Krebs on Security

APRIL 4, 2024

The disclosure revealed a profitable network of phishing sites that behave and look like the real Privnote, except that any messages containing cryptocurrency addresses will be automatically altered to include a different payment address controlled by the scammers. co showing the site did indeed swap out any cryptocurrency addresses.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 22, 2023

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. The messages said recipients had earned an investment credit at a cryptocurrency trading platform called moonxtrade[.]com. In May 2020, Zipper told another Lolzteam member that quot[.]pw

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

There are dozens of SIM swappers who are now teenage or 20-something millionaires, by virtue of having stolen vast sums of cryptocurrencies from SIM swapping victims. And now many of these same individuals are finding that communities like Telegram can be leveraged to hire physical harassment and intimidation of their rivals and competitors.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2022

Online scams that try to separate the unwary from their cryptocurrency are a dime a dozen, but a great many seemingly disparate crypto scam websites tend to rely on the same dodgy infrastructure providers to remain online in the face of massive fraud and abuse complaints from their erstwhile customers. The ark-x2[.]org ” Ark-x2[.]org

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 27, 2022

Kodex’s first big client was cryptocurrency giant Coinbase , which confirmed their partnership but otherwise declined to comment for this story. A fake EDR service advertised on a hacker forum in 2021. “In a lot of cases with fake EDRs, you can see the same email [address] being used to message different companies for data.

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