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Watch out for the Steam skin “free knife” scam

Malwarebytes

A certain type of scam is showing signs of activity at the moment and it’s likely to claim some victims before the week is out. Are skins used in scams? One of the oldest scams around is skin phishing. Account compromise, and/or malware usually follows. What does this particular scam involve? Oh boy, are they ever.

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SEC X account hacked to hawk crypto-scams

Malwarebytes

With this control they can intercept messages, two-factor authentication (2FA) codes, and eventually reset passwords of the account the number has control over. Although apparently the SEC did not have 2FA enabled for its X account! SMS-based 2FA is vulnerable to SIM swapping and if you can avoid it, we suggest you do.

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Cupid or Cybercriminal: Arkose Labs Data Predicts 80% Rise in Romance Scams this Valentine’s Day

Security Boulevard

Valentine’s Day is a prime activity period for romance scams and fake accounts. The post Cupid or Cybercriminal: Arkose Labs Data Predicts 80% Rise in Romance Scams this Valentine’s Day appeared first on Security Boulevard. But for those who don’t already have a special someone in their […].

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Taking on the Next Generation of Phishing Scams

Google Security

Posted by Daniel Margolis, Software Engineer, Google Account Security Team Every year, security technologies improve: browsers get better , encryption becomes ubiquitous on the Web , authentication becomes stronger. But phishing persistently remains a threat (as shown by a recent phishing attack on the U.S.

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Darwinium upgrades its payment fraud protection platform

CSO Magazine

Use cases for the Darwinium platform include account security, scam detection, account takeover, fraudulent new accounts, synthetic identities, and bot intelligence.

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U.S. Energy Company Targeted by QR Code Phishing Campaign

SecureWorld News

The emails in the campaign purported to be from Microsoft, and they claimed that the recipient needed to update their account security settings or activate two-factor authentication (2FA)/multi-factor authentication (MFA) within 72 hours. This phishing scam is a reminder of the dangers of QR codes.

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YouTube Accounts Hijacked by Cookie Theft Malware

Hacker Combat

Google has reported that it disrupted the phishing attacks where threat actors had tried to hijack various YouTube accounts using cookie theft malware. The hijacker’s intent was to use those accounts to promote different crypto-currency scams. . Such accounts have a buying price ranging from $3 to $4,000. .