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China-based SMS Phishing Triad Pivots to Banks

Krebs on Security

China-based purveyors of SMS phishing kits are enjoying remarkable success converting phished payment card data into mobile wallets from Apple and Google. The site will then complain that the visitor’s bank needs to “verify” the transaction by sending a one-time code via SMS. Image: Prodaft.

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GUESST ESSAY: Cybercrime for hire: small businesses are the new bullseye of the Dark Web

The Last Watchdog

And thanks to an explosion of inexpensive cybercrime-as-a-service offerings on the dark web, launching an attack is easier and cheaper than ever. Cybercrime industrialized The dark web has become a marketplace where bad actors can buy tools and access with the ease of shopping for software.

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New version of Android malware FakeCall redirects bank calls to scammers

Security Affairs

The latest FakeCall malware version for Android intercepts outgoing bank calls, redirecting them to attackers to steal sensitive info and bank funds. The malware allows operators to steal bank users’ sensitive information and money from their bank accounts. ” reads the report published by Zimperium.

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Notorious Malware, Spam Host “Prospero” Moves to Kaspersky Lab

Krebs on Security

Security experts say the Russia-based service provider Prospero OOO (the triple O is the Russian version of “LLC”) has long been a persistent source of malicious software, botnet controllers, and a torrent of phishing websites. The bulletproof hosting provider BEARHOST. This screenshot has been machine-translated from Russian. .

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Phishing Sites Targeting Scammers and Thieves

Krebs on Security

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

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Arrest, Raids Tied to ‘U-Admin’ Phishing Kit

Krebs on Security

Cyber cops in Ukraine carried out an arrest and several raids last week in connection with the author of a U-Admin , a software package used to administer what’s being called “one of the world’s largest phishing services.” The U-Admin phishing panel interface. Image: fr3d.hk/blog. ” U-Admin, a.k.a.

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U.K. Arrest in ‘SMS Bandits’ Phishing Service

Krebs on Security

Authorities in the United Kingdom have arrested a 20-year-old man for allegedly operating an online service for sending high-volume phishing campaigns via mobile text messages. ” SMS Bandits offered an SMS phishing (a.k.a. Image: osint.fans. “But on the telecom front they were using fairly sophisticated tactics.”

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