The State of Security

JULY 22, 2021

Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog. Police in Spain have arrested a British man in connection with what many consider the worst hack in Twitter's history.

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Identity IQ

MAY 9, 2022

What are NFT Scams? Most NFT scams happen when a bad actor steals a participant’s cryptocurrency wallet login or tricks a buyer into believing they have successfully purchased or sold a legitimate NFT. Here’s a Rundown of the Most Common NFT Scams and How to Help Avoid Them. IdentityIQ. Watch out for Chats on Discord.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 6, 2022

Common Tech Support Scams and How to Avoid Them. Whether we’re ordering groceries or looking for new shoes, all we need to do is create an account, fill out some basic personal details and log in. But what happens when that account is compromised – or when we think that account is compromised? Travel industry scams.

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The State of Security

MAY 27, 2021

Are you doing enough to prevent scammers from hijacking your social media accounts? Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 5, 2022

There’s a lot of concern in the cryptocurrency realm at the moment. Site down , Twitter account deleted , no word from the team behind it explaining what happened. Yield farming is a popular target for scams, as lots of money is dropped into new services with the hope of big payouts via passive income earnings further down the line.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 2, 2021

Victims lost the most money to business email compromise scams, romance and confidence schemes and investment fraud. Notably, last year saw the emergence of scams exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic. Phishing Scams. Phishing scams accounted for 241,342 complaints in the report, generating $54 million in total damages.

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Graham Cluley

JANUARY 10, 2024

The official Twitter account of the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) was hacked yesterday, with scammers posting an unauthorised message to its 660,000+ followers. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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Digital Shadows

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Whether you’re a crypto-skeptic or a crypto-maximalist, it cannot be denied that the mostly unregulated cryptocurrency ecosystem is no stranger to fraud. To conduct attacks specifically linked to cryptocurrency, threat actors must usually cooperate within a web of associates—just like any other area of cyber crime.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 1, 2023

The Rise of AI Social Engineering Scams IdentityIQ In today’s digital age, social engineering scams have become an increasingly prevalent threat. In fact, last year, scams accounted for 80% of reported identity compromises to the Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC).

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Graham Cluley

OCTOBER 29, 2021

Or were they masterminding a "sophisticated fraud" that would net them millions of pounds worth of cryptocurrency? A British teenager who, under under lockdown from his bedroom, created a fake website which stole account details from unsuspecting internet users has had £2.1 million) worth of cryptocurrency seized by the police.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free for you in your email box. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Identity IQ

MAY 9, 2022

What are NFT scams? Most NFT scams happen when a bad actor steals a participant’s cryptocurrency wallet login or tricks a buyer into believing they have successfully purchased or sold a legitimate NFT. Here’s a Rundown of the Most Common NFT Scams and How to Help Avoid Them. IdentityIQ. Watch out for Chats on Discord.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2020

Group-IB discovered thousands of personal records of users from multiple countries exposed in a targeted multi-stage bitcoin scam. The new scheme is similar to the “Bitcoin Evolution” scam, that Group-IB reported on in Feb. Later a victim would be asked to add to their account balance in BTC. .

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Hot for Security

MARCH 9, 2021

Cybercriminals are targeting Coinbase platform users with phishing campaings in an attempt to steal their account credentials and drain their cryptocurrency wallets, Bitdefender Antispam Lab has learned. We recently detected an unusual activity on your coinbase account,” one of the fraudulent messages reads. percent from Japan.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 19, 2022

The more digital assets like cryptocurrency and non-fungible tokens (NFTs) gain mainstream appeal and legitimacy, the more cybercriminals are going to seek out vulnerabilities and target them for the attack. Watch out for increasingly sophisticated scams that target digital forms of currency and property. Natural Disaster Scams.

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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. Spear phishing.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Some games lock the items, such as outfits, weapons, or valuables, to your account and/or characters. Their accounts and digital items are highly coveted by scammers and account compromisers. Beamers use a variety of tricks to compromise accounts, and then head off to various shady marketplaces.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 16, 2022

The campaign distributes a file known for password theft, and hunts for those passwords in browsers, cookies, a variety of cryptocurrency wallets, VPN clients, and many more besides. This is the basis of a basic YouTube scam. Finally, many scams of this nature use URL shortening services. When history repeats itself.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

BEC or Email Account Compromise (EAC) was known as the $26 billion scam in 2019. The basics of the BEC scam are explained in a July 2021 SecureWorld article that interviewed Stephen Dougherty of the U.S. Dougherty said: "BEC is a cyber enabled financial fraud attack, where criminal actors get into email accounts.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2023

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

Transactions on the dark web are typically conducted using cryptocurrencies such as Bitcoin to maintain anonymity. You probably use the deep web all the time — examples may include bank accounts, your email, and login-restricted content such as news or streaming entertainment. The FBI shut down the Silk Road in October 2013.

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Identity IQ

JANUARY 17, 2023

Every year, up to 10% of Americans fall for a scam, which often leads to the exposure of their personal data, according to Legaljobs. Other types of data that you should consider private include: Your bank account number and card details. Login information for online accounts you have. IdentityIQ. Credit card details.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Thus, during the World Cup a brand-new scam appeared: it offered users to win a newly released iPhone 14 for predicting match outcomes. These sites referenced public figures and humanitarian groups, offering to accept cash in cryptocurrency, something that should have raised a red flag in itself.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2020

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Identity IQ

MARCH 7, 2021

This means a criminal might have purchased your bank account details and tax documents online and then have authenticated access to your bank account. When the IRS deposits money into your bank account, the criminal can transfer the money into an untraceable cryptocurrency wallet.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

An impersonation attack recently made headlines with the 2020 Twitter/Bitcoin scam , in which 130 high-profile Twitter accounts were compromised by outside parties to steal bitcoin. This is a scam that’s been around for years and since no one can reverse a cryptocurrency transaction, it’s very likely here to stay.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

We should expect more fraud, targeting mostly BTC , because this cryptocurrency is the most popular. In fact, from January through the end of October, Kaspersky detected more than 2,300 fraudulent global resources aimed at 85,000 potential crypto investors or users who are interested in cryptocurrency mining.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

In this article, we’ll focus on what businesses have learned over the past twelve months, and how this can help us to turn 2022 into a safer and more successful year. In a year of confusion, it’s easy to see how so many workers fell for such scams. What are the key lessons in email security from 2021?

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NopSec

MARCH 29, 2023

Another day goes by, another latest and greatest security breach affects the cryptocurrency world. The attacks range from phishing campaigns scamming prominent crypto personalities of their NFT (Non-fungible tokens) stashes to attackers exploiting crypto protocols and encryption algorithms to extract tokens out of various crypto ecosystems.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 12, 2024

This article is based on research by Marcelo Rivero, Malwarebytes’ ransomware specialist, who monitors information published by ransomware gangs on their Dark Web sites. It decided to leave the ransomware world behind by ripping off its own customers (which are really just affiliates in crime) in a sloppily executed exit scam.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2021

Mindaugas (who wished his last name not to be disclosed publicly), an executive at a UK-based company, unknowingly fell for a scam when he tried to claim a £60 bonus supposedly offered by Coinbase, a mistake that resulted in £15,000 lost to fraudsters in minutes. Falling for the scam. The scammers didn’t waste any time. It was zero.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

In the world of online scams, criminals care about one thing: Your money. Earlier this year, a woman in Tennessee was fooled in an online dating scam by a thief who stole $390,000 of her money. By selling fake raffle tickets for the promotion, the scammers raked in $438,000 worth of cryptocurrency. Don’t ruin your device.

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SecureWorld News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2020

Some not only blindly facilitate the criminal norms of the cryptocurrency marketplace, but their law firms also blithely encourage cryptocurrency transactions by accepting bitcoin as a form of payment for their legal services. This last point about lawyers and cryptocurrency hits home and bothers me the most. Would a U.S.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 25, 2021

Users who naively access and provide their data risk account hijacking, financial loss and identity theft. The second runner-up of this phishing trio targets cryptocurrency aficionados who have set up an account on blockchain.com, a well-known cryptocurrency blockchain explorer and crypto wallet service.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 25, 2021

Users who naively access and provide their data risk account hijacking, financial loss and identity theft. The second runner-up of this phishing trio targets cryptocurrency aficionados who have set up an account on blockchain.com, a well-known cryptocurrency blockchain explorer and crypto wallet service.

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eSecurity Planet

APRIL 21, 2021

From news of a collage selling for almost $70 million at Christie’s auction house to a portrayal of Janet Yellen and Morpheus rapping about cryptocurrency on SNL , the current craze is all about non-fungible tokens (NFTs). NFT-based Scams. NFT-mania, pronounced nifty , is upon us with little time to prepare. How do NFTs work?

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