SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Having been in the field for so long, we have witnessed some major changes in the cybercrime world’s modus operandi. This report shares our insights into the Russian-speaking cybercrime world and the changes in how it operates that have happened in the past five years.

Cybercrime 137

Cybercrime Banking Malware Ransomware 137

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

million from the German bank OLB by cloning customer debit cards and using them to cash out user funds across Brazil. million from the German bank Oldenburgische Landesbank (OLB) by cloning customer debit cards and using them to cash out user funds across Brazil. SecurityAffairs – OLB bank, cybercrime).

Banking 85

Banking Cybercrime Advertising Scams 85

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2022

Earlier this month, the administrator of the cybercrime forum Breached received a cease-and-desist letter from a cybersecurity firm. The missive alleged that an auction on the site for data stolen from 10 million customers of Mexico’s second-largest bank was fake news and harming the bank’s reputation.

Data breaches 261

Data breaches Banking Cybercrime Marketing 261

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The six-month operation (July-December 2023) targeted organizations involved in seven types of online scams: business email compromise (BEC), ecommerce fraud, investment fraud, voice phishing , money laundering associated with illegal online gambling, romance scams , and online sextortion schemes.

Scams 95

Scams eCommerce Banking Cybercrime 95

Krebs on Security

JUNE 30, 2021

A counterfeit check image [redacted] that was intended for a person helping this fraud gang print and mail phony checks tied to a raft of email-based scams. the “car wrap” scam ). A few days after the check is deposited, it gets invariably canceled by the organization whose bank account information was on the check.

Scams 244

Scams Banking Accountability Cybercrime 244

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2022

That said, here are what I consider to be the Top 5 online threats seniors face today: •Computer tech support scams. These scams take advantage of seniors’ lack of computer and cybersecurity knowledge. Once they get remote access, fraudsters hack confidential details of older adults and scam them. Romance Scam.

Identity Theft 274

Identity Theft Scams Insurance Internet 274

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The gang carried out several fraudulent activities and earned about three million euros by carrying out various types of scams and reselling the stolen data to other cybercriminals. Criminal activities conducted by the group are smishing , phishing and vishing campaigns, and the ‘son in distress’ scam.

Computers and Electronics 86

Computers and Electronics Scams Cybercrime Phishing 86

Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2021

Experts warn that cybercriminals are targeting Indonesia’s major banks posing as bank representatives or customer support team members on Twitter. To lure victims, cybercriminals pose as bank representatives or customer support team members on Twitter. From January to early March 2021, this scheme grew in scope 2.5-fold

Banking 92

Banking Scams Accountability Media 92

SecureWorld News

JULY 30, 2022

Have you recently noticed an increase in the number of random scam texts being sent your way? The FCC says it has received a substantial increase in the number of complaints from consumers about robotexts, so it wants to provide information to help everyone avoid being scammed. Do not respond or click on any links in the message.

Scams 76

Scams Wireless Government Accountability 76

Security Affairs

JANUARY 3, 2024

Resecurity has uncovered a cybercriminal faction known as “ GXC Team “, who specializes in crafting tools for online banking theft, ecommerce deception, and internet scams. Upon detection, it alters the banking information of the intended recipient (like the victim’s supplier) to details specified by the perpetrator.

Artificial Intelligence 117

Artificial Intelligence Banking Scams Cybercrime 117

Security Affairs

MAY 12, 2024

Enjoy a new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter, including the international press.

Data breaches 79

Data breaches VPN Hacking Banking 79

The Last Watchdog

APRIL 6, 2020

Fraudsters did enough online intelligence gathering on the Manor Independent School District, in Manor, Texas, to figure out which vendors were in line to receive large bank transfers as part of the school district spending the proceeds of a large school bond. They also studied the employees who handled the transactions. The total stolen: $2.3

Scams 147

Scams Social Engineering Ransomware Engineering 147

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 30, 2021

INTERPOL published the African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2021, a report that analyzes evolution of cybercrime in Africa. A new report published by INTERPOL, titled the African Cyberthreat Assessment Report 2021 , sheds the light on cybercrime in Africa.

Cybercrime 78

Cybercrime Scams DDOS Banking 78

Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2020

A cybercrime gang focused on Business Email Compromise (BEC) has started using coronavirus-themed scam emails in its attacks. The researchers received a coronavirus-themed scam email that attempted to trick victims into using a different bank account for the payment due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Pierluigi Paganini.

Scams 106

Scams Banking Cybercrime Advertising 106

SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 2, 2021

It begins with an email correspondence the victim is expecting related to a financial transaction, then that information is compromised through hacking or other means. Before the victim knows it, they have been conned into transferring their entire life's savings or some of their business's budget into a malicious hacker's bank account.

Cybercrime 86

Cybercrime Healthcare Social Engineering Banking 86

Malwarebytes

JUNE 23, 2022

Europol has coordinated a joint operation to arrest members of a cybercrime gang and effectively dismantle their campaigns that netted million in Euros. The group was involved in fraud, money laundering, phishing, and scams. Once recipients opened the link, they would be directed to a bogus bank website.

Phishing 103

Phishing Banking Cryptocurrency Scams 103

The Last Watchdog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2022

Related: The threat of ‘business logic’ hacks. The Iranian hacker group TA453 has recently been using a technique that creates multiple personas to trick victims , deploying “social proof” to scam people into engaging in a thread. Companies and consumers must be more cautious than ever when using their devices.

Phishing 124

Phishing Scams Cybercrime Passwords 124

Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2021

The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center has released its annual report, the 2020 Internet Crime Report , which includes data from 791,790 complaints of suspected cybercrimes. According to the 2020 Internet Crime Report , the top three crimes reported by victims in 2020 were phishing scams, non-payment/non-delivery scams, and extortion.

Internet 106

Internet Internet Scams Identity Theft 106

CyberSecurity Insiders

JULY 6, 2022

Research conducted by Nord VPN says about 330 Britons are hacked every minute, i.e. one Brit, for every 0.2 Concernedly, the hacking has gone on a rampage and is increasing at epic proportions. A trend observed to date in the corporate world. Some attacks take place often, after which victims stop treating them as cyber crimes.

VPN 93

VPN Hacking Scams Cybercrime 93

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

Money Transfer Scam – Scammers hack the victims’s email accounts, monitor conversations between the buyers and title agents, send instructions on where to wire the money. The con in question is a money transfer scam with all the likeness of a typical transaction. Security Affairs – Money Transfer Scam, cybercrime).

Scams 80

Scams Advertising Accountability Surveillance 80

Security Affairs

MARCH 31, 2023

million scam. Bank card data, which customers indicated on phishing resources to pay for orders, automatically became known to attackers. ” The cybercrime organization also created two call centers, in Vinnytsia and in Lviv, as part of the fraudulent scheme. million with phishing campaigns.

Banking 83

Banking Phishing Scams Cybercrime 83

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. That was right after KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that someone had hacked BriansClub and siphoned information on 26 million stolen debit and credit accounts.

Phishing 355

Phishing Cybercrime Accountability Advertising 355

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Iran Crisis Russia-Aligned TAG-70 Targets European Government and Military Mail Servers in New Espionage Campaign U.S.

Spyware 94

Spyware Cyber Insurance Hacking Advertising 94

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 6, 2022

The Australian Federal Police (AFP) arrested a 19-year-old teen from Sydney for attempting to use data from the Optus data breach in SMS scams. “ A Sydney man, 19, has been charged for allegedly attempting to misuse stolen Optus customer data in a text message blackmail scam.” SecurityAffairs – hacking, Optus).

Data breaches 70

Data breaches Scams Telecommunications Financial Services 70

Security Affairs

MARCH 13, 2020

European authorities dismantled two cybercrime organizations responsible for stealing millions through SIM hijacking. European authorities managed to dismantle the operations of two cybercrime gangs responsible for stealing millions through SIM hijacking. The authorities arrested tens of individuals in Spain and Romania. .

Banking 113

Banking Cybercrime Mobile Accountability 113

The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

This quirk made the attack look more trustworthy and added a layer of flexibility to these scams. Balaban This ransomware was doing the rounds over spam generated by the Gameover ZeuS botnet, which had been originally launched in 2011 as a toolkit for stealing victim’s banking credentials and was repurposed for malware propagation.

Ransomware 243

Ransomware Hacking Encryption Penetration Testing 243

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The FBI’s Internal Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report , a document that outlines cybercrime trends over the past year. The figure that most of all capture our attention is that victims of cybercrime activities lost $3.5 BEC scams resulted in more than $1.7 Billion in 2019.

Internet 110

Internet Internet Scams Cybercrime 110

SecureWorld News

AUGUST 26, 2021

million being transferred to foreign internet scam artists. As it turns out, the scammers used fake email to pose as ConVal, where the actors then routed the payment into their bank account. Additionally, two other large payments related to a bridge project were scheduled to transfer into the thief's bank account but were intervened.

Scams 94

Scams Cybercrime Government Banking 94

Malwarebytes

JUNE 14, 2021

Lock and Code S02E10 DOJ recovers pipeline ransom, signals more aggressive approach to cybercrime 800 arrests after police dupe crime groups into using backdoored phones TrickBot indictment reveals the scale and complexity of organised cybercrime Microsoft fixes seven zero-days , including two PuzzleMaker targets, Google fixes serious Android flaw (..)

Cybercrime 54

Cybercrime Scams VPN Phishing 54

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

The opportunity to acquire them in bulk will be extremely attractive for actors involved in spam, online banking theft, scam, business email compromise (BEC), and account takeover (ATO) activities.

Scams 125

Scams Passwords Phishing Accountability 125

Identity IQ

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Elderly Americans are facing a drastic increase in cybercrime, identity theft and financial abuse. billion in cybercrime losses to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) – a 74% increase from the previous year. Many seniors are less technologically savvy than younger generations, making them more vulnerable to cybercrime.

Identity Theft 95

Identity Theft Scams Cybercrime Accountability 95

Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2019

The FBI published a security advisory to warn of cyber actors using online dating sites to conduct confidence/romance scam and recruit money mules. The FBI published a security advisory to warn of confidence/romance scams turning victims into money mules. SecurityAffairs – money mules, cybercrime). ” reads the advisory.

Scams 53

Scams Banking Accountability Advertising 53

Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2020

Group-IB discovered thousands of personal records of users from multiple countries exposed in a targeted multi-stage bitcoin scam. The new scheme is similar to the “Bitcoin Evolution” scam, that Group-IB reported on in Feb. SecurityAffairs – hacking, bitcoin scam). Pierluigi Paganini.

Scams 99

Scams Media Cryptocurrency Data breaches 99

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 308

Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Marketing Scams 308

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

The investigation revealed that probably thousands of national and international small and large organizations were hacked by the suspects that also attempted to extort money from the victims. The Dutch police started the investigation in March 2021 following a complaint of data theft and threats from a large Dutch company.

Cybercrime 90

Cybercrime Identity Theft Hacking Scams 90

Security Affairs

JULY 30, 2023

Now Abyss Locker also targets VMware ESXi servers Russian APT BlueBravo targets diplomatic entities with GraphicalProton backdoor CoinsPaid blames North Korea-linked APT Lazarus for theft of $37M worth of cryptocurrency Monitor Insider Threats but Build Trust First Zimbra fixed actively exploited zero-day CVE-2023-38750 in ZCS DepositFiles exposed (..)

Surveillance 77

Surveillance Cryptocurrency Cyber Attacks Hacking 77

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The operation is the result of a joint effort of 27 countries, Eurojust, INTERPOL, the European Banking Federation (EBF), and the FinTech FinCrime Exchange. The money mules have a crucial role in criminal organizations to launder money for a wide array of illegal activities, such as online scams, sim-swapping, e-commerce fraud, and phishing.

Banking 110

Banking Scams Phishing Media 110