SecureWorld News

AUGUST 25, 2023

While it is a time of celebration, the weekend also marks an uptick in online scams and phishing attacks. Whether it's a too-good-to-be-true discount on a vacation package, a counterfeit online store, or a phony super sale campaign, these scams aim to compromise sensitive data and steal your money.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Operators behind the Squid Game cryptocurrency have exit scam making off with an estimated $2.1 Operators behind the Squid Game cryptocurrency have exit scam making off with an estimated $2.1 Gizmodo, which first reported the news , initially warned of a potential scam because investors were not allowed to sell the purchased crypto.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 8, 2023

WormGPT, a private new chatbot service advertised as a way to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to help write malicious software without all the pesky prohibitions on such activity enforced by ChatGPT and Google Bard, has started adding restrictions on how the service can be used.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 16, 2019

In the wake of the New Zealand mosque shooting, the CISA recommends users to remain vigilant on possible scams and malware attacks. In the wake of the New Zealand mosque shooting, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) recommends users to remain vigilant on possible scams and malware attacks.

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Webroot

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Cybercrime isn’t just a futuristic Hollywood plotline, it’s a real threat that targets everyone—from wide-eyed kids to seasoned adults and wise grandparents. Identifying scams Before we dive headfirst into the cyber safety tips, let’s equip ourselves with the ultimate weapon: knowledge. And guess what?

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Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2023

FraudGPT is another cybercrime generative artificial intelligence (AI) tool that is advertised in the hacking underground. The author claims that FraudGPT can develop undetectable malware and find vulnerabilities in targeted platforms.

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 29, 2022

Group-IB cybersecurity researchers recently identified several Russian-speaking cybercrime groups offering infostealing malware-as-a-service (MaaS), resulting in the theft of more than 50 million passwords thus far. Millions in Cybercrime Profit. The malware is generally offered as a service for between $150 and $200 a month.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 20, 2021

A federal judge in Connecticut today handed down a sentence of time served to spam kingpin Peter “Severa” Levashov , a prolific purveyor of malicious and junk email, and the creator of malware strains that infected millions of Microsoft computers globally. Severa was a moderator on the Russian spam community Spamdot[.]biz.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2020

A cybercrime gang focused on Business Email Compromise (BEC) has started using coronavirus-themed scam emails in its attacks. The researchers received a coronavirus-themed scam email that attempted to trick victims into using a different bank account for the payment due to the COVID-19 outbreak. A change of the bank account).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Apple created post-quantum cryptographic protocol PQ3 for iMessage Russian hacker is set to face trial for the hack of a local power grid Microsoft released red teaming tool PyRIT for Generative AI CISA orders federal agencies to fix ConnectWise ScreenConnect bug in a week FTC charged Avast with selling users’ browsing data to advertising companies (..)

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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. “The 911[.]re in the British Virgin Islands.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

The selection of affiliates is a crucial process in the success of the cybercrime scheme, for this reason, REvil operators personally select each people they want to include in their program. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2020

February 1, 2020 – Crooks start exploiting Coronavirus as bait to spread malware. Security researchers warn of campaigns aimed at spreading malware that exploits media attention on the COVID-19 epidemic. Researchers from Cybaze Yoroi have spotted a new campaign exploiting the interest in COVID-19 evolution to spread malware.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2020

New York Attorney General asks domain registrars, including GoDaddy, and Namecheap, to crack down on coronavirus scam sites. The Coronavirus-themed attacks continue to increase, experts warn of thousands of COVID-19 scam and malware sites are being created every day. — NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) March 20, 2020.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The FBI’s Internal Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report , a document that outlines cybercrime trends over the past year. The figure that most of all capture our attention is that victims of cybercrime activities lost $3.5 BEC scams resulted in more than $1.7 Billion in 2019.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The cybercrime gang announced that it will no longer leak data of new companies infected with their ransomware. The gang was the first to introduce a double-extortion model in the cybercrime landscape at the end of 2019. All the links to out project, using of our brand, our work methods should be considered to be a scam.

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Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2019

Technical details of the attack were shared by Aleksejs Kuprins , malware analyst at the CSIS Group. The expert pointed out that the app doesn’t include any malicious code, it could be considered a tool used by crooks for a scam. “ ~ Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2020

Crooks are exploiting the popularity of the Star Wars saga to monetize their efforts, experts warn of online streaming sites delivering malware. Cybercriminals leverage popular movies like Star Wars to lure users into downloading malware to watch exclusive scenes or the full movie. Kaspersky experts. “It Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 22, 2020

The COVID19-themed attacks continue to increase, experts warn of thousands of COVID-19 scam and malware sites are being created every day. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2020

In many ways, the COVID-19 pandemic has been a boon to cybercriminals: With unprecedented numbers of people working from home and anxious for news about the virus outbreak, it’s hard to imagine a more target-rich environment for phishers, scammers and malware purveyors. ” Alex Holden , founder and CTO of Hold Security , agreed.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2023

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2020

The Coronavirus-themed attacks continue to increase, experts warn of thousands of COVID-19 scam and malware sites are being created every day. The sites are employed in a broad range of attacks, including phishing attacks, frauds, and malware-based attacks. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 11, 2021

As a freelancer in any industry, you are likely more susceptible to hackers and cybercrime than many other professions. Part of that is being aware of common scams that could spell big trouble. Another common scam that you should be aware of has little to do with who you work with, but instead, where you do your work.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 5, 2018

Security experts from Symantec are warning of tech support scams abusing Call Optimization Services to insert phone numbers. Crooks are improving their tech support scams by using Call Optimization Services that are commonly used in legitimate call center operations to perform: Tracking the source of inbound calls.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2020

Group-IB discovered thousands of personal records of users from multiple countries exposed in a targeted multi-stage bitcoin scam. The new scheme is similar to the “Bitcoin Evolution” scam, that Group-IB reported on in Feb. SecurityAffairs – hacking, bitcoin scam). Pierluigi Paganini.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 14, 2021

The agenda of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is to pull down investment-related scams from various social media platforms and Google search engines. Later all such funds end up in the pockets of bad guys who indulge in various crimes such as human trafficking, malware spread, drug smuggling, and extortion. “If

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Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

It’s a good idea to prepare for cybercrime, and whenever possible avoid becoming a victim of it. None of this is to suggest that falling prey to holiday cybercrime is unavoidable or that the potential damage can’t be mitigated, but it is important to educate yourself, friends and family to safeguard the holiday season.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The modus operandi of these threat actors involves deceiving employees through sophisticated scams and deceptive online advertisements. In this post, we explore a particular phishing scam targeting corporate users via the AnyDesk remote software and how ThreatDown can prevent the misuse of such programs by cybercriminals.

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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'? This is a lot of demand without us even starting to advertise to the U.S. The Cyber Helpline is a U.K.-registered

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

According to a study conducted by CheckPoint Security, a malware landscape was characterized by some interesting changed in this first part of 2017. The Kelihos botnet climbed to the top position, while the Conficker worm dropped to fourth on the chart of malware. Security Affairs – Kelihos, malware ).

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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.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 29, 2021

You’ve likely heard the benefits of using a VPN: You can watch TV shows restricted to certain countries, you can encrypt your web traffic on public WiFi networks, and, importantly, you can obscure your Internet activity from your Internet Service Provider, which may use that activity for advertising.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 25, 2020

. “Since January, we have seen an increase of 30,000% in phishing, malicious websites, and malware targeting remote users—all related to COVID-19. Zscaler also observed Coronavirus-themed attacks across several different threat categories, including the infamous Nigerian 419 scam. How many did we see in March?

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eSecurity Planet

JANUARY 5, 2023

Wiper Malware, Critical Infrastructure Threats Unleashed by War. Russia’s invasion of Ukraine unleashed a concurrent cyberwar, with wiper malware and threats to critical infrastructure just two of the consequences that have spread to other nations. 2022 was notable for the spread of ransomware as a service (RaaS).

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Security Affairs

MARCH 17, 2019

Crooks use The Pirate Bay to spread PirateMatryoshka malware via reputed seeders. Modular Cryptojacking malware uses worm abilities to spread. DMSniff POS Malware has flown under the radar for at least four years. GlitchPOS PoS Malware appears in the cybercrime underground. 39% of all existing Counter-Strike 1.6

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

How does the scam work? Yes, there’s a bit of data grabbing alongside the malware slinging. Any scam which involves images has a good chance of falling back on scr files. Krita previously reported this as ransomware , and as you can see, the mails are still going strong: It's a scam. Why an scr file? See [link].

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 12, 2020

The security firms have collected more than 125,000 TrickBot malware samples and mapped the command and control infrastructure. Microsoft took action against the Trickbot botnet, disrupting one of the world’s most persistent malware operations. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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