SecureWorld News

MAY 22, 2023

More than 450 workers at the United States Postal Service (USPS) lost more than $1 million in a direct deposit scam that left postal workers without pay, angry at the USPS for not heeding warnings of the scheme, and the agency scrambling to figure out exactly what happened. And this is, sadly, an example of why both of those are so critical."

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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. Prosecutors say Noah Michael Urban of Palm Coast, Fla., Twilio disclosed in Aug. According to an Aug.

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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.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

The subject of the emails reads “Important Notification About Your Account” in an attempt to urge recipients to open it. “Upon opening the attachment, victims were greeted with a message announcing additional verification requirements for the associated account. ” reads the analysis published by the Armorblox.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

“According to this actor, he had originally intended to send his targets—all senior-level executives—phishing emails to compromise their accounts, but after that was unsuccessful, he pivoted to this ransomware pretext,” Hassold wrote. billion in 2020. Image: FBI. Open our letter at your email. ” Image: Sophos.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 2, 2024

” The data came to light a few weeks ago when it was put up for sale on an online cybercrime forum, but the seller, a hacker calling themselves “MajorNelson”, claimed it had been stolen from AT&T three years prior. million current AT&T account holders and approximately 65.4 million former account holders.

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Herjavec Group

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

More than 90 percent of cyberattacks are initiated by phishing scams. There will be all sorts of Black Friday scams with the most clever subjects coming at us. Even amateur hackers can snoop on public Wi-Fi and pick up your email and other account login IDs and passwords. Change all of your passwords.

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2023

Having policies and procedures to secure social media accounts and minimise the potential for incidents can help. Recently, a client with several different social media accounts and a large team of people working on them approached BH Consulting to review its security and policies around them. More than 4.7

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2024

surfaces in the threat landscape Pokemon Company resets some users’ passwords Ukraine cyber police arrested crooks selling 100 million compromised accounts New AcidPour wiper targets Linux x86 devices. Is it a Russia’s weapon? Players hacked during the matches of Apex Legends Global Series.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Notably, per additional context acquired from the actor, the majority of exposed accounts on the Dark Web didn’t have 2FA enabled. Some users may not have changed their password, or this process might still be ongoing. Handling remediation, especially for a large customer base, is complex and may not be instantly executed.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Cyber threats have evolved from poorly-written scam emails to state-sponsored attacks, ransomware onslaughts, and deepfake technologies. emphasized collective action and individual accountability. Instead of relying solely on traditional passwords, consider passwordless methods for added security. Protect IT."

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2024

Dellone says the crooks then used his phone number to break into his account at Coinbase and siphon roughly $100,000 worth of cryptocurrencies. 2023 story here about how experts now believe it’s likely hackers are cracking open some of the password vaults stolen in the 2022 data breach at LastPass. federal court.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 21, 2022

Threat intelligence firm Resecurity details how crooks are delivering IRS tax scams and phishing attacks posing as government vendors. The script intercepts entered credentials and pass them via POST request: HTTP POST transmits login and password to script deployed on jbdelmarket[.]com: SecurityAffairs – hacking, IRS tax scam).

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Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Elderly Americans are facing a drastic increase in cybercrime, identity theft and financial abuse. billion in cybercrime losses to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) – a 74% increase from the previous year. Many seniors are less technologically savvy than younger generations, making them more vulnerable to cybercrime.

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Security Through Education

JANUARY 18, 2023

The truth is technology has grown at an exponential rate and so has cybercrime. Cybercrime doesn’t just affect big businesses and national governments. Impersonation Scams. Although BEC attacks may be targeted at business, they can also be used to scam individual people. What You Can Do. Update your software.

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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.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

MARCH 3, 2023

This could spell trouble, as hackers can easily hijack an account to publish scam related campaigns, hate speech, biased political statements and what not. Third is the news related to cybercrime and might interest the male folks! Third is the news related to cybercrime and might interest the male folks!

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Money Transfer Scam – Scammers hack the victims’s email accounts, monitor conversations between the buyers and title agents, send instructions on where to wire the money. The con in question is a money transfer scam with all the likeness of a typical transaction. No security is 100 percent reliable.

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McAfee

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

According to research from the FBI and FTC, cybercrimes against older adults cost more than $650 million in losses each year. On top of that, older adults tend to have more significant financial funds like retirement accounts, making them an ideal target for cybercriminals. . Talk About the Latest Online Scams .

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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. of attacks.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The Apollon market, one of the largest marketplaces, is likely exit scamming after the administrators have locked vendors’ accounts. The Apollon market , one of the darknet’s largest marketplaces, is likely exit scamming, vendors and customers reported suspicious behavior of its administrators.

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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. billion on organizations.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Cybercriminals know this, which is why phishing attacks account for more than 80% of reported security incidents and why 54% of companies say their data breaches were caused by “negligent employees. ”. Considering the many ways cybercriminals target employees and the costs of cybercrime to employers, it’s a wise investment.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

The underground cybercrime forums are now awash in pleas from people who are desperately seeking a new supplier of abundant, cheap, and reliably clean proxies to restart their businesses. According to Constella Intelligence [currently an advertiser on KrebsOnSecurity], Oleg used the same password from his iboss32@ro.ru

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 14, 2021

source: Wales Online) The coming AI hackers (Source: Harvard Business Review) Hackers steal 26m account logins for Apple, Amazon, Facebook, Netflix and more (Source: Metro) This phishing email is pushing password-stealing malware to Windows PCs (Source: ZDNet) Researchers discover Stem Audio smart speaker eavesdropping risk (Source: The Daily Swig).

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SecureWorld News

JULY 19, 2022

The FBI asks that if any financial institutions or investors believe they have been defrauded through a scam like this to contact the FBI via the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) or their local FBI field office. Protect yourself against crypto scams. A total of 244 victims have been identified, with approximately $42.7

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 27, 2021

One of the major issues surrounds keeping remote workers protected against cybercrime. It is important that your VPN should use multi-factor authentication (MFA) rather than just usernames and passwords. For example, being aware of scams such as business email compromise (BEC) is more important than ever before.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 29, 2022

It weaves into several forms of cybercrime, such as phishing , fake customer support agents , fake deliveries, and even bogus charity donations. One of the most interesting choices fraudsters make is to run a scam that specifically draws the victim’s attention to fraudulent activity, real or otherwise. Distraction and subterfuge.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

In May 2015, KrebsOnSecurity briefly profiled “ The Manipulaters ,” the name chosen by a prolific cybercrime group based in Pakistan that was very publicly selling spam tools and a range of services for crafting, hosting and deploying malicious email. One of several current Fudtools sites run by The Manipulaters. Bilal Waddaich).

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2021

Phishing attacks account for more than 80% of reported security incidents. The goal is to either score an executive password that will provide them with easy entry into business systems and data or facilitate BEC fraud – 72% of whaling attacks impersonate a trusted source. Phishing doesn’t discriminate. Business Email Compromise.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Sadly, one of the people arrested was also a member of the Dutch Institute for Vulnerability Disclosure (DIVD), a group of volunteer cybercrime fighters. The cybercrime unit behind the arrests also warned that criminals are getting better at refining this kind of stolen data and finding innovative uses for it. Change your password.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

These services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. su between 2016 and 2019. ”

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

One of the most common techniques used to exploit web users is the phishing scam. In 2003, customers with eBay and PayPal were hit with phishing emails requesting them to update account information, leading customers to give out log-in information. What is Phishing? How Does Phishing Work? Spear Phishing. Clone Phishing.

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Identity IQ

DECEMBER 22, 2021

The risk of identity theft is a concept that most of us are probably familiar with given the rise of cybercrime and data breaches. Personal information, like banking account numbers, also can be exposed. Log into the breached account and change your password. Change your password as soon as possible. IdentityIQ.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 3, 2023

The Cyber Helpline was created to fill the gap in support for victims and survivors of cybercrime and online harm. What (if any) is the difference between 'cybersecurity threats' and the term 'cybercrime'? The Cyber Helpline is a U.K.-registered Why was The Cyber Helpline created? million in the U.S. Over the past five years, many U.S.-based

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SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

Once a URL is entered, the bot will generate several scam links targeting users of the service. We filled in the login and password fields in the screenshot below. Newbies get a taste of what phishing tools can do, pull off their first scam and wish for more, which is when they will be offered paid content.

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