Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 3, 2024

While hard to measure precisely, tech support scams accounted for $924M, according to the FBI’s 2023 Internet Crime Report. We’ve identified specific advertiser accounts that make up the bulk of fraudulent ads we have reported to Google this past year.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Accounting software QuickBooks , by Intuit, is a popular target for India-based scammers, only rivaled for top spot by the classic Microsoft tech support scams. Fake QuickBooks download When searching for ‘ quickbooks download ‘ on Google, we see a sponsored result appear at the top.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 2, 2020

For at least the third time in its existence, OGUsers — a forum overrun with people looking to buy, sell and trade access to compromised social media accounts — has been hacked. An offer by the apparent hackers of OGUsers, offering to remove account information from the eventual database leak in exchange for payment.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Both scams targeted individual users only. The link directed users to a phishing site offering to download Mamont for Android ( 12936056e8895e6a662731c798b27333 ). We reported the scam accounts and channels to Telegram, but the messaging service had done nothing to block them at the time of writing this.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

These malware scams lure individuals with fake conference invitations designed to mimic legitimate meeting requests and exploit users’ trust. By pasting the code into the Windows Command Prompt, you unknowingly execute commands that download malicious software onto your system.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Brands, particularly major retailers like those analyzed, invest significantly in protecting themselves and their customers from scams and cyberattacks, and often step up those measures for the holiday period. This makes it easier to spot and shut down fake accounts and copycat websites.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 30, 2025

The idea is that people—you, me, everyone—should just pause for nine seconds and think more about the link they are planning to click on, the file they are planning to download, or whatever it is they are planning to share. The three-part suspicion, cognition, and automaticity model (SCAM) is one way to think about this.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 3, 2025

If interested, the victim will receive a download link and a password for the archive containing the promised installer. The archives are offered for download on various locations like Dropbox, Catbox, and often on the Discord content delivery network (CDN), by using compromised accounts which add extra credibility. fr leyamor[.]com

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

One of the most expensive aspects of any cybercriminal operation is the time and effort it takes to constantly create large numbers of new throwaway email accounts. “You upload 1 mailbox of a certain domain, discuss percentage with our technical support (it depends on the liquidity of the domain and the number of downloaded emails).”

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2025

The FBI warns of a significant increase in scams involving free online document converters to infect users with malware. “The FBI Denver Field Office is warning that agents are increasingly seeing a scam involving free online document converter tools, and we want to encourage victims to report instances of this scam.”

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 18, 2025

Text scams alone cost US citizens at least $470 million in 2024, according to new data from the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC). Because many scams go unreported, though, this dollar amount might be considerably more. Top 5 text scams While scams reach us in many ways, the FTC focused on text scams in their report.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 9, 2025

Unfortunately, people getting scammed online is a frequent event. It really can happen to anyone, so there’s no need to feel embarrassed if you have been scammed. So here are some things you can do if you’ve been scammed. This warns lenders to verify your identity before opening new accounts.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 28, 2025

” To avoid detection, the group constantly rotates the domain used in the ads and creates new ads every day, while using both compromised and newly created accounts. How to avoid fake AI tool scams The researchers stated: The temptation to try the latest AI tool can lead to anyone becoming a victim. Be vigilant.

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Here are 50 ways to avoid getting scammed on Black Friday — and beyond. Credit cards offer markedly better fraud protections than debit cards , which connect directly to your bank account. Virtual credit cards similarly allow online shoppers to mask their financial accounts. Vary login credentials across accounts.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 10, 2025

Confusingly, even legitimate businesses now lean on outreach tactics that have long been favored by online scammers—asking people to scan QR codes, download mobile apps, and trade direct messages with, essentially, strangers. As shared by one scam victim writing about their experience: “I felt like I was in a horror movie.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 14, 2025

The feature uses on-device AI to flag potentially fraudulent messages before users interact with them, helping stop scams in real time. According to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Americans lost $470 million to text scams in 2024. Poor grammar (a common giveaway in phishing scams). And its not the only recent safety step.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 5, 2025

Tasks scam are surging, with a year over year increase of 400%. Invitation to a Telegram conversation The Telegram invitation was a bit more limited (European and American female users only) but extended to a larger group of 150 accounts on X. With that phone in hand, I set up a Gmail account and installed WhatsApp.

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eSecurity Planet

MAY 11, 2025

Technical support consultant using programming to upgrade artificial intelligence simulation model As AI tools boom in popularity, cyberthieves are exploiting the excitement with fake AI video editing platforms that lure users into downloading malware. One post alone racked up over 62,000 views, showing how wide the scam has spread.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 29, 2021

Happily, identifying and tracking these fake reviewer accounts is often the easiest way to spot scams. Comments on the fake Microsoft Authenticator browser extension show the reviews for these applications are either positive or very negative — basically calling it out as a scam. Image: chrome-stats.com.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2025

But in the background, their system has hidden malware in the file the victim has downloaded, which is capable of gathering information from the affected device such as: Personal identifying information (PII) including Social Security Numbers (SSN). Work with them to take the necessary steps to protect your identity and your accounts.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Be wary of romance scams "People can be vulnerable on February 14th," said Dave Machin , Partner at The Berkeley Partnership. "If But Machin warns: "Clicking on a seemingly innocent link within an e-card can lead to downloading malware or being redirected to a phishing website designed to capture personal or company details."

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Security Affairs

MAY 17, 2025

officials to build trust and access personal accounts. Threat actors send malicious links posing as messaging platform invites to access officials’ accounts, then exploit contacts to impersonate and extract data or funds. Avoid clicking links or downloading files from unverified sources.

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Graham Cluley

MAY 28, 2025

How come Cambodia has become the world's hotspot for scam call centres? And can a WhatsApp image really drain your bank account with a single download, or is it just a load of hacker hokum? Why is a cute Star Wars fan website now redirecting to the CIA?

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

Employees of these companies were tricked into clicking malicious attachments and links and filling in their email account login information on fake sites. With our law enforcement partners, we will continue to aggressively investigate, pursue, and hold accountable the crooks who perpetrate frauds online, wherever they are.”

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2025

A campaign named PoisonSeed uses stolen CRM and bulk email credentials to send crypto seed scams, aiming to empty victims’ digital wallets. ” The PoisonSeed campaign targets both crypto and non-crypto entities, exploiting compromised CRM and bulk email accounts. ” reads the report published by Silent Push.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 13, 2025

Besides spending way too much time on the platform, children run the risk of getting exposed to inappropriate content, online predators, cyberbullying, and scams. Scammers often promise free Robux (the virtual currency used on the platform) or other benefits to trick children into sharing personal information or downloading malware.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 9, 2025

accounts to hide their origins. citizen, hosting company laptops at his home, unauthorized software installation to facilitate access, and laundering payments for the remote work through accounts linked to North Korean and Chinese individuals. accounts include accounts associated with North Korean and Chinese actors.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 1, 2025

Phishing In phishing scams, cybercriminals trick people and businesses into handing over sensitive information like credit card numbers or login details for vital online accounts. Lured in by similar color schemes, company logos, and familiar layouts, victims log in to their account by entering their username and password.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

In May, 2024, the FBI warned about the increasing threat of cybercriminals using Artificial Intelligence (AI) in their scams. These often start with a call to users, claiming their Gmail account has been compromised. How to avoid AI Gmail phishing Never click on links or download files from unexpected emails or messages.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 4, 2024

In a pig butchering scam, fake trading apps first available on Google and Apple apps stores and later on phishing download sites lured victims into depositing money into fraudulent accounts, which was then stolen, according to a report from Group-IB.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 20, 2025

In particular, we have previously detailed how Google advertiser accounts can be hijacked to create new malicious ads and perpetuate a vicious cycle leading to more compromised accounts. Each ad uses a unique domain name which does a redirect to more static domains dedicated to the fake Semrush and Google account login pages.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2024

Google continues to struggle with cybercriminals running malicious ads on its search platform to trick people into downloading booby-trapped copies of popular free software applications. And by most accounts, the threat from bad ads leading to backdoored software has subsided significantly compared to a year ago.

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Hot for Security

JANUARY 29, 2021

The company believes the incident occurred on January 4, 2021, after threat actors managed to trick employees into accessing and downloading malicious software on some retail-store computers. “A few employees in retail stores were successfully scammed by unauthorized individuals and downloaded software onto a store computer.”

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 15, 2025

A type of crypto scam that we reported about in 2024 has ported over to a new platform and changed tacticsa bit. Where the old scams mostly reached me on WhatsApp, the same group of scammers is now using Direct Messages on X. Oops, I’m not Sean “Sean, your financial management account has been opened. com bjscx[].com

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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. Doug then messaged the Mr. Lee account on Telegram, who said there was some kind of technology issue with the video platform, and that their IT people suggested using a different meeting link. ” Image: SlowMist.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

These individuals said they were only customers of the person who had access to Twitter’s internal employee tools, and were not responsible for the actual intrusion or bitcoin scams that took place that day. ever so anxious” said he was 19 and lived in the south of England with his mother. They would take a cut from each transaction.”

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

The actual sender addresses are compromised accounts from all over the world. The blob.core.windows.net subdomains are unique identifiers for Azure Blob Storage accounts. They follow this format: <storageaccountname> blob.core.windows.net Where <storageaccountname> is the name of the specific Azure Storage account.

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