Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Resecurity identified one of the largest investment fraud networks by size and volume of operations created to defraud Internet users from Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, the European Union, India, Singapore, Malaysia, United Arab Emirates, Saudi Arabia, Mexico, the U.S. billion to scams. and other regions. and the U.K

Scams 91

Scams Mobile Marketing Banking 91

Security Boulevard

MARCH 22, 2022

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (ic3.gov) gov) has released their 2021 Internet Crime Report. For several years, the #1 Cybercrime type has been Business Email Compromise followed by the #2 of Romance Scam. 2 dislodges Romance Scams by Investment Scams for the first time ever with a dramatic increase! . #2

Scams 98

Scams Artificial Intelligence Identity Theft Data breaches 98

SC Magazine

JUNE 28, 2021

A technician inspects the backside of a cryptocurrency mining farm in Saint Hyacinthe, Quebec. Cryptocurrency is famously anonymous, but evading capture is not the only reason cryptocurrency is the go-to payment solution for ransomware. First, understanding the role of cryptocurrency in ransomware. Would it work?

Cryptocurrency 69

Cryptocurrency Ransomware Banking Cybercrime 69

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The FBI warns of an increase of fraudulent schemes leveraging cryptocurrency ATMs and QR Codes to facilitate payment. 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.

Cryptocurrency 79

Cryptocurrency Scams Accountability Government 79

SecureWorld News

MARCH 22, 2021

The FBI just released its annual Internet Crime Report, and it is truly a sign of the times. The FBI notes that the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has been key to its mission to track cybercrimes. The IC3 received 19,369 reports of BEC/EAC scams in 2020. "In And this year's report highlights five "hot topics.".

Cybercrime 56

Cybercrime Scams Banking Accountability 56

SecureWorld News

MARCH 28, 2022

While it should come as no surprise that cybercrime broke pretty much every record in 2021, the actual numbers behind the crimes are quite revealing. Cybercrime in the last five years. The first section of the report provides an overview of what cybercrime has looked like in the last five years.

Internet 78

Internet Internet Cybercrime Ransomware 78

SecureWorld News

JULY 19, 2022

Stay away from cryptocurrencies—for now. It says these fraudsters are "claiming to offer legitimate cryptocurrency investment services, and convincing investors to download fraudulent mobile apps, which the cyber criminals have used with increasing success over time to defraud the investors of their cryptocurrency.".

Cryptocurrency 83

Cryptocurrency Scams Cybercrime Accountability 83

SecureList

MAY 6, 2024

A significant share of scam, phishing and malware attacks is about money. Methodology In this report, we present an analysis of financial cyberthreats in 2023, focusing on banking Trojans and phishing pages that target online banking, shopping accounts, cryptocurrency wallets and other financial assets. million in 2022.

Phishing 80

Phishing Banking Mobile Scams 80

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

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. 12 blog post , the attackers used their access to Mailchimp employee accounts to steal data from 214 customers involved in cryptocurrency and finance. 9, 2024, U.S.

Social Engineering 318

Social Engineering Mobile Cybercrime Passwords 318

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. million USD) monthly. Services in demand.

Cybercrime 137

Cybercrime Banking Malware Ransomware 137

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

New research indicates that half of all phishing scams are now hosted on Web sites whose Internet address includes the padlock and begins with “[link]. Most of the battle to combat cybercrime involves defenders responding to offensive moves made by attackers. But not all phishing scams get flagged so quickly.

Phishing 276

Phishing Scams Cryptocurrency Internet 276

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

Artificial Intelligence 91

Artificial Intelligence Data breaches Scams Insurance 91

SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic is likely to cause a massive wave of poverty, and that invariably translates into more people resorting to crime, including cybercrime. We should expect more fraud, targeting mostly BTC , because this cryptocurrency is the most popular. Cracking down hard on the cybercrime world.

Cryptocurrency 104

Cryptocurrency Banking Cybercrime Ransomware 104

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.

Artificial Intelligence 117

Artificial Intelligence Banking Scams Cybercrime 117

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Cybercrime is a growth industry like no other. According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. Phishing complaints were reported over 300,000 times in 2021 to IC3, the only Internet crime to crack 100,000+ complaints.

Social Engineering 118

Social Engineering Energy and Utilities Phishing Scams 118

Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2019

The internet connects you with the world. FBI is seeing a significant increase in activity involving sextortion, “a federal crime that happens when an adult coerces a child to produce sexually explicit photographs or video of themselves and then send it to them over the Internet.” Help the #StopSextortion.

Scams 88

Scams Internet Internet Advertising 88

SecureList

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

Cybercriminals continued targeting gamers’ accounts filled with valuable in-game items or giving access to games on several devices, and often used in-game currency to lure victims to participate in their scams. Unfortunately, this ambiguity sets the stage for an anticipated increase in charity-related scams in 2024.

VPN 90

VPN Scams Education Internet 90

Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2022

The linked article focuses on misconfiguration, phishing issues, limiting data share, and the ever-present Internet of Things. Cryptocurrency wallet attacks. People new to cryptocurrency often gravitate to services which take the hassle out of setting everything up. Below, we dig into a few of those.

Cryptocurrency 117

Cryptocurrency Backups Phishing Password Management 117

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.

Cryptocurrency 97

Cryptocurrency Social Engineering Malware Scams 97

Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2021

That means these numbers are the floor, and that the situation out on the Internet is worse than the mounting numbers indicate.” . “The APWG’s members are reporting more confirmed phishing attacks,” said Greg Aaron, Senior Research Fellow at the APWG, and the editor of the new report.

Phishing 102

Phishing Advertising Cryptocurrency Encryption 102

Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The Origins and History of the Dark Web IdentityIQ The dark web is a hidden part of the internet that cannot be accessed as easily. The dark web consists of websites and services that operate anonymously and aren’t accessible in the “public” part of the internet. The deep web is far and away the largest part of the internet.

Identity Theft 98

Identity Theft Cryptocurrency Government Engineering 98

Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

Welcome to Internet Safety Month, a once-a-year event in which you, the public, are told that anywhere between three and 30 different best practices will simplify your approach to staying safe online. This year, then, for Internet Safety Month, we’re packaging our advice a little differently. None of these situations are hypotheticals.

Internet 125

Internet Internet Scams Passwords 125

SecureList

MARCH 29, 2023

Meanwhile, cryptocurrency became a prominent target for those seeking monetary gain. The amount of cryptocurrency-related phishing grew significantly in 2022, and with an endless array of new coins, NFT and other DeFi projects, scammers are continuously duping users. Now we see that APT actors have also switched to crypto.

Banking 71

Banking Phishing Cryptocurrency Mobile 71

SecureList

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There are two main types of online fraud aimed at stealing user data and money: phishing and scams. The history of scams and phishing. The term “phishing” was coined back in 1996, when cybercriminals attacked users of America Online (AOL), the largest internet provider at that time.

Scams 93

Scams Phishing Social Engineering Banking 93

SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

For the purposes of this report, “financial malware” refers to malicious software targeting entities within the financial services sector, including online banking, payment systems, e-money services, online stores and cryptocurrency services. A noticeable development was the prominence of cryptocurrency-related phishing scams.

Banking 94

Banking Phishing Cryptocurrency Malware 94

Hot for Security

MAY 25, 2021

The Internet seems to be the indispensable medium in which we live, and at the same time, it has become an extension of our mind. Our internet-enabled devices are much more than gadgets or pieces of hardware.

Cybersecurity 124

Cybersecurity Identity Theft Digital transformation Media 124

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

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Banking 52

Banking Scams Advertising Cybercrime 52

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

Primarily, that includes any social media and email accounts, as well as associated financial instruments such as bank accounts and any cryptocurrencies. On July 15, a number of high-profile Twitter accounts were used to tweet out a bitcoin scam that earned more than $100,000 in a few hours.

Phishing 357

Phishing VPN Social Engineering Media 357

Krebs on Security

JULY 21, 2022

The term “pig butchering” refers to a time-tested, heavily scripted, and human-intensive process of using fake profiles on dating apps and social media to lure people into investing in elaborate scams. In a more visceral sense, pig butchering means fattening up a prey before the slaughter.

Scams 304

Scams Cryptocurrency Marketing Internet 304

Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

One might even say passwords are the fossil fuels powering most IT modernization: They’re ubiquitous because they are cheap and easy to use, but that means they also come with significant trade-offs — such as polluting the Internet with weaponized data when they’re leaked or stolen en masse. TARGETED PHISHING.

Passwords 356

Passwords Password Management Phishing Scams 356

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 10, 2018

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Cyber Attacks 82

Cyber Attacks Banking Cyber threats Phishing 82

SecureList

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Additionally, we looked at the phishing activity around gaming, specifically that related to cybersports tournaments, bookmakers, gaming marketplaces, and gaming platforms, and found numerous examples of scams that target gamers and esports fans. Key findings. Miners are programs that may adversely affect a computer’s productivity.

Mobile 96

Mobile Passwords Software Accountability 96

Webroot

JANUARY 7, 2022

In particular, we witnessed an increase in distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks and a surge in the usage of the internet of things (IoT). The cybercrime marketplace also continued to get more robust while the barrier to entry for malicious actors continued to drop. Cryptocurrency.

Cybercrime 105

Cybercrime Phishing Ransomware Cryptocurrency 105

Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

These individuals said they were only customers of the person who had access to Twitter’s internal employee tools, and were not responsible for the actual intrusion or bitcoin scams that took place that day. ALWAYS IN DISCORD. CONSPIRACY.

Hacking 292

Hacking Accountability Scams Media 292

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 “Intell on the Criminal Underground – Who’s Who in Cybercrime for ” Presentation – [PDF].

Cybercrime 96

Cybercrime Hacking Scams Ransomware 96

SecureList

AUGUST 23, 2021

Most threats uncovered on PC and mobile devices were adware, but dangerous malware was also present: from stealers to bankers, often leading to the loss of not just credentials but money, including cryptocurrency. This finely designed tournament page is nothing more than a scam that capitalizes on well-known and trusted brands.

Adware 112

Adware Mobile Phishing Malware 112

Security Affairs

MAY 8, 2020

It should be noted that some of the tech companies provide a wide range of Internet-related services and some of them, like cloud storages and email services, form separate categories. CERT-GIB’s findings indicate that phishing attack perpetrators have revised their so-called target pool. Balance of power.

Phishing 56

Phishing Spyware Banking Malware 56