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U.S. Sanctions Cloud Provider ‘Funnull’ as Top Source of ‘Pig Butchering’ Scams

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a Philippines-based company that provides computer infrastructure for hundreds of thousands of websites involved in virtual currency investment scams known as pig butchering.” ” The Treasury Department said Funnull’s operations are linked to the majority of virtual currency investment scam websites reported to the FBI.

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China-based SMS Phishing Triad Pivots to Banks

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The site will then complain that the visitor’s bank needs to “verify” the transaction by sending a one-time code via SMS. In reality, the bank is sending that code to the mobile number on file for their customer because the fraudsters have just attempted to enroll that victim’s card details into a mobile wallet.

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Infrastructure Laundering: Blending in with the Cloud

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In October 2024, the security firm Silent Push published a lengthy analysis of how Amazon AWS and Microsoft Azure were providing services to Funnull, a two-year-old Chinese content delivery network that hosts a wide variety of fake trading apps, pig butchering scams , gambling websites, and retail phishing pages. cloud providers.

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How Phished Data Turns into Apple & Google Wallets

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But they also offer a more cutting-edge mobile fraud technology: Merrill found that at least one of the Chinese phishing groups sells an Android app called “ ZNFC ” that can relay a valid NFC transaction to anywhere in the world. “This is much bigger than the banks are prepared to say.”

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PayPal Phishing Scam Uses Invoices Sent Via PayPal

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While the phishing message attached to the invoice is somewhat awkwardly worded, there are many convincing aspects of this hybrid scam. Also, the email headers in the phishing message (PDF) show that it passed all email validation checks as being sent by PayPal, and that it was sent through an Internet address assigned to PayPal.

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

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” The operation was carried out in coordination with the FBI and authorities in Australia, which was particularly hard hit by phishing scams perpetrated by U-Admin customers. The security flaw was briefly alluded to in a 2018 writeup on U-Admin by the SANS Internet Storm Center. The U-Admin phishing panel interface. Image: fr3d.hk/blog.

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How Do You Fight a $12B Fraud Problem? One Scammer at a Time

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The fraudsters behind the often laughable Nigerian prince email scams have long since branched out into far more serious and lucrative forms of fraud, including account takeovers, phishing, dating scams, and malware deployment. The FBI says BEC scams netted thieves more than $12 billion between 2013 and 2018.