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. For several years, the #1 Cybercrime type has been Business Email Compromise followed by the #2 of Romance Scam.

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Scams Artificial Intelligence Identity Theft Data breaches 98

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 3, 2024

But first I want to share some more remarkable conclusions from the report: Charity scams that prey on concern about international conflicts and natural disasters are becoming more prevalent. Investment fraudsters look for victims on social media platforms. The most reported investment fraud products in the EU are cryptocurrencies.

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Scams Cryptocurrency Social Engineering Internet 91

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. SC Media broke down the potential. SC Media broke down the potential.

Cryptocurrency 69

Cryptocurrency Ransomware Banking Cybercrime 69

Digital Shadows

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Whether you’re a crypto-skeptic or a crypto-maximalist, it cannot be denied that the mostly unregulated cryptocurrency ecosystem is no stranger to fraud. To conduct attacks specifically linked to cryptocurrency, threat actors must usually cooperate within a web of associates—just like any other area of cyber crime.

Scams 40

Scams Cryptocurrency Marketing Advertising 40

Malwarebytes

MARCH 13, 2023

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has published its 2022 Internet Crime Report. The numbers are based on the complaints reported to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). These scams usually offer the victims large returns with minimal risk. Hacked social media accounts. billion in 2022, an increase of 183%.

Cryptocurrency 60

Cryptocurrency Scams Media Social Engineering 60

SC Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

Researchers found 167 counterfeit Android and iOS apps that attackers used to steal money from victims who believed they installed a financial trading, banking or cryptocurrency app. Carson said companies need better cyber hygiene via educating employees on ways to detect these scams. Photo by Justin Sullivan/Getty Images).

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Scams Cryptocurrency Social Engineering Banking 62

Malwarebytes

JUNE 6, 2022

. “Criminal actors are taking advantage of the crisis in Ukraine by posing as Ukrainian entities needing humanitarian aid or developing fundraising efforts, including monetary and cryptocurrency donations,” the FBI said. Malwarebytes Labs had seen its fair share of Ukraine charity-centric scam sites popping up. .”

Scams 84

Scams Cryptocurrency Phishing Banking 84

CyberSecurity Insiders

OCTOBER 4, 2022

million by the SEC as she failed to disclose the amount she earned for promoting a product related to cryptocurrency. In fact, she has also directed her legal team/s to sort out the matter with no media attention. Kim Kardashian, the reality TV star, was slapped with a fine of $1.26 Similarly, Ms.

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Cryptocurrency Scams Media Internet 112

CyberSecurity Insiders

MAY 18, 2022

. Tesla Chief Elon Musk, who intends to acquire social media giant Twitter for $44 billion, has put the company in a fix. It means in simple words that Musk, who owns Starlink Satellite Internet services, has to pay the said amount if he cannot pay the firm the promised amount or backs out of the transaction for any reason.

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Accountability Cybersecurity Scams Media 95

Krebs on Security

JULY 26, 2021

02, 2020, pitching him as a trustworthy cryptocurrency expert and advisor. Justice Department last week announced O’Connor’s arrest and indictment, his alleged role in the Twitter compromise was well covered in the media. Joseph “PlugwalkJoe” O’Connor, in a photo from a paid press release on Sept.

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Media Hacking Accountability Scams 319

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Media coverage understandably focused on GoDaddy’s admission that it suffered three different cyberattacks over as many years at the hands of the same hacking group. One multifactor option — physical security keys — appears to be immune to these advanced scams.

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Hacking Social Engineering Phishing Scams 268

CyberSecurity Insiders

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Facebook is intending to ban cryptocurrency related advertisements on its platform from November 2021, as they are leading to online scams and money loss schemes targeting to thousands of individuals using Facebook irrespective of their age.

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Advertising Scams Cryptocurrency Media 110

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 89

Scams Internet Internet Advertising 89

eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

According to statistics from the FBI’s 2021 Internet Crime Report , complaints to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) have been rising since 2017. This made a lot of sense, especially in the earlier days of the Internet where cybersecurity measures were nowhere near as robust as they are today. Individuals. Businesses.

Social Engineering 118

Social Engineering Energy and Utilities Phishing Scams 118

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

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. Digital wallet phish attempts are rampant on social media, and we expect this to rise. Below, we dig into a few of those. Ransomware supply chain triple-threat.

Cryptocurrency 114

Cryptocurrency Backups Phishing Password Management 114

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.

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VPN Scams Education Internet 90

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 118

Artificial Intelligence Banking Scams Cybercrime 118

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. We still have a long way to go until we re-establish our peace of mind as we emerge from the health crisis.

Cybersecurity 124

Cybersecurity Identity Theft Digital transformation Media 124

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2018

An entrepreneur and virtual currency investor is suing AT&T for $224 million, claiming the wireless provider was negligent when it failed to prevent thieves from hijacking his mobile account and stealing millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies. On June 11, 2017, Terpin’s phone went dead. A copy of his complaint is here (PDF).

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Mobile Cryptocurrency Accountability Authentication 229

SecureList

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Thus, during the World Cup a brand-new scam appeared: it offered users to win a newly released iPhone 14 for predicting match outcomes. These sites referenced public figures and humanitarian groups, offering to accept cash in cryptocurrency, something that should have raised a red flag in itself.

Phishing 90

Phishing Scams Accountability Energy and Utilities 90

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

For now at least, they appear to be focusing primarily on companies in the financial, telecommunications and social media industries. Zack Allen is director of threat intelligence for ZeroFOX , a Baltimore-based company that helps customers detect and respond to risks found on social media and other digital channels.

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Phishing VPN Social Engineering Media 357

SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

BEC or Email Account Compromise (EAC) was known as the $26 billion scam in 2019. The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) tallied over $1.8 The basics of the BEC scam are explained in a July 2021 SecureWorld article that interviewed Stephen Dougherty of the U.S. Understanding BEC scams.

Scams 76

Scams Social Engineering Accountability Ransomware 76

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.” APWG’s reports revealed that in Q1 2021, the financial institution (24,9%), social media (23,6%), webmail/SaaS (19,6%) industries were most frequently victimized by phishing attacks.

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Phishing Advertising Cryptocurrency Encryption 103

Appknox

JUNE 23, 2022

Navigating the internet in 2022 is more dangerous than ever for Australian netizens. Apple iOS users often fall prey to mobile scams; around 30.1% Social media-based scams are increasing as the average Australian uses their smartphone to connect unilaterally with multiple social networking services.

Social Engineering 92

Social Engineering Mobile Scams Engineering 92

Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2022

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. The ark-x2[.]org

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Scams Cryptocurrency Media Hacking 192

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

Schneier on Security

APRIL 10, 2023

But while it’s an easy experiment to run, it misses the real risk of large language models (LLMs) writing scam emails. Today’s human-run scams aren’t limited by the number of people who respond to the initial email contact. So why were scammers still sending such obviously dubious emails?

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Phishing Scams Surveillance Internet 287

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

APRIL 6, 2022

In fact, the group often announces its hacks on social media. The smash-and-grab attacks by LAPSUS$ obscure some of the group’s less public activities, which according to Microsoft include targeting individual user accounts at cryptocurrency exchanges to drain crypto holdings. ADVANCED PERSISTENT TEENAGERS.

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Social Engineering Phishing Engineering Accountability 243

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.

Hacking 292

Hacking Accountability Scams Media 292

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. The scheme encourages users to log in using their social media credentials. Key findings.

Mobile 96

Mobile Passwords Software Accountability 96

eSecurity Planet

APRIL 21, 2021

From news of a collage selling for almost $70 million at Christie’s auction house to a portrayal of Janet Yellen and Morpheus rapping about cryptocurrency on SNL , the current craze is all about non-fungible tokens (NFTs). NFT-mania, pronounced nifty , is upon us with little time to prepare. What is a non-fungible token (NFT)?

Cryptocurrency 87

Cryptocurrency Marketing Accountability Scams 87

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). Cryptocurrency. There was no shortage of discussion surrounding cryptocurrency and its security flaws. The rise of exchange attacks grew, and quick scams reigned. Supply chain.

Cybercrime 105

Cybercrime Phishing Ransomware Cryptocurrency 105

Adam Levin

JANUARY 2, 2019

It’s still a relatively uncommon exploit, but if you are visibly in possession of something hackers want–whether it’s a cool “OG” handle on social media, cryptocurrency or the codes to launch nuclear war–the assaults on attractive targets will increase in 2019.

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Cybersecurity Identity Theft Passwords Password Management 157

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. All they ask for is to share your social media handle or email and complete a couple of assignments. Conclusion and advice.

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Adware Mobile Phishing Malware 112

Security Affairs

MAY 29, 2019

Wi-Fi are now installed in each and every place regardless of the size of the place; from international airports to small kiosks, you can find an internet connection everywhere. This data may include your personal and secretive details like emails, social media accounts, passwords, bank details, and other crucial stuff. Browse Safely.

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Hacking VPN Passwords Internet 105