Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2022

The candid messages revealed how Conti evaded law enforcement and intelligence agencies , what it was like on a typical day at the Conti office , and how Conti secured the digital weaponry used in their attacks. This final post on the Conti conversations explores different schemes that Conti pursued to invest in and steal cryptocurrencies.

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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.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Someone has recently created a large number of fake LinkedIn profiles for Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at some of the world’s largest corporations. If you were confused at this point, you might ask Google who it thinks is the current Chief Information Security Officer of Chevron. of spam and scam.”

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Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2022

Microsoft researchers warn of the rising threat of cryware targeting non-custodial cryptocurrency wallets, also known as hot wallets. Microsoft warns of the rise of cryware, malicious software used to steal info an dfunds from non-custodial cryptocurrency wallets, also known as hot wallets. Ransomware. Password and info stealers.

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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 information has been provided to relevant authorities in the affected countries. The new scheme is similar to the “Bitcoin Evolution” scam, that Group-IB reported on in Feb. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Experts spotted a new macOS Backdoor named SpectralBlur linked to North Korea Merck settles with insurers regarding a $1.4

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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. These methods are commonly employed in wire fraud and well-known bogus invoice scams. billion on organizations.

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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 (..)

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Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2019

” The FBI provided the following answers to those interested in have more info on the sextortion scams: What is sextortion? This could be the possibility of a modeling contract; online game credits or codes; or money, cryptocurrency, and gift cards. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

MAY 9, 2021

Experts found critical authentication bypass flaw in HPE Edgeline Infrastructure Manager UNC2529, a new sophisticated cybercrime gang that targets U.S. Experts found critical authentication bypass flaw in HPE Edgeline Infrastructure Manager UNC2529, a new sophisticated cybercrime gang that targets U.S. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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. SecurityAffairs – SIM Hijacking, cybercrime). Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2022

In November, the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) published an alert to warn the public of fraudulent schemes leveraging cryptocurrency ATMs and Quick Response (QR) codes to complete payment transactions. ? This payment option makes it quite impossible to recover the money stolen with fraudulent schemes. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

Google rolled out emergency fixes to address actively exploited Chrome zero-day Samsung discloses a second data breach this year The Prynt Stealer malware contains a secret backdoor. users China-linked APT40 used ScanBox Framework in a long-running espionage campaign Russian streaming platform Start discloses a data breach impacting 7.5M

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 3, 2022

As those of us working to better protect our organizations implement new security measures, threat actors are already creating new tactics to counter those measures. Most recently, one of those new schemes involves fake LinkedIn profiles representing Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) at some of the world's largest corporations.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

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Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2022

The huge interest in cryptocurrency is keeping high the price of crypto accounts. These documents could be used to conduct scams and identity theft. Other products available in the cybercrime underground are email databases, most of them are dumps that threat actors aggregate from past dumps. Price USD (2021) Avg.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2021

It is interesting to tone that the phishing attacks against cryptocurrency targets broke 2 per for the first time, a circumstance that demonstrates the growing interest of cybercrime in targeting users attracted by the raise of the value of cryptocurrencies like Bitcoin.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2021

If you want to also receive for free the international press subscribe here. million customers impacted. million customers impacted.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 4, 2023

CISA and FBI warn of Royal ransomware operation Retailer WH Smith discloses data breach after a cyberattack GunAuction site was hacked and data of 565k accounts were exposed Cryptojacking campaign targets insecure deployments of Redis servers Cisco fixed a critical command injection bug in IP Phone Series Threat actors target law firms with GootLoader (..)

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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 11, 2022

IHG suffered a cyberattack that severely impacted its booking process China-Linked BRONZE PRESIDENT APT targets Government officials worldwide Scammers live-streamed on YouTube a fake Apple crypto event US Treasury sanctioned Iran ’s Ministry of Intelligence over Albania cyberattack $30 Million worth of cryptocurrency stolen by Lazarus from Axie Infinity (..)

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Group-IB assisted Paxful, an international peer-to-peer cryptocurrency marketplace, in countering web-bot and social engineering attacks. The figure suggests that bitcoin platforms remain of great interest to threat actors. The unique technology that easily detects suspicious devices is exactly what we were looking for.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Shopin founder charged by SEC for running $42 million scam cryptocurrency ICO. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged the founder of Shopin , Eran Eyal, for allegedly running $42 million scam ICO. ” reads the press release published by SEC. ” continues the SEC’s compliant.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 5, 2020

By tweeting a cryptocurrency scam from 45 of the accounts, the hackers turned a quick $100,000 profit. And this case also offers another wakeup call, this time about the identities of the hackers involved in cybercrime. Together, the trio used phone spear phishing to gain access to a number of Twitter employees.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2023

CyberNews analyzed a classic cryptocurrency romance scam, also known as CryptoRom, explaining how scammers hid the money CryptoRom scammers hid the money with several layers of obfuscation, but the Cybernews research team discovered that the stolen funds ended up in Binance accounts. Here’s how we did it.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 25, 2023

citizen, who was involved in the attack on Twitter in 2020, was sentenced to five years in prison for cybercrime offenses. Joseph James O’Connor, aka PlugwalkJoe (24), the hacker who was involved in the attacks on Twitter in 2020, was sentenced to five years in prison for cybercrime offenses.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2024

Last week, threat actors hacked the X account of cybersecurity firm Mandiant and used it to impersonate the Phantom crypto platform and share a cryptocurrency scam. The threat actors exploited the account to promote an airdrop scam. The scam was designed to drain funds from the victims’ wallets.

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Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2021

Mindaugas (who wished his last name not to be disclosed publicly), an executive at a UK-based company, unknowingly fell for a scam when he tried to claim a £60 bonus supposedly offered by Coinbase, a mistake that resulted in £15,000 lost to fraudsters in minutes. Falling for the scam. The scammers didn’t waste any time.

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 25, 2022

Folks, Who wants to dive deep into some of my latest commercially available research and stay on the top of their OSINT/cybercrime research and threat intelligence gathering game that also includes their team and organization? Dancho Danchev’s “Astalavista Security Group – Investment Proposal” Presentation – A Photos Compilation.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

The US DoJ charged the suspected Twitter hacker ‘PlugWalkJoe’ with the theft of $784,000 worth of cryptocurrency using SIM swap attacks. Once hijacked a SIM, the attackers can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts.

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Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2020

Thus, the number of phishing attacks on cloud storages nearly doubled last year, while Internet providers have seen the three-fold increase in the number of phishing scams targeting them. CERT-GIB’s findings indicate that phishing attack perpetrators have revised their so-called target pool. Balance of power.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 11, 2022

According to cybersecurity experts , this may be used for political propaganda, foreign influence activity, disinformation, scams, and fraud. . The experts highlight deepfakes will be likely used by bad actors to provide misleading information about cryptocurrency, as well as Initial Coin Offerings (ICOs), using profiles of celebrities.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 7, 2021

Casinos of tribal communities are losing millions in Ransomware attacks Threat actors stole $55 million worth of cryptocurrency from bZx DeFi platform Philips Tasy EMR healthcare infomatics solution vulnerable to SQL injection White hat hackers earn over $1 Million at Pwn2Own Austin 2021 A drone was modified to disrupt U.S. Operators made $2.1

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Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

Trains employees ChatGPT’s security applications aren’t limited to Information Security (IS) personnel. The program can help close the security knowledge gap by assisting in employee training. Vulnerabilities and exploits There are few ways to know in advance if an LLM is free from vulnerabilities.

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