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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. Since then, the same spammers have used this method to advertise more than 100 different crypto investment-themed domains. Over three hours the attack evolved several times.”

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‘Spam Nation’ Villain Vrublevsky Charged With Fraud

Krebs on Security

years in a Russian penal colony for convincing one of his top affiliates to launch a distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attack against a competitor that shut down the ticketing system for the state-owned Aeroflot airline. Festi also was the botnet used in the DDoS attack that sent Vrubelvsky to prison for two years in 2013.

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Who and What is Behind the Malware Proxy Service SocksEscort?

Krebs on Security

Researchers this month uncovered a two-year-old Linux-based remote access trojan dubbed AVrecon that enslaves Internet routers into botnet that bilks online advertisers and performs password-spraying attacks. Another domain with the Google Analytics code US-2665744 was sscompany[.]net.

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SSNDOB marketplace shut down by global law enforcement operation

Malwarebytes

DDoS attacks from rivals are common, so several domains working together keeps things ticking over. SSNDOB advertised its services on dark web forums and offered customer support for buyers. As Bleeping Computer notes, this is one tactic to get around attempts to shut down the service.

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Double-Your-Crypto Scams Share Crypto Scam Host

Krebs on Security

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. ” Ark-x2[.]org

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How $100M in Jobless Claims Went to Inmates

Krebs on Security

.” According to ID.me, a major driver of phony jobless claims comes from social engineering, where people have given away personal data in response to romance or sweepstakes scams, or after applying for what they thought was a legitimate work-from-home job. “A lot of this is targeting the elderly,” Hall said. protections.

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