Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

SpyLoan apps exploit social engineering to gain sensitive user data and excessive permissions, leading to extortion, harassment, and financial loss. Some of the malicious apps were promoted through deceptive advertising on social media. Similar scams were reported globally. ” concludes the report.

Social Engineering

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. Importantly, the attack methods here are not new. Importantly, the attack methods here are not new. But sometimes the AI pushes back.

Artificial Intelligence

Security Through Education

JUNE 2, 2025

Its way harder to spot than traditional scams, because you cant see where that QR code goes until its too late. They may advertise a seemingly lucrative business opportunity for their company, drawing unsuspecting targets to apply. Want to learn more about how to spot and stop scams like quishing? The worst part?

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

Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2025

After entering their credentials, victims are social engineered by the crooks to type a security code that was sent to their email address. In that same report, the FBI advises consumers to check the URL to make sure the site is authentic before clicking on an advertisement.

Phishing

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.   Think you've been involved in a data breach?

Passwords

Zero Day

JULY 9, 2025

An incessant drumbeat of advice about how to choose and use strong passwords and how not to fall prey to social engineering attacks has done little to keep threat actors at bay.  Privacy Policy | | Cookie Settings | Advertise | Terms of Use All rights reserved.

Passwords

Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This underscores the importance of having additional compensating controls and educating employees on the risks associated with phishing and other social engineering attacks. On October 18, 2024, a user on XSS advertised an “Advanced Office 365 Tutorial” for BEC.

Cyber Attacks

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.   Think you've been involved in a data breach?

Passwords

Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 7, 2025

AI-powered social engineering makes scams more convincing, while stolen passwords enable criminals to log into corporate networks and move laterally unnoticed. Every time you log in, shop, or interact online, businesses, data brokers, and advertisers store, analyze, and monetize fragments of your identity.

Authentication

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2020

In almost every category — from epic breaches and ransomware to cybercrime justice and increasingly aggressive phishing and social engineering scams — 2020 was a year that truly went to eleven. Who’s Behind the ‘Web Listings’ Mail Scam? Would You Have Fallen for this Phone Scam?

Scams

The Hacker News

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

The Classiscam scam-as-a-service program has reaped the criminal actors $64.5 Classiscam campaigns initially started out on classified sites, on which scammers placed fake advertisements and used social engineering techniques to convince users to pay for goods by transferring money to bank cards," Group-IB said in a new report.

Scams

Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 12, 2024

The goal of this scam is to get unsuspecting people on the phone with someone pretending to be working for Apple. From there, fraudulent call center agents will social engineer their victims in order to extract money from them.

Advertising

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

Allen said a typical voice phishing or “vishing” attack by this group involves at least two perpetrators: One who is social engineering the target over the phone, and another co-conspirator who takes any credentials entered at the phishing page and quickly uses them to log in to the target company’s VPN platform in real-time.

Phishing

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 26, 2023

Summary In the midst of significant layoffs hitting the previously immune tech industry, scammers have mobilized and doubled down on targeting job seekers with various employment scams. The attackers may advertise jobs online, sometimes setting up fake websites, or look for targets on social media to steal money and personal information.

Scams

Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

These individuals said they were only customers of the person who had access to Twitter’s internal employee tools, and were not responsible for the actual intrusion or bitcoin scams that took place that day. “Without the buyers and the resellers, there is no incentive to hack into all these social media and gaming companies.”

Hacking

Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 28, 2023

In 2023, the public primarily confronted two varieties of online scams: the technical and the topical. Technical scams abuse legitimate aspects of modern internet infrastructure to lead users to illegitimate or compromised sites. Topical scams, on the other hand, are simpler. We know these scams all too well.

Scams

Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2020

These restrictions have created a burgeoning underground market for reshipping scams, which rely on willing or unwitting residents in the United States and Europe — derisively referred to as “ reshipping mules ” — to receive and relay high-dollar stolen goods to crooks living in the embargoed areas. .

Cybercrime

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

” 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. The amount of fraud we are fighting is truly staggering.”

Scams

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Threat actors involved in tech support scams have been running a browser locker campaign from November 2020 until February 2021 on the world’s largest adult platforms including PornHub. We know from our telemetry that the malicious advertiser is targeting victims from the U.S. Redirection chain. and the U.K. Fake dating sites.

Scams

Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

See Using Caution with Email Attachments and Avoiding Social Engineering and Phishing Scams for more information. Review the Federal Trade Commission’s page on Charity Scams for more information. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

Malware

Malwarebytes

MAY 3, 2022

A real world scam which sucks the fun out of craft fairs has caused nothing but stress for victims. This isn’t an isolated case; this specific scam targeted people all across the UK. How does this fake vendor fair scam work? The really interesting thing about all this is that fake fair scams aren’t some weird anomaly.

Scams

Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2020

The crooks exploited online tools and technology along with social engineering tactics to target the victims and steal usernames, passwords, and bank accounts. Okpoh, Benson and Kayode conducted romance scams and were involved in money laundering along with Uzuh. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime).

Scams

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 3, 2024

But first I want to share some more remarkable conclusions from the report: Charity scams that prey on concern about international conflicts and natural disasters are becoming more prevalent. The social engineering techniques used by fraudsters are growing in complexity. Investment scams can often afford to look good.

Scams

Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. Leveraging its English proficiency, the collective uses social engineering for initial access. Within six hours, the attacker began encrypting the organization’s systems.

Social Engineering

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The man is suspected to have scammed more than six executives in the Bay Area. Typically the attacker gathers the information to respond the questions through social engineering or through OSINT activities. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

Cryptocurrency

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

million (roughly $750 million) through authorized and unauthorized fraud and scams in the UK alone. This is no surprise as phishing is often the prelude to more serious threats like ransomware, breaches, and BEC scams. This includes fraudulent advertising on search engines, fake websites and posts on social media.

Scams

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Like other social media platforms, LinkedIn is no stranger to bots attracted to special keywords and hashtags. Think “I was laid off”, “I’m #opentowork” and similar phrases that can wake up a swarm of bots hungry to scam someone new. If you ever fall victim to a scam, time is of the essence.

Phishing

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Business email compromise scam (BEC) continues to target organizations worldwide, crooks stole $742,000 from Ocala City in Florida. The City of Ocala in Florida is the last victim in order of time of a profitable business email compromise scam (BEC) attack, fraudsters redirected over $742,000 to a bank account under their control.

Scams

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 18, 2022

And now another issue for the agricultute sector: Sophisticated scams involving fake tractors and sale portals have cost certain businesses $1.2 As with so many internet scams, it begins with fake online adverts. These take the form of both fake websites and bogus ads placed on genuine advertising platforms.

Scams

Security Through Education

MAY 21, 2024

Whether you’re planning a vacation, gearing up for outdoor activities, or simply enjoying some downtime, it’s crucial to remain vigilant against the wide array of scams that tend to surge during this time of the year. The sense of urgency created by limited time offers can lure unsuspecting victims into being scammed.

Scams

SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2024

The concept of the term "malvertising" (a portmanteau of "malicious advertising") suggests an overlap with ads, albeit dodgy ones, and therefore fuels the fallacy that its impact hardly goes beyond frustration. Again, a raid as harmful as that commences with what appears to be garden-variety deceptive advertising trickery.

Cybercrime

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Group-IB assisted Paxful, an international peer-to-peer cryptocurrency marketplace, in countering web-bot and social engineering attacks. 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.

Cryptocurrency

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

They profited from a scam, popular some time before, which sold “magic pills” — counterfeit drugs and dietary supplements purported to cure even serious chronic diseases. This scam’s elderly victims spent hundreds and thousands of dollars on the products, borrowing from friends and taking loans. . Pierluigi Paganini.

Banking

Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 11, 2022

There’s not many individual scams which can put “18 years and counting” on their resume. Of course, this was tied into a nonsensical scam about recovering lots of lost money should he be brought safely back. “Mark Ruffalo deepfake romance scam” What a sentence. spaaaaaaaaaace. What a world.

Scams

Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

The threat actors leverage perfectly orchestrated social engineering technique by “persuading” people holding significant corporate positions to open a non-malicious PDF email attachment coming from an authentic address in their contacts. “The Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Phishing

Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Newbies get a taste of what phishing tools can do, pull off their first scam and wish for more, which is when they will be offered paid content. “To attract larger audiences, scam operators advertise their services, promising to teach others how to phish for serious cash.” ” continues the report.

Phishing