eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

These malware scams lure individuals with fake conference invitations designed to mimic legitimate meeting requests and exploit users’ trust. ClickFix campaigns represent a new wave of phishing tactics that emerged in May 2024, aimed at exploiting users of popular software applications. What Are ClickFix Campaigns?

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Darktrace today revealed a surge in retail cyberattacks at the opening of the 2024 holiday shopping season. Brands, particularly major retailers like those analyzed, invest significantly in protecting themselves and their customers from scams and cyberattacks, and often step up those measures for the holiday period.

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SecureList

MARCH 3, 2025

The statistics for previous years may differ from earlier publications due to a data and methodology revision implemented in 2024. The year in figures According to Kaspersky Security Network, in 2024: A total of 33.3 The year’s trends In 2024, cybercriminals launched a monthly average of 2.8 A total of 1.1

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2025

Over a year ago the FBI warned about what was then a new form of smishing (phishing via SMS) scam: text messages that demanded payment for toll fees. Then, in April another wave of toll fee scams began doing the rounds. How to avoid falling for toll fee scams Check the phone number that the text message comes from.

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Google Security

MARCH 4, 2025

Product Manager Google Messages and RCS Spam and Abuse Google has been at the forefront of protecting users from the ever-growing threat of scams and fraud with cutting-edge technologies and security expertise for years. Were now introducing Scam Detection to detect a wider range of fraudulent activities.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2024

On the evening of May 15, 2024, Tony was putting his three- and one-year-old boys to bed when he received a message from Google about an account security issue, followed by a phone call from a “Daniel Alexander” at Google who said his account was compromised by hackers. “It’s almost like there’s no consequences.

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Adam Shostack

JANUARY 2, 2025

The most important stories around threat modeling, appsec and secure by design for June, 2024. CBC reports: Winnipeg man caught in scam after AI told him fake Facebook customer support number was legitimate. Sebastian Raschka publishes a monthly roundup of LLM research.

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SecureList

MARCH 25, 2025

Key findings Phishing Banks were the most popular lure in 2024, accounting for 42.58% of financial phishing attempts. Amazon Online Shopping was mimicked by 33.19% of all phishing and scam pages targeting online store users in 2024. Cryptocurrency phishing saw an 83.37% year-over-year increase in 2024, with 10.7

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 18, 2025

Text scams alone cost US citizens at least $470 million in 2024, according to new data from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Because many scams go unreported, though, this dollar amount might be considerably more. Top 5 text scams While scams reach us in many ways, the FTC focused on text scams in their report.

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Webroot

MAY 9, 2025

Text scams, also known as smishing (SMS + phishing ), are on the rise. The Federal Trade Commission reports that in 2024, consumers lost $470 million to scams that started with text messages. Watch out for these common scams Package delivery alerts Package delivery alerts are the most common text scam.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 20, 2024

billion in cryptocurrency in 2024, more than half of the $2.2 Billion in Crypto in 2024 appeared first on Security Boulevard. North Korean hackers stole $1.34 billion stolen in all crypto hacks, and the attacks by threat groups linked to the rogue nation are becoming more frequent and are happening more quickly.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The Russian-speaking Crazy Evil group runs over 10 social media scams, tricking victims into installing StealC, AMOS, and Angel Drainer malware. Security experts identified six Crazy Evil’s subteams, called AVLAND, TYPED, DELAND, ZOOMLAND, DEFI, and KEVLAND, which are running targeted scams for specific victim profiles.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 14, 2025

The feature uses on-device AI to flag potentially fraudulent messages before users interact with them, helping stop scams in real time. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Americans lost $470 million to text scams in 2024. Poor grammar (a common giveaway in phishing scams). Keep your phone OS updated.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 27, 2024

We started off 2024 with a warning from the British National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) telling us it expects AI to heighten the global ransomware threat. And if the accidents didnt scare people off, there were also some outright scams targeting people that were eager to use some of the popular applications of AI.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 18, 2025

In recent months, a sophisticated scam has emerged, targeting drivers across the United States with fraudulent text messages about unpaid road tolls. Smishing scams like these follow a predictable yet highly effective, nefarious behavioral blueprintleveraging urgency, impersonation, and fear to manipulate victims into compliance.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 14, 2025

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2024 Internet Crime Report, marking a record-breaking year in cybercrime. This demographic was frequently targeted by tech support scams, romance scams, and crypto investment frauds. The report highlights a staggering $16.6 billion in losses. billion in losses.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

. “Operation Serengeti (2 September – 31 October) targeted criminals behind ransomware, business email compromise (BEC), digital extortion and online scams – all identified as prominent threats in the 2024 Africa Cyber Threat Assessment Report.” Nigerian authorities arrested a man behind a $300K crypto scam.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2025

This wasnt just a scam operation – it was essentially a cybercrime university that empowered fraudsters globally, NCCIA Director Abdul Ghaffar said at a press briefing. That domain was quickly scooped up by Scylla Intel , a cyber intelligence firm that specializes in connecting cybercriminals to their real-life identities.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2025

Before we get to the Apple scam in detail, we need to revisit Tony’s case. This domain was featured in a writeup from February 2024 by the security firm Lookout , which found it was one of dozens being used by a prolific and audacious voice phishing group it dubbed “ Crypto Chameleon.”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2025

million in USDT stolen through ‘romance baiting’ scams, where victims are tricked into fake investments promising high returns. in USDT (Tether) linked to a ‘romance baiting’ scam. The scam involves emotional manipulation, leaving victims financially devastated and reluctant to report the fraud.

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Webroot

APRIL 11, 2025

According to the IRS, almost 300,000 cases of identity theft were reported in 2024, leading to $5.5 Thats why each year, the IRS releases its list of Dirty Dozen Tax Scams. Common tax scams to watch out for in 2025 IRS Impersonation: The most common type of tax fraud starts with a phone call, text or email. billion in tax fraud.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The targeted SMS scams asked employees to click a link and log in at a website that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page. In January 2024, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that Urban had been arrested in Florida in connection with multiple SIM-swapping attacks. police as part of an FBI investigation into the MGM hack.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Operation HAECHI V (July-Nov 2024) targeted cyber frauds like phishing, romance scams, sextortion, investment fraud, online gambling, BEC, and e-commerce fraud. The authorities have warned of “USDT Token Approval Scam” that allows scammers access to the victims’ cryptocurrency wallets and make unauthorized transactions.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Political ads could be hiding online scams, many people feel, and the election, they say, will likely fall victim to some type of “cyber interference.” For this research, Malwarebytes conducted a pulse survey of its newsletter readers between September 5 and 16, 2024, via the Alchemer Survey platform. Avoid robocalls and phone scams.

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BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 22, 2024

MORE A new Android security feature warns of potential scam calls… MORE A malware campaign in Switzerland circulated infected QR codes via letter. Sign up here The post Security Roundup November 2024 appeared first on BH Consulting. MORE Have you signed up to our monthly newsletter?

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

A scan of social media networks showed this is not an uncommon scam. In June 2024, booking.com told the BBC that phishing attacks targeting travelers had increased 900 percent, and that thieves taking advantage of new artificial intelligence (AI) tools were the primary driver of this trend.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

That investigation detailed how the 38-year-old Shefel adopted the nickname Rescator while working as vice president of payments at ChronoPay , a Russian financial company that paid spammers to advertise fake antivirus scams, male enhancement drugs and knockoff pharmaceuticals. Ermakov was recently found guilty and given two years probation.

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Trend Micro

OCTOBER 30, 2024

election, cybersecurity experts were calling October 2024 the “month of mischief”—a magnet for bad actors looking to disrupt the democratic process through AI-generated misinformation. This issue of AI Pulse looks at what can be done about deepfakes and other AI scams, and why defense-in-depth is the only way to go.

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Security Affairs

MAY 28, 2025

Apple blocked over $9B in fraud in 5 years, including $2B in 2024, stopping scams from deceptive apps to fake payment schemes on the App Store. In the past five years alone, Apple says it has blocked over $9 billion in fraudulent transactions, more than $2 billion of that in 2024, highlighting its ongoing efforts to keep users safe.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 27, 2025

But falling for some phishing scams, like those currently targeting Russians searching online for organizations that are fighting the Kremlin war machine, can cost you your freedom or your life. Many successful phishing attacks result in a financial loss or malware infection.

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Trend Micro

JUNE 26, 2024

In this blog we uncover threat actors using the 2024 Olympics to lure victims into investing in an initial coin offering (ICO). Similar schemes have been found to use AI-generated images for their fake ICO websites.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 28, 2024

Multiple media reports this week warned Americans to be on guard against a new phishing scam that arrives in a text message informing recipients they are not yet registered to vote. Some people interviewed who received the messages said they figured it was a scam because they knew for a fact they were registered to vote in their state.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 11, 2024

New AI Scams to Look Out For in 2024 IdentityIQ Artificial intelligence (AI) has quickly reshaped many aspects of everyday life. Here are three new AI scams to look out for in 2024 as well as some tips to help protect yourself and stay prepared for the explosive development of AI.

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The Hacker News

AUGUST 6, 2024

INTERPOL said it devised a "global stop-payment mechanism" that helped facilitate the largest-ever recovery of funds defrauded in a business email compromise (BEC) scam. The development comes after an unnamed commodity firm based in Singapore fell victim to a BEC scam in mid-July 2024.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 4, 2024

The X account of cybersecurity giant Mandiant was hacked, attackers used it to impersonate the Phantom crypto wallet and push a cryptocurrency scam. Crooks hacked the X account of cybersecurity firm Mandiant and used it to impersonate the Phantom crypto platform and share a cryptocurrency scam.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In late October 2024, a new scheme for distributing a certain Android banking Trojan called “Mamont” was uncovered. Both scams targeted individual users only. We reported the scam accounts and channels to Telegram, but the messaging service had done nothing to block them at the time of writing this.

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Webroot

MARCH 3, 2025

This month, take advantage of all that NCPW offers, including access to free tools and information that can help you identify and prevent online scams, fraud, and identity theft. The growing risks to your data During the third quarter of 2024, data breaches exposed more than 422 million records worldwide.

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