CSO Magazine

MARCH 15, 2023

Cybercriminals have started taking advantage of Silicon Valley Bank’s (SVB) downfall to carrying out scams that can steal money, and bank account information, or infect customers’ systems with malware. This means these customers will receive notifications including the new bank account numbers from their new bank.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2024

The X account of cybersecurity firm Mandiant was likely hacked through a brute-force password attack, the company revealed. Last week, threat actors hacked the X account of cybersecurity firm Mandiant and used it to impersonate the Phantom crypto platform and share a cryptocurrency scam. Sorry, change password please.”

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

A Cookie Theft malware was employed in phishing attacks against YouTube creators, Google’s Threat Analysis Group (TAG) warns. Financially motivated threat actors are using Cookie Theft malware in phishing attacks against YouTube creators since late 2019. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini.

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SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

A significant share of scam, phishing and malware attacks is about money. 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. million in 2022. of attacks.

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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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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Whether you’ve been naughty or nice, someone will try and stuff a scam down your chimney either way. Social media shopping scams. Often, these scams lead consumers to participate in an online survey that is designed to steal personal information. At worst, you could run into malware. Work from home scams.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

No matter which of the many accounts post up these videos, they all typically link to the same download hosting site. When free games lead to Malware. Researchers at Cluster25 spotted similar activity , targeting a multitude of interests including how-to guides, cryptocurrency, VPN software, and more. Tips to avoid scams.

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We Live Security

JANUARY 14, 2022

How malware exploits security flaws in kernel drivers – Watch out for cryptocurrency scams – Why loyalty accounts are a target for criminals. The post Week in security with Tony Anscombe appeared first on WeLiveSecurity.

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SecureList

JULY 11, 2022

In terms of topics and techniques, text-based fraud can be divided into several types: Dating scams. Let’s take a look at these types of scams and see why they work. Dating scams. Example of a dating scam e-mail. Dating scams are the least common type of message-based fraud. 419 scam with transactions.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 16, 2023

According to the FBI: “The malicious apps enable theft of personally identifiable information (PII) , financial account access, or device takeover.” In an earlier warning the FBI focused on scammers that haunt forums and comments sections, looking for victims who have lost cryptocurrency to fraud, scams, and theft.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Web hosting giant GoDaddy made headlines this month when it disclosed that a multi-year breach allowed intruders to steal company source code, siphon customer and employee login credentials, and foist malware on customer websites. But we do know the March 2020 attack was precipitated by a spear-phishing attack against a GoDaddy employee.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 2, 2021

Internet scams are everywhere, inflicting billions of dollars in reported losses from victims each year. Anyone can fall for online scams, as tactics are tailored to the interests of all age groups. Let’s take a closer look at some of the most common scams: Coronavirus-related scams. IRS and Bank-related scams.

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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 16, 2022

It’s reported that a malware distribution campaign is leveraging YouTube to push infection files. 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.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 1, 2024

Cybercriminals are targeting Mac users interested in cryptocurrency opportunities with fake calendar invites. In reality the link runs a script to install Mac malware on the target’s machine. A fake account pretending to be one of our team members is going around DM-ing people on Telegram.

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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. It has links to multiple types of cyber crime, including ransomware, carding, phishing, and malware development.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. A single bitcoin is trading at around $45,000.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Experts spotted a new macOS Backdoor named SpectralBlur linked to North Korea Merck settles with insurers regarding a $1.4

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Digital Shadows

JUNE 7, 2021

It’s been a pretty big year so far for cryptocurrency. Cryptocurrencies’ current total market cap sits just above $1.7 The cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase recently launched an IPO, India has reversed a ban on cryptocurrencies, and ransomware groups continue to demand payment in anonymity-based cryptocurrency.

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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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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 11, 2022

Lazarus group uses fake cryptocurrency apps to plant AppleJeus malware. Scams to avoid this festive season. Epic Games introduces safer accounts for kids. "Baby dumped at the gate" post is a Facebook hoax. Watch out for this triple threat PayPal phish. Vehicle Identification Numbers reveal driver data via telematics.

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SecureList

MARCH 29, 2023

However, traditional financial threats – such as banking malware and financial phishing, continue to take up a significant share of such financially-motivated cyberattacks. For instance, malicious spam campaigns targeting organizations grew 10-fold in April 2022, spreading Qbot and Emotet malware.

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Security Affairs

JULY 19, 2020

The social media giant Twitter confirmed that hackers compromised 130 accounts in last week hack and downloaded data from eight of them. The social media platform Twitter suffered one of the biggest cyberattacks in its history, multiple high-profile accounts were hacked. You send $1,000, I send you back $2,000.”.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2021

According to the 2020 Internet Crime Report , the top three crimes reported by victims in 2020 were phishing scams, non-payment/non-delivery scams, and extortion. The novelty this year is represented by scams exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic. Notably, 2020 saw the emergence of scams exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

Losses continue to mount, and we’re currently facing a scam racking up domestic and international losses of $43 billion. The rise of cryptocurrency in BEC fraud. As with so many forms of online criminal activity, law enforcement is noticing an increase in cryptocurrency use. 6 tips to avoid BEC scams.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The US DoJ charged the suspected Twitter hacker ‘PlugWalkJoe’ with the theft of $784,000 worth of cryptocurrency using SIM swap attacks. Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts.

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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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Malwarebytes

MAY 9, 2022

Over 50 countries sign the “Declaration for the Future of the Internet” Watch out for these 3 small business cybersecurity mistakes.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 8, 2022

Back in March, popular NFT battler Axie Infinity lay at the heart of a huge cryptocurrency theft inflicted on the Ronin network. Scams originating from LinkedIn accounts are popular at the moment. One individual is all it took to empty out a big slice of cryptocurrency funds.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Unlike common stealers, this malware gathered data that can be used to identify the victims, such as browsing histories, social networking account IDs and Wi-Fi networks. Cryptocurrency targeted attacks. More cryptocurrency-related threats: fake hardware wallets, smart contract attacks, DeFi hacks, and more.

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

SpyEye, developed in 2009 and described as a “bank Trojan with a form grabbing capability”, surged from the eighth most common banking malware tool with a 3.4% Emotet (9.3%), described by Europol as “the world’s most dangerous malware”, underwent a drop of five percentage points between 2020 and 2021.This

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

The mobile malware Trojan-Ransom.AndroidOS.Agent.aq Last year was notable for both malware and adware, the two very close in terms of capabilities. Interestingly enough, the share of adware attacks increased in relation to mobile malware in general. They typically work with malware developers to achieve this.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Cryptocurrency prices were dropping from the end of 2021 and throughout the first half of 2022. From advanced APT campaigns targeting crypto organizations (BlueNoroff, NaiveCopy, etc) to various types of hastily made crypto scams, we observe threat actors diversifying their malicious activity against crypto investors — and not only them.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach. The flash scam netted the perpetrators more than $100,000 in the ensuing hours.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 8, 2023

We previously covered attacks on both consumers and businesses via online searches for popular brands leading to scams or malware. Digital assets such as cryptocurrencies or NFTs are highly coveted by threat actors due to the high gains that can be made, even via a simple phishing attack. Indicators of compromise looksrare-org[.]info

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Security Through Education

DECEMBER 5, 2023

These emails contained malicious links or attachments that, when clicked, could infect a victim’s device with malware or steal sensitive information. The pandemic also saw a surge in employment scams, bad actors posing as companies offering remote work, only to run off with sensitive information from hopeful applicants.

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