The Last Watchdog

APRIL 6, 2020

CEO Colin Bastable at RSA 2020. These scams rely on the failure of a subordinate employee to recognize a cleverly spoofed email directive. Social engineering trigger While no fancy malware is needed to pull off a BEC scam, technology does come into play. I had a chance to discuss this with Lucy Security Inc. It’s simple fraud.”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 3, 2023

The scam artist John Bernard a.k.a. ” As KrebsOnSecurity reported in 2020, Bruno was at the time promoting himself as the co-CEO of a company called SafeSwiss Secure Communication AG , and the founder of another tech startup called Secure Swiss Data.

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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. Use end-to-end encryption. Be careful with emails containing invitations.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 13, 2020

For the past year, a site called Privnotes.com has been impersonating Privnote.com , a legitimate, free service that offers private, encrypted messages which self-destruct automatically after they are read. “It’s a pretty smart scam.” And it doesn’t send and receive messages.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

According to the latest figures (PDF) released by the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), the reported losses from BEC scams continue to dwarf other cybercrime loss categories, increasing to $1.86 billion in 2020. billion in 2020. Image: FBI. For example, the Lockbit 2.0 “Would you like to earn millions of dollars?

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 25, 2021

In this period netizens hope to take advantage of online bargains and are more active online, for this reason they are more exposed to the risk of scams. Only purchase items from official, encryption-using websites. As always – if the deal sounds too good to be true, chances are it is a scam. Pierluigi Paganini.

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The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

The Iranian hacker group TA453 has recently been using a technique that creates multiple personas to trick victims , deploying “social proof” to scam people into engaging in a thread. Other Iranian-based cyberattacks have included hackers targeting Albanian government systems and spear phishing scams. Phishing via texting.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

The one technology company this author could tie to Mr. Bernard was secureswissdata.com , a Swiss concern that provides encrypted email and data services. In February 2020, Secure Swiss Data was purchased in an “undisclosed multimillion buyout” by SafeSwiss Secure Communication AG.

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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. Figure 1: Web application breaches in the Retail industry.

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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. File encryption 2013 – 2015. pharma giant ExecuPharm.

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Security Affairs

JULY 14, 2020

“As of July 11th, 2020, our cybersecurity team has confirmed that an unauthorized third party accessed certain user data through a security breach at a LiveAuctioneers data processing partner that occurred on June 19, 2020.” ” reads the data breach notification published by the company. The poster is selling 3.4

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2023

CISA and FBI warn of Royal ransomware operation Retailer WH Smith discloses data breach after a cyberattack GunAuction site was hacked and data of 565k accounts were exposed Cryptojacking campaign targets insecure deployments of Redis servers Cisco fixed a critical command injection bug in IP Phone Series Threat actors target law firms with GootLoader (..)

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

Among those was the encrypted messaging app Signal , which said the breach could have let attackers re-register the phone number on another device for about 1,900 users. LastPass said criminal hackers had stolen encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information. On July 28 and again on Aug.

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SecureWorld News

JUNE 15, 2021

Phishing activity doubled in 2020, largely due to the pandemic and remote work, and continued to climb in the first month of 2021. The numbers Agari has discovered are quite staggering: "Agari found that the average amount requested in wire transfer BEC attacks increased 14 percent from $75,000 in Q4 2020 to $85,000 in Q1 2021.

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Hacker Combat

JANUARY 30, 2022

During the Dark Herring movement, which was going on from March 2020, the subscribers to the application were to be charged $15 for a monthly premium, generating a lot of money continuously, leading to a loss of hundreds of millions caused by the scammers. The Derrin team spread the scam across four hundred and seventy apps.

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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. Although phishing scams have been around about as long as the internet, hackers like OnePercent Group still rely on social engineering to fool high level members of corporate organizations.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

While security pros consider bcrypt a strong encryption technique relative to older methods such as MD5 and SHA1, it is still vulnerable to brute-force attacks depending on the password strength. The information leaked was prime for exploitation by other threat actors, especially for insurance scams, the researchers said.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

No matter if you are a business owner or work in any other sector like healthcare, education, or finance – in 2020, ransomware is officially after your cloud data. There, it encrypts emails, documents, calendars, and contacts, depending on the type and purpose of the ransomware. one of the biggest cloud threats of 2020.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Tue, 11/17/2020 - 06:44. In addition, telemedicine has generated a larger pool for potential phishing scams as well as other socially-engineered, and technically based, attacks (e.g., These tools include smart technology-oriented solutions like encryption and tokenization. ransomware).

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Cybercriminals continued targeting gamers’ accounts filled with valuable in-game items or giving access to games on several devices, and often used in-game currency to lure victims to participate in their scams. Unfortunately, this ambiguity sets the stage for an anticipated increase in charity-related scams in 2024.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 9, 2021

In both versions of the scam, the threat actors send out fake notifications that warn recipients of unusual activity in their account, requiring immediate verification from users who wish to regain access to the platform. “We When analyzing the final destination of the phishing emails, we noticed the following: 54.72 What should victims do?

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

billion in reported losses, up from 2020’s 791,790 complaints and $4.2 There are dozens if not hundreds of types of scams out there, but we’re going to focus on the scams most likely to affect a business, such as phishing or business email compromise (BEC). In 2021 alone, IC3 received 847,376 complaints which amounted to $6.9

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

A short period of time is plenty to get access to sensitive data, exfiltrate it, cover tracks, delete or encrypt valuable data, and potentially increase persistence in the environment for future usage. Preventing phishing attacks, like the latest phony HR scams, should not fall on individual employees alone.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The scam artist John Bernard (left) in a recent Zoom call, and a photo of John Clifton Davies from 2015. Secure Swiss Data is one of several firms founded by Davies/Inside Knowledge and run by Dudorenko , and it advertised itself as a Swiss company that provides encrypted email and data storage services.

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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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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

pic.twitter.com/StU68THrXy — MalwareHunterTeam (@malwrhunterteam) March 6, 2020. Once the GuLoader malware has downloaded an encrypted file from [link] it will decrypt it and inject the malware into the legitimate Windows wininit.exe process. Review the Federal Trade Commission’s page on Charity Scams for more information.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2021

Giving a look at the most aggressive phishing tactics, experts pointed out that Business e-mail compromise (BEC) scams are causing huge economic losses to the victims, with average wire transfer requests in BEC attacks increasing to $85,000, up from $48,000 in Q3 2020. said LaCour, According to John LaCour, in Q1 2021, 94.5%

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

According to a recent analysis conducted by Freshbooks on the rise of Covid scams, email remains one of the most vulnerable outlets for cybercriminals. The Revere Health data breach was small scale compared to the 2020 MEDNAX data breach. The FBI’s 2020 Internet Crime Report found that businesses and consumers lost a combined $1.8

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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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SecureWorld News

JUNE 15, 2021

Phishing activity doubled in 2020, largely due to the pandemic and remote work, and continued to climb in the first month of 2021. The numbers Agari has discovered are quite staggering: "Agari found that the average amount requested in wire transfer BEC attacks increased 14 percent from $75,000 in Q4 2020 to $85,000 in Q1 2021.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2021

The files are then held for ransom and the victim is threatened by data loss, because of the encryption, and leaking of the exfiltrated data. Files are encrypted with a combination of AES-256 and RSA-4096 via the Microsoft CryptoAPI , as per CrowdStrike. Earlier versions appended the.CONTI extension to encrypted files.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

“Cyber criminal threat actors exploit network vulnerabilities to exfiltrate data and encrypt systems in a sector that is increasingly reliant on smart technologies, industrial control systems, and internet-based automation systems. ransomware and phishing scams). ” reads the FBI’s PIN. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 15, 2024

These unique and rather intimate data points can be used to exploit users in highly targeted marketing and advertising campaigns - or perhaps even used to facilitate scams and malware via advertising tools third parties who may receive such information provide to advertisers. and actively used/shared.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Last year, researchers at Minerva Labs spotted the botnet being used to blast out sextortion scams. The Mylobot malware includes more than 1,000 hard-coded and encrypted domain names, any one of which can be registered and used as control networks for the infected hosts. million from private investors.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

According to one report , 18 million Americans were defrauded through scams involving digital wallets and person-to-person payment apps in 2020. Unfortunately, this has also presented opportunities for criminals to capitalize on these shifting behaviors, and digital transformation has made this a more attractive target than ever.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Ryuk Ransomware evolution avoid encrypting Linux folders. More than 100 Chinese nationals arrested in Nepal over suspected cyber scam. Top cybersecurity Predictions for 2020. NVIDIA patches CVE-2019-5702 high-severity flaw in GeForce Experience. Windows systems at Maastricht University were infected with a ransomware.

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Vipre

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

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. . Like we mentioned earlier, cybercriminals and hackers thrive on this frantic energy to slip in and scam when they can. Watch out for charity scams. .

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