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Fake Lawsuit Threat Exposes Privnote Phishing Sites

Krebs on Security

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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Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer

Krebs on Security

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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Russian Reshipping Service ‘SWAT USA Drop’ Exposed

Krebs on Security

The “ drops ” are people who have responded to work-at-home package reshipping jobs advertised on craigslist.com and job search sites. The spreadsheet also included the cryptocurrency account numbers that were to be credited each month with SWAT’s earnings. Services like SWAT are known as “Drops for stuff” on cybercrime forums.

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SSNDOB marketplace shut down by global law enforcement operation

Malwarebytes

SSNDOB advertised its services on dark web forums and offered customer support for buyers. We’ve noted the gradual emergence of Bitcoin ATMs in scams previously; here, cryptocurrency ATMs are more popular as a payment method to SSNDOB than other dubious online services. The Bitcoin boon.

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‘Spam Nation’ Villain Vrublevsky Charged With Fraud

Krebs on Security

Among the escapades recounted in the ChronoPay founder’s diaries are multiple stories involving the self-proclaimed “King of Fraud!” Inferno Pay, a cryptocurrency and payment API allegedly operated by the ChronoPay CEO.

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Service Rents Email Addresses for Account Signups

Krebs on Security

In May, KrebsOnSecurity interviewed a Russian spammer named “ Quotpw “ who was mass-registering accounts on the social media network Mastodon in order to conduct a series of huge spam campaigns advertising scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. com site,” the Trend researchers wrote. Image: Trend Micro.

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Violence-as-a-Service: Brickings, Firebombings & Shootings for Hire

Krebs on Security

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.