers, credit cards, passwords, license plates, citizen service numbers or passport data. The group demanded a Bitcoin payment from the affected companies and threatened to publish the stolen information online or destroy their infrastructure.

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Vipre

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Unfortunately, this hectic holiday spirit is a breeding ground for cybercrime and other nefarious online activity. Hackers use this chaos to their advantage; in fact, a 2020 Experian survey found that one in four Americans have been a victim of identity theft or fraud during the holidays. . Watch out for charity scams. .

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

Preventing phishing attacks, like the latest phony HR scams, should not fall on individual employees alone. According to the FBI, phishing was the most common type of cybercrime last year—nearly doubling in frequency between 2019 and 2020.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. billion in reported losses, up from 2020’s 791,790 complaints and $4.2 Often, a scammer will simply target the people in a company and fool them into giving up their personal details, account passwords, and other sensitive information and gain access that way.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2021

The scam campaign targets over 2 million Indonesian bank customers, which corresponds to the number of legitimate bank Twitter pages’ followers. This fraudulent scheme initially appeared on the Group-IB DRP team’s radar in late 2020. From January to early March 2021, this scheme grew in scope 2.5-fold About Group-IB.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In 2020, Proteus went bankrupt. from June 26 to November 6, 2020, occurred remotely, and in India telehealth began receiving support from the government starting in March 2020. That’s why we decided to test our assumption and delve into the security landscape of telehealth in 2020 and 2021. Medical data leaks.

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SC Magazine

JUNE 24, 2021

Iyer estimated that the number of vishing attacks have doubled since the COVID-19 pandemic took hold in March of 2020. Iyer also believes that the frequency emails sent from businesses and employers related to password resets, security alerts, locked accounts, order confirmations and invoices have increased during the pandemic as well.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The epidemic went truly mainstream with the release of CryptoLocker back in 2013, and it has since transformed into a major dark web economy spawning the likes of Sodinokibi, Ryuk, and Maze lineages that are targeting the enterprise on a huge scale in 2020. In early 2020, several cybercriminals groups followed suit.

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Hot for Security

MAY 14, 2021

Blackmailers are having a field day capitalizing on victims of the Ledger data leak from July 2020. ” The extortionist is referring to the 2020 hack and data dump that followed. After the Ledger data leaked, I got your information (email address, password, first name, last name, and more).

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SC Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2021

Cybercriminals have been using a phishing kit featuring fake Office 365 password alerts as a lure to target the credentials of chief executives, business owners and other high-level corporate leaders. Additional information on the malicious operation can be found in this October 2020 Odix report. Mark Wilson/Getty Images).

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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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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

These developments would have, over the next decade or so, steadily and materially reduced society’s general exposure to cybercrime and online privacy abuses. What’s more the FBI reports that Business Email Compromise (BEC) accounted for an estimated $26 billion in cybercrime-related losses over a three year period.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

The risk of being scammed runs even higher. While on ordinary days, the customer can easily see that if the product is too cheap, it is most likely a scam, during the Black Friday sales, it gets harder to tell. Instead of being the first among buyers, they will join the ranks of scam victims. Phishing and scam: red flags.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The FBI recently published a warning stating that ransomware gang OnePercent Group has been attacking companies in the US since November 2020. Ransomware attacks like the ones carried out by OnePercent Group have been crippling businesses across the country since the FBI first reported a 37% uptick in cybercrime in 2018.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 27, 2021

He pointed out that the service is not doing an exit scam. Torrez Market was established in April 2020, it is the only darknet marketplace that accepts Bitcoin, Monero, Zcash and Litecoin. Vendors trying to use this opportunity to exit scam will be banned. The admin clearly explained that they might come back at a later stage.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

review Active Directory password policy. In 2020 groups were demanding as much as $30 million to unlock a victim’s files and systems. Cybercrime to cost over $10 Trillion by 2025. Stolen in Pandemic Scams. FBI Internet Crime Report 2020: Cybercrime Skyrocketed, with Email Compromise Accounting for 43% of Losses.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Every time there is another data breach, we are asked to change our password at the breached entity. Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Such malicious scenarios are designed identically to their legitimate counterpart applications but contain fake forms which intercept the logins and passwords of the victim. In total, the loss from fraud exceeds 5,6 billion USD in 2022. ” – he added.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2021

Wizard Spider is a cybercrime group affiliated with a what is sometimes called the Ransomware Cartel , a collective of underground groups identified by threat intelligence company Analyst1. Two years later, the group moved to using Conti, in May 2020. Avoid reusing passwords for multiple accounts. ransomware and phishing scams).

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

However, far more interesting is their program for rewarding people who choose to sell Kopeechka usernames and passwords for working email addresses. The crypto scam affiliate program “Project Impulse,” advertising in 2021. com site,” the Trend researchers wrote. . com site,” the Trend researchers wrote.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2019

The Saint Ambrose Catholic Parish discovered the BEC attack on April 17 when was making payments related to a Vision 2020 project that were never received by a contractor (Marous Brothers Construction). Saint Ambrose is the second largest church in the Diocese of Cleveland and the largest church in Brunswick, Ohio. ” Stec added.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2023

It presents a continuation of our previous annual financial threat reports ( 2018 , 2019 , 2020 , 2021 ), which provide an overview of the latest trends across the threat landscape. Financial phishing Phishing continues to be one of the most widespread forms of cybercrime thanks to the low entry threshold and its effectiveness.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 5, 2023

By January 2023, education had claimed over 80 percent of all global malware incidents —a staggering lead that has held since 2020. In fact, 57 percent of all ransomware incidents disclosed to the FBI involved K–12 districts at the start of the 2020/2021 school year, compared to just 28 percent the year prior.

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Herjavec Group

DECEMBER 15, 2021

They found that the average cost of recovery and ransom associated with a ransomware attack has been 2 times more than the 2020 average global ransom demand ! Cybersecurity programs that educate your entire team on general information security tactics – including recognizing and addressing phishing scams – are essential.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

These individuals said they were only customers of the person who had access to Twitter’s internal employee tools, and were not responsible for the actual intrusion or bitcoin scams that took place that day. ALWAYS IN DISCORD. The script would replace the term with “I do not condone illegal activities.”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Some of the most successful and lucrative online scams employ a “low-and-slow” approach — avoiding detection or interference from researchers and law enforcement agencies by stealing small bits of cash from many people over an extended period. What do you do?

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In fact, time spent streaming increased by almost 75% in 2020. In 2021, demand for video streaming has remained strong, and the global video streaming market is still growing, albeit slower than in 2020, and is expected to continue growing for the next few years.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 3, 2021

The constantly evolving state of cybercrime means that B2B companies need to keep altering their strategies to address modern threats. These COVID-19 related attacks might have started in 2020, but they have taken a new approach in 2021. . These are often fronts for phishing scams and will trigger future emails. .

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Security Affairs

APRIL 9, 2020

Group-IB’s Computer Emergency Response Team ( CERT-GIB ) analyzed hundreds of coronavirus-related phishing emails between February 13 and April 1, 2020. These companies are in no way involved in the scams, of course. Example of a malicious email disguised as “UNICEF COVID-19 TIPS APP” with spyware in the attachment. Source: CERT-GIB.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2020

Thus, the number of phishing attacks on cloud storages nearly doubled last year, while Internet providers have seen the three-fold increase in the number of phishing scams targeting them. CERT-GIB’s findings indicate that phishing attack perpetrators have revised their so-called target pool.

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