Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2021

A Latvian woman has been charged for their alleged role in a transnational cybercrime organisation. Money mules and spear phishing are thrown into the mix alongside social engineering and international theft of money, personal, and confidential information. What happened this week, you ask? Peeling back the TrickBot onion.

Cybercrime 105

Cybercrime Malware Banking Phishing 105

SecureWorld News

MARCH 22, 2021

The FBI notes that the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has been key to its mission to track cybercrimes. The IC3 "provides the public with a trustworthy source for information on cyber criminal activity," and also is a useful tool for victims to report a cybercrime. Business Email Compromise 2020. IC3's Recovery Asset Team (RAT).

Cybercrime 55

Cybercrime Scams Banking Accountability 55

Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

Resecurity has uncovered a cybercriminal faction known as “ GXC Team “, who specializes in crafting tools for online banking theft, ecommerce deception, and internet scams. For the tool to function, the operator must input a list of compromised email accounts to be scanned.

Artificial Intelligence 119

Artificial Intelligence Banking Scams Cybercrime 119

Identity IQ

MAY 7, 2021

What is Account Takeover? Account takeover, also known as ATO, is a form of identity theft in which a malicious third party gains access to or “takes over” an online account. One of the primary reasons behind this massive rise in account takeover is the relative ease with which it can be done. Account Takeover Prevention.

Accountability 105

Accountability Data breaches Passwords Social Engineering 105

SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

With trillions of dollars of digital payments made every year, it is no wonder that attackers target electronic wallets, online shopping accounts and other financial assets, inventing new techniques and reusing good old ones. Online shopping brands were the most popular lure, accounting for 41.65% of financial phishing attempts.

Phishing 92

Phishing Banking Mobile Scams 92

CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 17, 2022

The aim behind the said social engineering attack is simple, one to trap employees with fake job offers and second to lure customers in signing up the page and then steal their currency. NOTE – Lazarus is also known in the world of cybercrime as Guardians of Peace and is being run and funded by the government of North Korea.

Social Engineering 117

Social Engineering Cryptocurrency Education Cybercrime 117

The Last Watchdog

JULY 13, 2023

The economic impact of cybercrime on business across the globe continues to reach new levels, with the cost predicted to reach US$10.5 Beazley’s European insurance company, Beazley Insurance dac, is regulated by the Central Bank of Ireland and is A rated by A.M. trillion by 2025, a 300% increase since 2015 1. Best and A+ by Fitch.

Cyber Risk 189

Cyber Risk Risk Insurance Energy and Utilities 189

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

According to interviews with several sources, this hybrid phishing gang has a remarkably high success rate, and operates primarily through paid requests or “bounties,” where customers seeking access to specific companies or accounts can hire them to target employees working remotely at home. A phishing page (helpdesk-att[.]com)

Phishing 357

Phishing VPN Social Engineering Media 357

Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2020

A screen shot from a user account at “Snowden,” a long-running reshipping mule service. It stands to reason that the virus outbreak might depress cybercriminal demand for “dumps,” or stolen account data that can be used to create physical counterfeit credit cards.

Cybercrime 308

Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Marketing Scams 308

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

As the reports covering all of 2022 start trickling in, we can see that cybercrime and other types of fraud had a major impact last year. UK Finance is the collective voice for the UK’s banking and finance industry, representing around 300 firms across the industry. More than half (58.2 Sharing intelligence on emerging threats.

Scams 78

Scams Banking Cyber Insurance Phishing 78

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 26, 2020

For several years beginning around 2010, a lone teenager in Vietnam named Hieu Minh Ngo ran one of the Internet’s most profitable and popular services for selling “ fullz ,” stolen identity records that included a consumer’s name, date of birth, Social Security number and email and physical address.

Identity Theft 338

Identity Theft Computers and Electronics Hacking Accountability 338

SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to cause a massive wave of poverty, and that invariably translates into more people resorting to crime, including cybercrime. Cracking down hard on the cybercrime world. We might see certain economies crashing and local currencies plummeting, which would make Bitcoin theft a lot more attractive.

Cryptocurrency 103

Cryptocurrency Banking Cybercrime Ransomware 103

Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2023

Rapid7 found a bypass for the recently patched actively exploited Ivanti EPMM bug Russian APT29 conducts phishing attacks through Microsoft Teams Hackers already installed web shells on 581 Citrix servers in CVE-2023-3519 attacks Zero-day in Salesforce email services exploited in targeted Facebook phishing campaign Burger King forgets to put a password (..)

Malware 78

Malware Cybercrime Cryptocurrency Social Engineering 78

Malwarebytes

JUNE 23, 2022

Europol has coordinated a joint operation to arrest members of a cybercrime gang and effectively dismantle their campaigns that netted million in Euros. Once recipients opened the link, they would be directed to a bogus bank website. Here, they were encouraged to enter their banking credentials.

Phishing 99

Phishing Banking Cryptocurrency Scams 99

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 6, 2020

This can make them particularly susceptible to social engineering trickery, the trigger for online extortion and fraud campaigns, Bastable told me. BEC campaigns accounted for an estimated $26 billion in cybercrime-related losses reported to the FBI over a three year period. The total stolen: $2.3 It’s simple fraud.”

Scams 147

Scams Social Engineering Ransomware Engineering 147

Malwarebytes

AUGUST 7, 2022

Sadly this makes the subject valuable material for fraudsters, playing into people’s fears with a dash of social engineering to make them worse off than they were previously. Fraudsters inform potential victims that they need to hand over bank details in order to qualify. Shall we take a look? Identifiers of an attack.

Scams 82

Scams Social Engineering Banking Phishing 82

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

The stolen data also includes driver’s license numbers and/or social security numbers. The intrusion resulted from a social engineering attack on a third-party IT support vendor used by Caesars Entertainment. ” The investigation is still ongoing to determine the extent of security incident.

Social Engineering 111

Social Engineering Ransomware Banking Cyber Attacks 111

BH Consulting

JUNE 13, 2023

Almost three-quarters of breaches (74 per cent) involve the human element through error, social engineering, stolen credentials or misusing privileges. Half of all social engineering attacks involve ‘pretexting’, where criminals fabricate a story to trick the victim.

Social Engineering 52

Social Engineering Data breaches Scams DDOS 52

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. To this end, some impressive technology has been created to combat the technological side of the issue, to keep hackers and similar bad actors from accessing data and account privileges they shouldn’t. 70% of attacks were on banks. Social Tactics. Technological tactics.

Social Engineering 118

Social Engineering Energy and Utilities Phishing Scams 118

Security Affairs

MARCH 10, 2020

Microsoft is warning of human-operated ransomware, this kind of attack against businesses is becoming popular in the cybercrime ecosystem. Human-operated ransomware is a technique usually employed in nation-state attacks that is becoming very popular in the cybercrime ecosystem. ” continues Microsoft.

Ransomware 116

Ransomware Cybercrime Social Engineering Banking 116

Malwarebytes

JULY 23, 2021

During their investigation the police received help from the threat intelligence firm Group-IB that specializes in investigating and preventing cybercrimes. When victims submit their banking credentials, the phishing site sends them to the web panel where the fraudster is waiting. Always go to your banking site directly.

Phishing 115

Phishing Banking Password Management Scams 115

Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

“For instance, a “premium” page may include elements of social engineering, such as an appealing design, promises of large earnings, an anti-detection system and so on.” Data includes verified online banking credentials, in some cases phishers also provides info on the account balances.

Phishing 90

Phishing Scams Social Engineering Banking 90

Identity IQ

DECEMBER 20, 2023

This signals a new era of cybercrime where private data becomes prized currency, putting every email address and credit card number at risk. Major Breaches of 2023 Casino operator attacks: Casino giants MGM and Caesars were hit by disruptive cyberattacks in September involving concerning tactics such as social engineering.

Data breaches 72

Data breaches Identity Theft Cybercrime Social Engineering 72

Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Phishing is a type of social engineering scam most commonly hidden in a fraudulent email but sometimes via text message, website, or phone call where a criminal posing as a legitimate institution, such as a bank or service, tries to obtain sensitive information from a target victim. What is Phishing? How Does Phishing Work?

Phishing 98

Phishing Identity Theft Scams Banking 98

SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In this research, we analyze various types of threats, such as financial malware and phishing pages mimicking the world’s biggest retail platforms, banking and payment systems, and discuss recent trends. In 2022, the number of attacks using banking Trojans doubled when compared to the same period of 2021, reaching almost 20 million.

Phishing 98

Phishing Banking Scams Retail 98

BH Consulting

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Banks and insurance companies are telling customers to be wary of scam messages. Social engineering techniques, such as phishing, target not the systems but the people using them. So with European Cybersecurity Month here, now’s a good time to familiarise ourselves again with a popular cybercrime tactic. A message to you.

Security Awareness 52

Security Awareness Phishing Scams Social Engineering 52

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 14, 2023

In a collaborative partnership, officials in the United States and the United Kingdom unmasked and imposed financial sanctions against seven members of the notorious Russian gang TrickBot (alias "TrickLoader"), a mainstream banking Trojan turned malware-as-a-service (MaaS) platform for other criminals. Educate your staff.

Ransomware 64

Ransomware Backups Banking Social Engineering 64

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2021

TA544 is a financially motivated threat actor that is active at least since 2017, it focuses on attacks on banking users, it leverages banking malware and other payloads to target organizations worldwide, mainly in Italy and Japan. The spam messages use weaponized office documents to drop the Ursnif banking Trojan in the final stage.

Malware 84

Malware Banking Social Engineering Retail 84

SecureWorld News

JULY 27, 2023

Some highlights include: Stealers are primarily sold on cybercrime forums. Zero-Day attacks get the headlines when they happen, but users falling for phishing attacks or other social engineering attacks happen every day without fail. They are often spread by malicious advertising, spam, and compromised accounts.

Malware 67

Malware Social Engineering Passwords Spyware 67

Security Affairs

MAY 24, 2019

Getting your paycheck deposited directly into your bank account seems like a handy solution but in some cases. Getting your paycheck deposited directly into your bank account seems like a handy solution because you don’t have to pick up the check from your workplace and take it to the bank to deposit it.

Phishing 91

Phishing Accountability Banking Social Engineering 91

Security Affairs

MARCH 30, 2020

The Zeus Sphinx malware was first observed on August 2015, a few days after a new variant of the popular Zeus banking trojan was offered for sale on hacker forums, Now the Zeus Sphinx malware is back, operators are spreading it in a spam campaign aimed at stealing victims’ financial information. . ” continues the post.

Banking 102

Banking Malware Social Engineering Advertising 102

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The City of Ocala in Florida is the last victim in order of time of a profitable business email compromise scam (BEC) attack, fraudsters redirected over $742,000 to a bank account under their control. This phase involves social engineering techniques, OSING, and also malware. ” reported BleepingComputer.

Scams 46

Scams Banking Social Engineering Accountability 46

Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2023

Kaspersky researchers noticed that the group had created numerous fake domains impersonating venture capital firms and banks in a campaign tracked as ‘SnatchCrypto’. The use of fake domains impersonating venture capital firms and social engineering tactics observed by Jamf lead the experts into attributing the attacks to BlueNoroff.

Malware 83

Malware Social Engineering Architecture Education 83

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Group-IB assisted Paxful, an international peer-to-peer cryptocurrency marketplace, in countering web-bot and social engineering attacks. Group-IB Secure Portal also managed to identify over 100,000 accounts with three or more logins from the same device. million customers against possible attacks. About Group-IB.

Cryptocurrency 59

Cryptocurrency Social Engineering eCommerce Engineering 59

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 25, 2022

), and finally with stealing not only your searches and browsing data, but also affiliation to 10,000 targeted sites — a capability that is easily leveraged for targeted spear phishing, account takeover and credential extraction — all using this powerful network of millions of infected computers worldwide!” Pierluigi Paganini.

Social Engineering 88

Social Engineering Phishing Accountability Banking 88

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

As stated in Group-IB’s annual report “ Hi-Tech Crime Trends 2018 ” presented at the CyberCrimeCon18 conference, every month, 1-2 banks lose money as a result of cyber attacks, and the damage caused by one successful theft is, on average, $2 million. Considering this, banks need to rethink their approach to protection against cyber threats.

Cyber Attacks 83

Cyber Attacks Banking Cyber threats Phishing 83

SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

As the financial threat landscape has been dramatically evolving over the past few years, with the expansion of such activities as ransomware or cryptofraud, we believe it is no longer sufficient to look at the threats to traditional financial institutions (like banks), but rather assess financial threats as a whole.

Cryptocurrency 86

Cryptocurrency Mobile Ransomware Banking 86