Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2024

In January, KrebsOnSecurity told the story of a Canadian man who was falsely charged with larceny and lost his job after becoming the victim of a complex e-commerce scam known as triangulation fraud. In this scam, you receive what you ordered, and the only party left to dispute the transaction is the owner of the stolen payment card.

Scams

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The Russian-speaking Crazy Evil group runs over 10 social media scams, tricking victims into installing StealC, AMOS, and Angel Drainer malware. Since 2021, the Crazy Evil gang has become a major cybercriminal group, using phishing, identity fraud, and malware to steal cryptocurrency. ” reads the report published by Insikt Group.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

And 2025 will be no different, as increasingly sophisticated online hackers seek to take advantage of Valentine's themed email traffic, social media advertisements, or marketing campaigns, and exploit heightened emotions and a desire to connect. Verify charities before donating Scam emails and messages impersonating charities are common.

Scams

SecureWorld News

MARCH 20, 2025

March Madness is here, and while fans are busy filling out brackets and making last-minute bets, cybercriminals are running their own full-court presstargeting unsuspecting fans with phishing scams, fake betting apps, and credential-harvesting schemes. This scenario follows the common phishing tactics: strike at personal interest.

Scams

Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

The threat, dubbed “Phish ‘n Ships” by the researchers, reportedly infected more than 1,000 websites and built 121 fake web stores to trick consumers. SEO poisoning is a technique employed by cybercriminals to manipulate search engine results, making harmful websites or advertisements appear at the top of search results.

Phishing

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

The HeartSender group has sold phishing tools to criminals since 2020, causing over $3 million in U.S. The Saim Raza group run multiple marketplaces that advertised and facilitated the sale of hacking and fraud tools, including malware, phishing kits and email extractors.

Cybercrime

Malwarebytes

MARCH 20, 2025

This blog post was co-authored with Elie Berreby, Senior SEO Strategist Criminals are highly interested in online marketing and advertising tools that they can leverage as part of their ongoing malware campaigns. We would like to stress that we are not referring to any vulnerability or data breach with Semrush or its platform in this post.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2025

A report from the Pakistani media outlet Dawn states that authorities there arrested 21 people alleged to have operated Heartsender, a spam delivery service whose homepage openly advertised phishing kits targeting users of various Internet companies, including Microsoft 365, Yahoo, AOL, Intuit, iCloud and ID.me.

Malware

eSecurity Planet

MAY 11, 2025

How the scam works: Free AI tools that cost you everything The trap begins on Facebook, where well-designed posts and pages promote fake AI services. One post alone racked up over 62,000 views, showing how wide the scam has spread. Fake AI tool names like Dream Machine AI and CapCut AI are commonly used to draw attention.

Malware

SecureWorld News

JULY 17, 2025

Introduction: A high-tech twist on age-old scams Impersonation fraud is not new, but the scale and believability of recent AI-driven schemes pose an unprecedented threat to financial organizations. In 2025, U.S. Figure 1: Projected U.S. What used to require Hollywood-level resources can now be done with off-the-shelf AI tools.

Banking

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

These tools can also answer an endless array of factual questions, much like the separate AI tool Perplexity, which advertises itself not as a search engine, but as the worlds first answer engine. And for malicious users, hackers, and scammers, generative AI has delivered oil-slick efficiency to proven attack methods.

Artificial Intelligence

Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2025

We discovered a new phishing kit targeting payroll and payment platforms that aims to not only steal victims’ credentials but also to commit wire fraud. Clicking on the ad sent employees and employers to a phishing website impersonating Deel. Phishing portal and 2FA The first phishing domain we saw was login-deel[.]app

Phishing

SecureList

JUNE 25, 2025

At the same time, AI-driven attacks are becoming increasingly common, making phishing and malware campaigns easier to prepare and quickly adapt, thus increasing their scale. These programs are designed to display advertisements on infected computers or substitute a promotional website for the default search engine in a browser.

Adware

SecureList

DECEMBER 16, 2024

In 2024, our expert observations indicate that commercial advertising for these cryptors have indeed gained momentum. Not every data breach advertisement on the dark web is the result of a genuinely serious incident. The primary purpose of these tools is to render the code undetectable by security software.

Marketing

Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2025

According to new research from Malwarebytes, 52% of people said they worry about being scammed while traveling, while another 40% admitted that they worry about my kids or family sharing trip details online. Broadly, Malwarebytes found that: 52% of people agreed or strongly agreed that they worry about being scammed while traveling.

Scams

SecureWorld News

JUNE 23, 2025

At the gym, the flyer advertising a free class also has a QR code. These quick scans can become gateways—not to a menu or coupon, but to malicious phishing sites, malware downloads, or credential theft. The mechanics behind a quishing attack Quishing (short for QR phishing) isn't radically new.

Malware

SecureWorld News

JULY 27, 2025

Wholesalers and so-called fraud shops clean and index those records, advertising credit card dumps or "fullz" (full identity packages) on dozens of multilingual darknet markets. Finally, consumers buy the goods to perform card-not-present fraud, create synthetic identities, or phish fresh victims.

Phishing

Security Through Education

JUNE 2, 2025

But lately, those little squares have been showing up in a much sneakier way, thanks to something called Quishing its basically phishing, but with a QR code. Its way harder to spot than traditional scams, because you cant see where that QR code goes until its too late. Want to learn more about how to spot and stop scams like quishing?

Scams

Penetration Testing

JULY 9, 2025

Its distribution now spans: Fake or cracked software downloads Spear phishing job scams, targeting high-value crypto holders and freelancers Once inside, victims are socially engineered to enter system passwords under the guise of enabling screen sharing or installing job-related software.

Malware

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. This increase is likely driven by high employee turnover and easy access to phishing kits. Meanwhile, “RansomHub” is rising rapidly due to its attractive ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) model.

Cyber Attacks

Zero Day

JUNE 22, 2025

Indeed, we follow strict guidelines that ensure our editorial content is never influenced by advertisers. And while financial costs may be a factor, individual victims may face targeted phishing campaigns, social engineering schemes, identity theft, and damage to credit. Privacy Policy | | Cookie Settings | Advertise | Terms of Use

Passwords

Security Boulevard

MARCH 21, 2025

And get the latest on open source software security; cyber scams; and IoT security. While the tools work as advertised, they also perform malicious actions in the background, such as infecting the converted file with malware or stealing personal data from it, including banking information and Social Security numbers.

Risk

Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

The research also shows that reCAPTCHA relies on fingerprinting (collecting "user agent data and other identifying information") and shares this data with advertisers. Google's reCAPTCHA is not only useless, it's also basically spyware Techspot This study demonstrates Google's reCAPTCHA v2 and v3 are flawed and don't actually keep out bots.

Surveillance

Hacker's King

JULY 1, 2025

The company advertises speedy transactions, modest fees, and availability in almost every country you can name. Avoid Phishing Scams – Emails, texts, or social media messages asking for your login data are almost always fake. Still, the overriding question remains-is the environment in which all this happens genuinely secure?

Passwords

Security Boulevard

MARCH 17, 2025

The CEO claims that thanks to their "CoreAI" product/service/feature, they can leverage extreme personalized (and prediction) advertising for 91 percent of adults around the world. Of course, personalized in this context means leveraging extensive amounts of data collected on people.

Surveillance

Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

million complaints for a wide range of internet scams, resulting in $37.4 Brand impersonation scams This Black Friday and beyond, you’re likely to see scammers ripping off big name brands. Brand impersonation scams This Black Friday and beyond, you’re likely to see scammers ripping off big name brands. billion in losses.

Scams

Zero Day

JUNE 20, 2025

Indeed, we follow strict guidelines that ensure our editorial content is never influenced by advertisers. And while financial costs may be a factor, individual victims may face targeted phishing campaigns, social engineering schemes, identity theft, and damage to credit. Privacy Policy | | Cookie Settings | Advertise | Terms of Use

Passwords

Zero Day

JUNE 19, 2025

"Passkeys are an upgrade in security compared to traditional passwords and one-time SMS codes because they are resistant to guessing or theft by malicious websites or scam links, making them effective against phishing and password spraying attacks," Facebook said in its announcement. All rights reserved.

Passwords

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

In a SIM-swap, fraudsters use credentials that are phished or stolen from mobile phone company employees to divert a target’s phone calls and text messages to a device they control. 9, Kiberphant0m posted a sales thread on BreachForums offering a “SIM-swapping” service targeting Verizon PTT customers. ” On Nov.

DDOS

Malwarebytes

JULY 25, 2025

A phishing campaign targeting Instagram users is doing the rounds. There are plenty of those around, but when we took a look at this particular email, it seemed a bit different to the normal phishing emails that point to scammy websites. The scam used step-by-step instructions and fake chat support to trick users.

Phishing

Zero Day

JUNE 13, 2025

It protects your device from a variety of attacks, including scam calls, harmful apps, unsafe websites, phishing attempts, malicious links, and more. Privacy Policy | | Cookie Settings | Advertise | Terms of Use All rights reserved.

Password Management

Zero Day

JUNE 17, 2025

It protects your device from a variety of attacks, including scam calls, harmful apps, unsafe websites, phishing attempts, malicious links, and more. Privacy Policy | | Cookie Settings | Advertise | Terms of Use All rights reserved.

Password Management

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Here’s a look at a fairly elaborate SMS-based phishing scam that spoofs FedEx in a bid to extract personal and financial information from unwary recipients. One of dozens of FedEx-themed phishing sites currently being advertised via SMS spam. com — stopped resolving. com, g001bfedeex[.]com, com, and so on.

Phishing

Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2019

Scammers who make a living swindling Airbnb.com customers have a powerful new tool at their disposal: A software-as-a-service offering called “ Land Lordz ,” which helps automate the creation and management of fake Airbnb Web sites and the sending of messages to advertise the fraudulent listings.

Scams

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 28, 2024

Multiple media reports this week warned Americans to be on guard against a new phishing scam that arrives in a text message informing recipients they are not yet registered to vote. Some people interviewed who received the messages said they figured it was a scam because they knew for a fact they were registered to vote in their state.

Phishing

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2021

Also, this greenhorn criminal clearly had bought into BriansClub’s advertising, which uses my name and likeness in a series of ads that run on all the top cybercrime forums. The payment message displayed by the carding site phishing domain BriansClub[.]com. Shortly after it came online as a phishing site last year, BriansClub[.]com

Phishing

Adam Levin

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Here are 50 ways to avoid getting scammed on Black Friday — and beyond. Popular browsers, like Safari or Firefox, frequently issue updates to protect against scams. Common schemes include pop-ups advertising free goods or services in exchange for filling out a survey or warnings that your device has been infected.

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