Krebs on Security
MAY 22, 2023
Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. ” One of the crypto investment scam messages promoted in the spam campaigns on Mastodon this month. “On Twitter, more spam and crypto scam.”
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 4, 2022
Email scammers sent an Uber to the home of an 80-year-old woman who responded to a well-timed email scam, in a bid to make sure she went to the bank and wired money to the fraudsters. But my mom went over to the neighbor’s house and they saw it for what it was — a scam.”
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Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
We don’t know much about the source of the November 2021 incident, other than GoDaddy’s statement that it involved a compromised password, and that it took about two months for the company to detect the intrusion. One multifactor option — physical security keys — appears to be immune to these advanced scams.
Krebs on Security
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Recent weeks have seen a sizable uptick in the number of phishing scams targeting U.S. A different domain with that same Google Analytics code that was registered in 2021 is peraltansepeda[.]com Most phishing scams invoke a temporal element that warns of negative consequences should you fail to respond or act quickly.
Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 3, 2022
Urlscan also found this phishing scam from Jan. More recently in late 2021, Jeremy Fuchs of Avanan wrote that the use of a LinkedIn URL may mean that any profession — the market for LinkedIn — could click. Here’s one example from Jan. A recent phishing site that abused LinkedIn’s marketing redirect.
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.
Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 19, 2021
What follows is a deep dive into how this increasingly clever Zelle fraud scam typically works, and what victims can do about it. Last week’s story warned that scammers are blasting out text messages about suspicious bank transfers as a pretext for immediately calling and scamming anyone who responds via text.
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