Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2023

This post analyzed the numerous phishing campaigns targeting users and organizations in Italy. Phishing is a ploy to trick users into revealing personal or financial information through an e-mail, Web site, and even through instant messaging. Phishing can also be used as a precursor attack to drop malware. Just to name a few.

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Identity IQ

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Common Holiday Scams and How to Avoid Them IdentityIQ The holiday season is a time for celebration, giving, and spending time with loved ones. Here are some of the most common holiday scams and how to help avoid them. Here are some of the most common holiday scams and how to help avoid them.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2021

Overall, fraud accounts for 73% of all online attacks: 56% are scams (fraud that results in the victim voluntarily disclosing sensitive data) and 17% are phishing attacks (theft of bank card details). Insurance companies around the world are now suffering from phishing. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Identifying scams Before we dive headfirst into the cyber safety tips, let’s equip ourselves with the ultimate weapon: knowledge. Scams are the digital equivalent of a snake oil salesperson peddling miracle cures. Let’s embrace the golden rule of scam detection: skepticism. Sweepstakes and awards scams Congratulations!

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The profile also linked to Mr. Lee’s Twitter/X account , which features the same profile image. Sure, Doug said, here’s my Calendly profile, book a time and we’ll do it then. “Some of our users are facing issues with our service,” the message read. “We are actively working on fixing these problems.

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Hot for Security

JANUARY 26, 2021

Fraudsters impersonating UK’s National Health Service (NHS) are actively exploiting the COVID-19 vaccination campaign to dupe citizens into providing their personal information through various phishing emails. The campaign seems to have started on January 25, as seen in the scam recipients’ multiple Twitter posts.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 7, 2022

In a scheme reminiscent of some sort of comic book supervillain, Filippo Bernadini was arrested at JKF International Airport on Wednesday. Throwing the book at crime. According to the FBI, multiple fake email accounts were created, impersonating real people in the publishing space. Can I have your next book, please?

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Case in point: we’re already seeing scams targeting World Cup fans more than a year out from the event. In Q3 2021 , online stores were in second place by share of recorded phishing attacks (20.63%). Amazon was consistently the most popular lure used by cybercriminals to launch phishing attacks. Methodology.

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Approachable Cyber Threats

JANUARY 4, 2023

You may be familiar with phishing - emails that look legitimate, but are malicious attempts to get your personal information. They can also use text messages to entice victims to click on links in scams known as “smishing.” “OK, So what do smishing scams look like?” OK, what is Smishing?” Is this even a word?

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

In each attack, the victims saw their email and financial accounts compromised after suffering an unauthorized SIM-swap, wherein attackers transferred each victim’s mobile phone number to a new device that they controlled. A booking photo of Noah Michael Urban released by the Volusia County Sheriff. Twilio disclosed in Aug.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

They might even lock you out of your own accounts by resetting your passwords. Hackers use intercepted data to hijack your current session on a website, giving them access to your private accounts and information. Check your social media accounts for active sessions and log out of any you don’t recognize.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 5, 2021

In what is known to our Cybersecurity Insiders, the accommodation booking agency meant for travelers suffered a data leak when scamsters called in 40 of its employees based in the United Arab Emirates to get sensitive info related to customers.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 18, 2023

Several trip-related scams are doing the rounds right now, and we’re going to highlight some of the more prevalent ones. The risk of this has increased since Twitter started charging for blue checkmarks, as many legitimate accounts now sport no visible means of authentication. Here’s the main easyJet account , for example.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

This deal reads like to the epilogue to a book titled The First 20 Years of the Supremely Lucrative Antivirus Market. There are simple steps consumers can take today, for free, to lower their overall risk of a cyber attack, including using multi-factor authentication for their accounts and using strong passwords. LW: Anything else?

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Adam Levin

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

More Phishing Attacks. Phishing may seem like an ordinary part of online life, but it could also be the initial volley in a major cyberattack. Phishing here is shorthand for the Pantheon of Ishings: generic, spearphishing (personalized), vishing (phone based), and SMishing (text based). It may look just like the real thing.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

users China-linked APT40 used ScanBox Framework in a long-running espionage campaign Russian streaming platform Start discloses a data breach impacting 7.5M users China-linked APT40 used ScanBox Framework in a long-running espionage campaign Russian streaming platform Start discloses a data breach impacting 7.5M

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Are they already firing out tweets, chatting in Discord channels, or even just looking to set up a Tik-Tok account? Find your friends (in other words, import your address book and make connections between email addresses and social media profiles). Any platform you can think of has scams particularly suited to it.

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BH Consulting

JUNE 13, 2023

Finance fraud and phishing scams increase in Ireland, too Financial fraud and scams in Ireland have risen by 560 per cent in three years. Phishing frauds involving email, text messages and video were up by 417 per cent in the same time period. MORE Have you signed up to our monthly newsletter?

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

A bug in Instagram exposed user accounts and phone numbers. Crooks hacked other celebrity Instagram accounts to push scams. Magecart attackers target mobile users of hotel chain booking websites. taxpayers hit by a phishing campaign delivering the Amadey bot. Once again thank you!

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2023

It can be challenging for defences to distinguish between insider threats and regular user activity since insider threats employ genuine accounts, passwords, and IT technologies. Some are unaware of their involvement and fall victim to social engineering techniques like phishing scams. She is also a regular writer at Bora.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

And this positive upswing could be reinforced by stricter adherence to, not just the letter, but the spirit of data security laws already on the books in several nations. What’s more the FBI reports that Business Email Compromise (BEC) accounted for an estimated $26 billion in cybercrime-related losses over a three year period.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Your Web browser knows how to find a Web site name like example.com thanks to the global Domain Name System (DNS), which serves as a kind of phone book for the Internet by translating human-friendly Web site names (example.com) into numeric Internet address that are easier for computers to manage. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com).

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Whether you’re looking for a smartphone, a laptop, a gaming device or something else, or even just signing up for an account online, you want to make sure your kids are protected. Keep your online accounts secure. And if your child uses the same password across multiple accounts, when one gets breached they are all vulnerable.

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Spinone

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Security Awareness Training from Advisera Advisera offers lots of tools like books, courses, and guidelines for those who want to know more about compliance standards and become security-aware. In case you want to train your employees, you may need to use a company account to be able to set scheduled lessons for your staff.

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SecureList

AUGUST 5, 2021

In Q2 2021, corporate accounts continued to be one of the most tempting targets for cybercriminals. A fake notification about a Microsoft Teams meeting or a request to view an important document traditionally takes the victim to a phishing login page asking for corporate account credentials. Parcel scam: buy one, get none.

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Pen Test Partners

MARCH 13, 2024

TL:DR Being asked to speak at events is great …except when it looks like a scam or a phishing attempt This is walkthrough of my experience If you think it’s a scam, it probably is It’s a typical Sunday evening, and as I’m gearing up for the week ahead and an interesting email lands in my inbox. The message?

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Security Through Education

JUNE 22, 2021

Throughout the scam, fraudsters will often build trust with their targets via computer, phone, and the mail. Not The Oldest Tricks in the Book. According to NOCA (National Council on Aging) these are the top ten financial scams targeting the elderly as of February 2021. Government Imposter Scams. The grandparent scam.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 8, 2023

Faced with customers trying to use WormGPT to create ransomware and phishing scams, the 23-year-old Portuguese programmer who created the project now says his service is slowly morphing into “a more controlled environment.” ” SlashNext asked WormGPT to compose this BEC phishing email. . Image: SlashNext.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 11, 2022

He writes about this in his book, "Ghost in the Wires": "I would call the company I'd targeted, ask for their computer room, make sure I was talking to a system administrator, and tell him, 'This is [whatever fictitious name popped into my head at that moment], from DEC support. Hacker targets victims with fear.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 12, 2021

I have to be aware that phishing scams may be used against me. The second problem is that you don't need a data breach to get spam, unsolicited phone calls or phishes. Spam, unsolicited phone calls and phishes don't just come from data breaches and it's enormously difficult to reliably attribute them back to a source.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2019

People who responded to recruitment messages were invited to create an account at one of these sites, enter personal and bank account data (mules were told they would be processing payments for their employer’s “programmers” based in Eastern Europe) and then log in each day to check for new messages. indep: Yeah.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 24, 2023

billion in 2022 due to imposter scams, according to U.S. FTC Consumer Sentinel Network’s data book. Website impersonation (also known as “brandjacking”) draws users to fraudulent copies of a brand’s website to trick them into revealing personal and financial account information used to steal their identities and funds.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 3, 2022

Another teacher in the system got phished and the phisher sent an email to a bunch of other teachers, offering them a summer job as an administrative assistant, earning $500 weekly for working only 8 hours. Why does it say "Not School Email!" -- because this exact scam is being conducted by phishing people in schools all across the country!

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 25, 2022

Dancho Danchev’s Primary Contact Points for this Project – Email/XMPP/Jabber/OMEMO and PGP Key Accounts. Dancho Danchev’s Privacy and Security Research Compilation – Medium Account Research Compilation – [PDF]. Dancho Danchev’s Upcoming Cybercrime Research OSINT and Threat Intelligence Gathering E-Book Titles – Sample E-Book Covers.

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SecureList

MARCH 7, 2024

To get access to the content (or contest), phishing sites prompted the victim to sign in to one of their gaming accounts. If the victim entered their credentials on the phishing form, the account was hijacked. The information could later be used to steal both funds from victims’ accounts and their identities.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 15, 2019

Unsettling new claims have emerged about Nicholas Truglia , a 21-year-old Manhattan resident accused of hijacking cell phone accounts to steal tens of millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies from victims. Truglia allegedly struck up a conversation about booking private jets with his cryptocurrency. “Gradually, I got to know Nick.

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A group of teenagers used social engineering to breach Twitter's network and take over the accounts of a whole bunch of A-listers. People like Barack Obama, Bill Gates, Kim Kardashian West, Jeff Bezos, and Elon Musk were suddenly tweeting about a can't miss double your bitcoin opportunity, that was really a scam.

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