Webroot

MARCH 3, 2025

The event is sponsored by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), and other participating agencies include the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), AARP , and the Better Business Bureau (BBB). Beware before you share Phishing scams Avoid clicking on malicious links in emails and social media.

Consumer Protection

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Deepfakes are media content—such as videos, images, or audio—created using GAI to realistically manipulate faces, voices, or even entire events. Attackers can use them to fabricate events, impersonate influential figures, or create scenarios that manipulate public opinion.

Artificial Intelligence

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

JULY 17, 2025

Sea, Sun… and Scams? Yes, summer vibes and scams don’t mix well. Activate MFA Everywhere; It’s Your Digital Sunscreen Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) is like sunscreen for your online accounts. Make it a habit to enable MFA on all your important accounts: email, social media, banking, and shopping sites.

Scams

SecureList

JANUARY 30, 2025

The threat actor then exploits this data to hijack personal messaging accounts, impersonate account owners to request money transfers from the victims’ contacts, and compromise accounts with other services. Tria Stealer exfiltrates the data by sending it to various Telegram bots using the Telegram API for communication.

Accountability

Hacker's King

OCTOBER 26, 2024

Activities during this week include engaging workshops, informative webinars, and community events, all designed to empower individuals with the knowledge and skills necessary to navigate today’s cyber threats effectively. Change them regularly and avoid reusing passwords across different accounts.

Cybersecurity

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Amini Pedram Amini , Chief Scientist, Opswat The sophistication and abuse of AI are escalating as costs drop, driving a surge in ML-assisted scams and attacks on physical devices. To mitigate risks, organizations must enforce Zero-Trust principles, limit AI access to privileged accounts, and sanitize AI prompts.

Risk

Digital Shadows

JANUARY 27, 2025

Streamlined RaaS Operations: The ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) ecosystem has become more efficient, with affiliates adopting new, more specialized strategies like help-desk scams to accelerate and refine their attacks. Zabbix, an open-source IT monitoring tool, oversees networks and servers.

Scams

SecureList

JUNE 23, 2025

During our research, we stumbled upon a significant number of pages offering for download various scam iOS apps in the PWA (progressive web app) format. While digging into the traffic sources, we uncovered ads for various scams and Ponzi schemes on popular platforms. Another activity cluster? The apps requested access to read storage.

Spyware

BH Consulting

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

But a hallmark of the event since it was first held in 2009 is visiting speakers who aren’t afraid to challenge popular narratives. How AI assists financial fraud One area where AI can be effective in helping criminals is in creating scams using impersonation. In reality, many of them are predictable. “We

Artificial Intelligence

Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2025

Next, a pusher:subscribe message shows the client requesting to listen for events on a specific channel identified by a unique session ID, indicating a desire to receive real-time updates for that session. Browser extensions such as Malwarebytes Browser Guard will block ads but also the scams or malware sites associated with these schemes.

Phishing

SecureWorld News

JULY 9, 2025

State Department employees and reported by The Washington Post , the impersonator used a Signal account with the display name "Marco.Rubio@state.gov," reaching out to diplomats and high-ranking government officials. The dawning era of AI-enabled impersonation attacks According to a cable sent by Rubio's office to U.S.

Government

Malwarebytes

JUNE 27, 2025

Check your account login history. Familiarize yourself with the normal procedure, so uncommon events will be red flags. If you’ve clicked a link like this: Clear your browser cache and cookies. Enable 2FA if you haven’t already. Run a full antivirus/malware scan. Remember: the absence of obvious malware doesn’t mean the attempt failed.

Phishing

Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Key Points Phishing incidents rose during the reporting period (August 1 to October 31, 2024), accounting for 46% of all customer incidents. Cloud services alerts increased by 20% due to rising cloud account usage, while malicious file alerts in phishing attacks remain high, exploiting users’ tendencies to open files.

Cyber Attacks

Trend Micro

JUNE 26, 2025

Completion rates can account for employees’ knowledge. Track employee behaviour change based on metrics like the overall risk of account compromise and the number of accounts with weak authentication. Set up automated workflows to deploy training to employees based on selected risk events and conditions. Under Attack?

Security Awareness

BH Consulting

MAY 28, 2025

When employees know how to protect data and are shown how to spot probable scams, it goes a long way to preventing security incidents and stopping confidential or sensitive information from falling into the wrong hands. However, branding compliance as ethics weakens accountability, she argued. Ethics and AI: just a mirage?

Scams

Digital Shadows

MARCH 12, 2025

These fake accounts promote fraudulent offers like free event tickets or gambling top-ups, exploiting user trust and luring victims into phishing scams. While such schemes damage brand reputation and erode customer trust, they also pave the way for secondary attacks, such as business email compromise (BEC).

Cyber threats

Trend Micro

JUNE 10, 2025

Each team can independently sign off on an image, ensuring accountability and reducing deployment risk. Visibility & Auditability Gain full visibility into verification events with logs, metrics, and alerts to support compliance audits and incident investigation. Under Attack?

Cyber Risk

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2025

In October 2024, the security firm Silent Push published a lengthy analysis of how Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure were providing services to Funnull, a two-year-old Chinese content delivery network that hosts a wide variety of fake trading apps, pig butchering scams , gambling websites, and retail phishing pages.

Accountability

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

At the end of 2023, malicious hackers discovered that many companies had uploaded huge volumes of sensitive customer data to Snowflake accounts that were protected with nothing more than a username and password (no multi-factor authentication required). “You don’t think we don’t have plans in the event of an arrest?

DDOS

Trend Micro

JULY 2, 2025

More generally, organisations should consider updating security strategy to account for the elevated threat from AI-powered attacks. Under Attack? 6 Alerts Back Unread All Inside the criminal mind: Trend’s deep dive into cybercrime.

Cyber Risk

Security Boulevard

JUNE 18, 2025

Korea IT Worker Scam Guardrails Breached: The New Reality of GenAI-Driven Attacks OAuth 2.0 Podcast TechstrongTV - Twitch Library Related Sites Techstrong Group Cloud Native Now DevOps.com Security Boulevard Techstrong Research Techstrong TV Techstrong.tv Moves to Collect $7.74 Million Tied to N. Moves to Collect $7.74 Million Tied to N.

Social Engineering

SecureList

OCTOBER 4, 2024

The attackers uploaded numerous videos in English from multiple accounts which were presumably stolen. Malicious directory in Explorer After installing all the necessary files, the implant establishes persistence using WMI by creating filters which are activated by common events — common enough to guarantee filter activation.

Scams

Malwarebytes

MAY 3, 2022

A real world scam which sucks the fun out of craft fairs has caused nothing but stress for victims. Getting these products in front of real world audiences at an event is sure to boost sales. Soon after paying, the organiser vanishes and you realise you’re £60 to £75 out of pocket for a three day event. Targeting the visitors.

Scams

Krebs on Security

MAY 30, 2023

The attacker then loads the stolen token into their own browser session and (usually late at night after the admins are asleep) posts an announcement in the targeted Discord about an exclusive “airdrop,” “NFT mint event” or some other potential money making opportunity for the Discord members.

Hacking

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.

Accountability

We Live Security

JULY 9, 2024

Scammers gonna scam scam scam, so before hunting for your tickets to a Taylor Swift gig or other in-demand events, learn how to stop fraudsters from leaving a blank space in your bank account

Scams

Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2024

Ticket scams are very common and apparently hard to stop. With a ticket scam, you pay for a ticket and you either don’t receive anything or what you get doesn’t get you into the venue. m) in ticket scams ahead of the UK leg of Taylor Swift’s Eras tour. Roughly 90% of these scams were said to have started on Facebook.

Scams

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2022

The fabricated LinkedIn identities — which pair AI-generated profile photos with text lifted from legitimate accounts — are creating major headaches for corporate HR departments and for those managing invite-only LinkedIn groups. Another “swarm” of LinkedIn bot accounts flagged by Taylor’s group.

Accountability

Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

A disaster is alluded to, but the disaster in question is down to slow websites for surfers, and faulty data transmission at the event itself. It was also the first major Olympics event where organizers braced for hacking related impact. Nothing happened at the 2000 games, and it seems nothing happened at any earlier events either.

Scams

Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In 2023, the public primarily confronted two varieties of online scams: the technical and the topical. Technical scams abuse legitimate aspects of modern internet infrastructure to lead users to illegitimate or compromised sites. Topical scams, on the other hand, are simpler. OBN Brandon’s trick is almost always the same.

Scams

Hacker Combat

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Google has reported that it disrupted the phishing attacks where threat actors had tried to hijack various YouTube accounts using cookie theft malware. The hijacker’s intent was to use those accounts to promote different crypto-currency scams. . Such accounts have a buying price ranging from $3 to $4,000. . and email.cz.

Accountability

Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

billion, or roughly half, of the total losses in 2019 were attributed to generic email account compromise (EAC) complaints. Taking into account unknowables, we’re talking about a ballpark cost of roughly $75,000 per BEC-related complaint. That is exponentially more expensive than other cyber events.

Scams

SecureList

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There are two main types of online fraud aimed at stealing user data and money: phishing and scams. The history of scams and phishing. Posing as AOL employees, the scammers sent messages asking users to verify their accounts or asking for payment details. Also in the 1990s, the first online scams appeared.

Scams

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.

Scams

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.

Malware

Adam Levin

MARCH 17, 2022

The potential for hacks and scams is limited to the imagination of the person or group performing them. A single compromised account is usually the point of entry for hacking campaigns. Keep employee email accounts up to date. March Madness brackets are a reliable delivery method for hackers to deliver malware.

Cyber threats

Malwarebytes

MARCH 3, 2022

Earlier this week, we spotted a Microsoft sign-in phish that appeared to be taking advantage of the Ukraine crisis in order to scam people. It’s interesting to note that they accept NFTs as “donation” There are no misspellings, which is seen as a classic red flag in scam mails.

Scams