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Pakistani Firm Shipped Fentanyl Analogs, Scams to US

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com were paid for by the same account advertising a number of scam websites selling logo and web design services. GOOGLE RESPONDS KrebsOnSecurity reviewed the Google Ad Transparency links for nearly 500 different websites tied to this network of ghostwriting, logo, app and web development businesses.

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How Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks

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The 122 services targeted in Sanders’ research include some of the more prominent businesses advertising on the cybercrime forums today, such as: -abuse-friendly or “bulletproof” hosting providers like anonvm[.]wtf, wtf, and PQHosting ; -sites selling aged email, financial, or social media accounts, such as verif[.]work

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Booking.com Phishers May Leave You With Reservations

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A service advertised on the English-language crime community BreachForums in October courts phishers who may need help with certain aspects of their phishing campaigns targeting booking.com partners. One post last month on the Russian-language hacking forum BHF offered up to $5,000 for each hotel account.

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A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew

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One “autodoxer” service advertised on Telegram that promotes a range of voice phishing tools and services. Known as “ autodoxers ,” these tools help phishing gangs quickly automate the acquisition and/or verification of personal data on a target prior to each call attempt.

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Pay Up, Or We’ll Make Google Ban Your Ads

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.” The message goes on to warn that while the targeted site’s ad revenue will be briefly increased, “AdSense traffic assessment algorithms will detect very fast such a web traffic pattern as fraudulent.” This means that the main source of profit for your site will be temporarily suspended.

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Using Google Search to Find Software Can Be Risky

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For example, a Google search earlier this week for the free graphic design program FreeCAD produced the following result, which shows that a “Sponsored” ad at the top of the search results is advertising the software available from freecad-us[.]org. million advertiser accounts. Google says it removed 5.2

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Malicious Office 365 Apps Are the Ultimate Insiders

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This week, messaging security vendor Proofpoint published some new data on the rise of these malicious Office 365 apps, noting that a high percentage of Office users will fall for this scheme [full disclosure: Proofpoint is an advertiser on this website]. A cybercriminal service advertising the sale of access to hacked Office365 accounts.