Authentication Cryptocurrency Phishing Web Fraud 
Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 21, 2020
Fraudsters redirected email and web traffic destined for several cryptocurrency trading platforms over the past week. In March, a voice phishing scam targeting GoDaddy support employees allowed attackers to assume control over at least a half-dozen domain names, including transaction brokering site escrow.com.
Krebs on Security
AUGUST 30, 2022
A recent spate of SMS phishing attacks from one cybercriminal group has spawned a flurry of breach disclosures from affected companies, which are all struggling to combat the same lingering security threat: The ability of scammers to interact directly with employees through their mobile devices.
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Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 26, 2023
But it’s worth revisiting how this group typically got in to targeted companies: By calling employees and tricking them into navigating to a phishing website. But we do know the March 2020 attack was precipitated by a spear-phishing attack against a GoDaddy employee. In a filing with the U.S.
Krebs on Security
OCTOBER 13, 2021
A recent phishing campaign targeting Coinbase users shows thieves are getting cleverer about phishing one-time passwords (OTPs) needed to complete the login process. A Google-translated version of the now-defunct Coinbase phishing site, coinbase.com.password-reset[.]com. The Coinbase phishing panel. million Italians.
Krebs on Security
JANUARY 30, 2024
authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. ” Group-IB dubbed the gang by a different name — 0ktapus — which was a nod to how the criminal group phished employees for credentials.
Krebs on Security
MAY 30, 2023
A number of Discord communities focused on cryptocurrency have been hacked this past month after their administrators were tricked into running malicious Javascript code disguised as a Web browser bookmark. Scavuzzo said the administrator’s account was hijacked even though she had multi-factor authentication turned on.
Krebs on Security
JULY 29, 2021
Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another. TARGETED PHISHING. The targeted phishing message that went out to classicfootballshirts.co.uk So hopefully by this point it should be clear why re-using passwords is generally a bad idea. customers this month.
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