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The Fake Browser Update Scam Gets a Makeover

Krebs on Security

One of the oldest malware tricks in the bookhacked websites claiming visitors need to update their Web browser before they can view any content — has roared back to life in the past few months. Previously, the group had stored its malicious update files on Cloudflare, Guard.io

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Calendar Meeting Links Used to Spread Mac Malware

Krebs on Security

Sure, Doug said, here’s my Calendly profile, book a time and we’ll do it then. In a post to its Twitter/X account last month, Signum Capital warned that a fake profile pretending to be their employee Mr. Lee was trying to scam people on Telegram. ” Image: SlowMist.

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Russian Reshipping Service ‘SWAT USA Drop’ Exposed

Krebs on Security

One of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing its internal operations, finances and organizational structure. Most reshipping scams promise employees a monthly salary and even cash bonuses. The login page for the criminal reshipping service SWAT USA Drop.

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Fla. Man Charged in SIM-Swapping Spree is Key Suspect in Hacker Groups Oktapus, Scattered Spider

Krebs on Security

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. Sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity the accused was a key member of a criminal hacking group blamed for a string of cyber intrusions at major U.S.

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‘Spam Nation’ Villain Vrublevsky Charged With Fraud

Krebs on Security

Pavel Vrublevsky , founder of the Russian payment technology firm ChronoPay and the antagonist in my 2014 book “ Spam Nation ,” was arrested in Moscow this month and charged with fraud. A Google-translated snippet of the hacked ChronoPay Confluence installation. Click to enlarge. Some pay, some don’t.

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Double-Your-Crypto Scams Share Crypto Scam Host

Krebs on Security

Online scams that try to separate the unwary from their cryptocurrency are a dime a dozen, but a great many seemingly disparate crypto scam websites tend to rely on the same dodgy infrastructure providers to remain online in the face of massive fraud and abuse complaints from their erstwhile customers. ” Ark-x2[.]org

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Bomb Threat, Sextortion Spammers Abused Weakness at GoDaddy.com

Krebs on Security

Large-scale spam campaigns often are conducted using newly-registered or hacked email addresses, and/or throwaway domains. Guilmette told KrebsOnSecurity he initially considered the possibility that GoDaddy had been hacked, or that thousands of the registrar’s customers perhaps had their GoDaddy usernames and passwords stolen.

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