Identity IQ

JANUARY 19, 2022

5 Data Breach Trends to Anticipate This Year. In its recent annual Data Breach Industry Forecast, credit reporting agency Experian made five predictions for cybercrime and data breach trends to expect this year. Here are five data breach and cybercrime trends to anticipate this year.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 17, 2021

In December last year, we reported how the email and mailing addresses of some 270,000 Ledger customers had been published on a hacking forum following a data breach. At the time we warned users of the hardware cryptocurrency wallet to watch out for phishing scams that might attempt to steal users’ credentials.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

that reboots locked devices Ymir ransomware, a new stealthy ransomware grow in the wild Amazon discloses employee data breach after May 2023 MOVEit attacks A new fileless variant of Remcos RAT observed in the wild A surge in Pro-Russia cyberattacks after decision to monitor North Korean Troops in Ukraine U.S.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Verdict: Partially fulfilled Evolution and market dynamics of Bitcoin mixers and cleaning services In 2024, there was no significant increase in the number of services advertising cryptocurrency “cleaning” solutions. It is worth noting that a breach does not necessarily have to affect critical assets to be destructive.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 15, 2023

Alright, how many of you saw a cryptocurrency ad on TV in 2022? Now the important question: how many of you got scammed in some sort of way by cryptocurrency or another type of investment? Oh, yeah, everyone did. How many of you acted on those ads and actually purchased crypto? Probably some of you. According to the U.S.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 1, 2025

Phishing In phishing scams, cybercriminals trick people and businesses into handing over sensitive information like credit card numbers or login details for vital online accounts. The hackers hijacked the channels to spread cryptocurrency scams, while deleting some of the groups old videos in the process.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2024

A California man who lost $100,000 in a 2021 SIM-swapping attack is suing the unknown holder of a cryptocurrency wallet that harbors his stolen funds. Dellone says the crooks then used his phone number to break into his account at Coinbase and siphon roughly $100,000 worth of cryptocurrencies.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 20, 2023

Tax Season Scams: How to Protect Your Identity IdentityIQ While it’s important to be on high alert and protect your identity all year long, tax season is an especially vulnerable time. Every tax season, identity thieves run a variety of scams to get their hands on taxpayers’ personal information. It’s probably a scam.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

You just knew 2022 was going to be The Year of Crypto Grift when two of the world’s most popular antivirus makers — Norton and Avira — kicked things off by installing cryptocurrency mining programs on customer computers. The now-defunct and always phony cryptocurrency trading platform xtb-market[.]com,

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Heimadal Security

MARCH 2, 2023

A phishing campaign poses as a Trezor data breach notification order to steal a target’s cryptocurrency wallet and assets. Trezor is a hardware cryptocurrency wallet that allows users to store their cryptocurrency offline rather than in cloud-based or device-based wallets.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 14, 2025

Top cybercrime categories: Phishing/spoofing: 193,407 complaints Extortion: 86,415 complaints Personal data breaches: 64,882 complaints Cryptocurrency-related scams: Nearly 150,000 complaints involved cryptocurrency, accounting for $9.3 billion in losses. billion in losses.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Security experts from Cisco Talos have uncovered two recent sextortion scam campaigns that appear to leverage on the Necurs botnet infrastructure. The scammer demands a payment in cryptocurrency for not sharing the video. “Talos extracted all messages from these two sextortion campaigns that were received by SpamCop from Aug.

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Scams Data breaches Education Advertising 107

Krebs on Security

MARCH 5, 2024

On March 1, a cryptocurrency address that security researchers had already mapped to BlackCat received a single transaction worth approximately $22 million. “They are exit scamming their affiliates. “The affiliates still have this data, and they’re mad they didn’t receive this money, Smilyanets told Wired.com.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 22, 2022

For several years, the #1 Cybercrime type has been Business Email Compromise followed by the #2 of Romance Scam. The criminals have discovered how many people don't understand investing in cryptocurrency and have turned Investment Scams into a new money factory. . #1 Personal Data Breach. Corporate Data Breach.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

On July 20, the attackers turned their sights on internet infrastructure giant Cloudflare.com , and the intercepted credentials show at least five employees fell for the scam (although only two employees also provided the crucial one-time MFA code). Image: Cloudflare.com. ” On July 28 and again on Aug. According to an Aug. In an Aug.

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Hot for Security

MAY 14, 2021

Traditional sextortion scams are indeed popular, but users are also becoming familiar with the ruse, especially after a year of social distancing and the use of video-conference tools. ” For the moment, the two crypto wallets have received no transfers.

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Graham Cluley

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

And who is being faked to promote cryptocurrency scams? Don’t minimise your Teams Meeting video call too hastily, you might reveal your dirty secrets! Would you be prepared to pay for Facebook and Instagram?

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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.

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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

JUNE 30, 2020

Group-IB discovered thousands of personal records of users from multiple countries exposed in a targeted multi-stage bitcoin scam. The new scheme is similar to the “Bitcoin Evolution” scam, that Group-IB reported on in Feb. The source of the leak has not been established yet.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 12, 2025

cannabis dispensary STIIIZY disclosed a data breach A novel PayPal phishing campaign hijacks accounts Banshee macOS stealer supports new evasion mechanisms Researchers disclosed details of a now-patched Samsung zero-click flaw Phishers abuse CrowdStrike brand targeting job seekers with cryptominer China-linked APT group MirrorFace targets Japan U.S.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 24, 2023

Apple patches three zero-days T-Mobile spills billing information to other customers Involved in a data breach? Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Emergency update!

Cryptocurrency 105

Cryptocurrency Data breaches Scams Mobile 105

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.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 6, 2022

Many organizations are already struggling to combat cybersecurity threats from ransomware purveyors and state-sponsored hacking groups, both of which tend to take days or weeks to pivot from an opportunistic malware infection to a full blown data breach. The flash scam netted the perpetrators more than $100,000 in the ensuing hours.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 24, 2025

Malware AMOS and Lumma stealers actively spread to Reddit users MalwareBytes Reddit posts (directly on reddit.com ) by threat actors on subreddits frequented by cryptocurrency traders link to information stealing malware.

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Naked Security

JUNE 23, 2022

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

from Bybit, it is the largest cryptocurrency heist ever Apple removes iCloud encryption in UK following backdoor demand B1acks Stash released 1 Million credit cards U.S. Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. Lazarus APT stole $1.5B

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2020

The Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange is forcing users to reset their passwords following a data leak. . Another bad news for the community of the virtual currencies communities, the Poloniex cryptocurrency exchange has forced its users to reset their passwords following a data leak. . charlysatoshi.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

In the world of online scams, criminals care about one thing: Your money. Earlier this year, a woman in Tennessee was fooled in an online dating scam by a thief who stole $390,000 of her money. By selling fake raffle tickets for the promotion, the scammers raked in $438,000 worth of cryptocurrency. Do use a cybersecurity app.

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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. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter, cyber security).

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Security Affairs

JUNE 13, 2021

million customers impacted. million customers impacted. million customers impacted. Follow me on Twitter: @securityaffairs and Facebook. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, newsletter).

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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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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 25, 2022

Chasing cryptocurrency through cyberspace, with Brian Carter: Lock and Code S03E26. Restaurant platform SevenRooms confirms data breach. Millions of Gemini cryptocurrency exchange user details leaked. Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: 4 over-hyped security vulnerabilities of 2022.

Cryptocurrency 86

Cryptocurrency Banking Data breaches Ransomware 86

Hot for Security

JUNE 17, 2021

In December last year, we reported how the email and mailing addresses of some 270,000 Ledger customers had been published on a hacking forum following a data breach. At the time we warned users of the hardware cryptocurrency wallet to watch out for phishing scams that might attempt to steal users’ credentials.

Cryptocurrency 52

Cryptocurrency Data breaches Scams Phishing 52

Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2022

Cryptocurrency wallet attacks. People new to cryptocurrency often gravitate to services which take the hassle out of setting everything up. Some folks may feel the above process isn’t as secure as storing their cryptocurrency on standalone devices. Below, we dig into a few of those. Ransomware supply chain triple-threat.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

We highlighted the growing popularity of cryptocurrencies and anticipated an increase in crypto scams. The forecast correctly emphasized that users had become more aware of crypto and would not easily fall for primitive scams. Ransomware groups and destructive activity: True.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 12, 2020

hacked, data of 600k users available for sale Updated: Italian email provider Email.it supports the Secure Boot Fake Cisco ‘Critical Update used in phishing campaign to steal WebEx credentials Hackers accessed staff mailboxes at Italian bank Monte dei Paschi SFO discloses data breach following the hack of 2 of its websites.

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