The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Amini Pedram Amini , Chief Scientist, Opswat The sophistication and abuse of AI are escalating as costs drop, driving a surge in ML-assisted scams and attacks on physical devices. Dooley Doug Dooley , COO, Data Theorem In 2025, cybersecurity threats will escalate across APIs, cloud setups, supply chains, and cryptocurrency.

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Digital Shadows

JANUARY 27, 2025

Streamlined RaaS Operations: The ransomware-as-a-service (RaaS) ecosystem has become more efficient, with affiliates adopting new, more specialized strategies like help-desk scams to accelerate and refine their attacks. Affiliates using IABs for access need to have non-traceable cryptocurrency and often a guarantor to facilitate purchase.

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SecureWorld News

JULY 27, 2025

Wholesalers and so-called fraud shops clean and index those records, advertising credit card dumps or "fullz" (full identity packages) on dozens of multilingual darknet markets. These comforts keep the dark economy humming even as sites vanish in exit scams or police takedowns. The marketplace is growing at an incredible rate.

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Digital Shadows

MARCH 12, 2025

These fake accounts promote fraudulent offers like free event tickets or gambling top-ups, exploiting user trust and luring victims into phishing scams. A breach leaking unfinished content, such as video game prototypes or film footage, can derail marketing campaigns and cause significant financial losses.

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 17, 2025

Per 6sense, McAfee Cloud Security makes up 12.47% of the worldwide antivirus market share. McAfees most basic plan consists of a VPN and text scam detection features that Microsoft Defender lacks. Its features include ransomware protection, scam prevention, and cryptomining protection. 5 Pricing: 4.7/5 5 Customer support: 4.4/5

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2025

Podcast TechstrongTV - Twitch Library Related Sites Techstrong Group Cloud Native Now DevOps.com Security Boulevard Techstrong Research Techstrong TV Techstrong.tv Podcast DevOps Chat DevOps Dozen DevOps TV Copyright © 2025 Techstrong Group Inc.

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

Attackers exploiting cloud accounts pose significant risks, targeting virtual machines (VMs) for activities like cryptocurrency mining, leading to unexpected costs for organizations. ” APLHV disbanded in late December 2023 after conducting an exit scam against its affiliates.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 27, 2025

The president fired all advisors from the Department of Homeland Security’s Cyber Safety Review Board, called for the creation of a strategic cryptocurrency reserve, and voided a Biden administration action that sought to reduce the risks that artificial intelligence poses to consumers, workers and national security. securities law.

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Hacker's King

JULY 3, 2025

Ethereum ranks among the most recognized cryptocurrencies in the world, only behind Bitcoin. In addition, it possesses a cryptocurrency called Ether (ETH). What Distinguishes Ethereum from Other Cryptocurrencies? As a cryptocurrency, Ethereum has features that distinguish it from others. Ethereum 2.0:

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Cryptocurrency Scams Technology Marketing 52

Krebs on Security

MARCH 11, 2024

Borrowing from the playbook of ransomware purveyors, the darknet narcotics bazaar Incognito Market has begun extorting all of its vendors and buyers, threatening to publish cryptocurrency transaction and chat records of users who refuse to pay a fee ranging from $100 to $20,000. “And yes, this is an extortion!!!!

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

authorities today announced criminal charges and financial sanctions against two Russian men accused of stealing nearly $17 million worth of virtual currencies in a series of phishing attacks throughout 2017 and 2018 that spoofed websites for some of the most popular cryptocurrency exchanges. Separately, the U.S.

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Cryptocurrency Phishing Accountability Cybercrime 363

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Fraudsters redirected email and web traffic destined for several cryptocurrency trading platforms over the past week. The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting employees at GoDaddy , the world’s largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. 13, with an attack on cryptocurrency trading platform liquid.com.

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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.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 11, 2022

With more people looking to cash in on hype surrounding the cryptocurrency market than ever before and an increasing digital workforce which may lack awareness of network security set-ups, cybercriminal activity remains rampant. The post Which phishing scams are trending in 2022? appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Webroot

MAY 4, 2021

Typically, when cryptocurrency values change, one would expect to see changes in crypto-related cybercrime. It’s very possible for a Bitcoin ransom to lose value over time due to market flux, making it less profitable than it might otherwise appear. So, what’s the real story?

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Cryptocurrency Cybercrime Marketing Scams 143

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Resecurity has identified an increasing trend of cryptocurrency counterfeiting, the experts found several tokens impersonating major brands, government organizations and national fiat currencies. Resecurity has identified an increasing trend of cryptocurrency counterfeiting.

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Cryptocurrency Scams Government Banking 139

Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2022

This final post on the Conti conversations explores different schemes that Conti pursued to invest in and steal cryptocurrencies. This wealth allowed Conti to do things that regular investors couldn’t — such as moving the price of cryptocurrencies in one direction or the other. “Cryptocurrency article contest!

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2024

Federal authorities charged two individuals with operating the dark web marketplace Empire Market that facilitated over $430 million in illegal transactions. currency on AlphaBay before starting Empire Market. “They began operating Empire Market on Feb. “They began operating Empire Market on Feb.

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SC Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

For the uninitiated, NFTs are unique tokens that accompany original and collectible digital artwork or videos that can be sold or traded as a form of cryptocurrency, with transactions registered on the blockchain. No wonder scam artists are taking notice and jumping on the bandwagon. billion in 2020. “We

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Zero Day

JUNE 1, 2021

Promoters of a suspected, high-profile exit scam are now in the hot seat.

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Marketing Cryptocurrency Scams 124

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. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked.

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Cryptocurrency Cybercrime Computers and Electronics Scams 331

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 25, 2018

The sextortion email scam last month that invoked a real password used by each recipient and threatened to release embarrassing Webcam videos almost certainly was not the work of one criminal or even one group of criminals. In early June 2018, uscourtsgov-dot-com was associated with a Sigma ransomware scam delivered via spam.

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Identity IQ

MAY 9, 2022

What are NFT Scams? Most NFT scams happen when a bad actor steals a participant’s cryptocurrency wallet login or tricks a buyer into believing they have successfully purchased or sold a legitimate NFT. Here’s a Rundown of the Most Common NFT Scams and How to Help Avoid Them. IdentityIQ. Watch out for Chats on Discord.

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Scams Cryptocurrency Marketing Education 105

Malwarebytes

APRIL 18, 2024

Europol and its associates have arrested 9 people in conjunction with a cannabis investment scam known as “JuicyFields” The suspects used social media to lure investors to their website. Canada, and the soon-to-be regulated markets of the European Union are spearheading this revolution with unprecedented swiftness.

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Scams Marketing Cryptocurrency Banking 119

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2022

” asked Ohad Zaidenberg , founder of CTI League , a volunteer emergency response community that emerged in 2020 to help fight COVID-19 related scams. . “Is there one person from our community that think sending cease and desist letter to a hackers forum operator is a good idea?,” “Who does it?

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Bleeping Computer

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

The Security Service of Ukraine (SBU) has taken down a network of six call centers in Lviv, used by a ring of scammers to defraud cryptocurrency and stock market investors worldwide. [.].

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Cryptocurrency Scams Marketing 75

Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The DOJ created NexFundAI, a false cryptocurrency company and token, in a sting that nabbed 19 people and companies accused of scamming investors by falsely creating the illusion of activity around their crypto and then selling at the inflated price in what investigators call "pump and dump" and "market maker" schemes.

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Scams Cryptocurrency Marketing Security Awareness 75

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. Also in the 1990s, the first online scams appeared. Phishing and scams: current types of fraud. They just need to sign up and pay a small fee. Distribution.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

The cyberattacks against the cryptocurrency industry are a profitable business for threat actors, according to the experts, $12.1 billion worth of cryptocurrencies have been stolen in the last decade. “Cryptocurrency crime stands in direct proportion to the size of the cryptocurrency market.

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Cryptocurrency Scams Marketing Hacking 124

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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Phishing Mobile Authentication Accountability 355

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 10, 2024

We have seen several high-profile accounts that were taken over on X (formerly Twitter) only to be used for cryptocurrency related promotional activities, like expressing the approval of exchange-traded funds (ETFs). A spot Bitcoin ETF will buy the cryptocurrency directly, “on the spot”, at its current price, throughout the day.

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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?

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Cryptocurrency Ransomware Banking Cybercrime 92

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 20, 2022

Non-fungible tokens (NFTs) are the new player in the financial investment market. Cryptocurrency has been subjected to a rapidly changing balance of laws for the government to try and control it through regulation. NFTs are cryptocurrencies, and so their security is the same as the security of the crypto wallet. Staying ahead.

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Cryptocurrency Marketing Scams Government 127

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 18, 2022

According to Elliptic , a company that offers risk solutions for cryptoassets, the unknown UniCC administrators have made an estimated $358M USD in cryptocurrency for selling stolen credit card details. The underground market accepts cryptocurrency payments of Bitcoin, Litecoin, Ether, and Dash. A little bit about UniCC.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

by using their brands and market reputation to defraud consumers. billion to scams. billion to scams. A FINRA survey points to health, marital and trust problems resulting from financial scams. A FINRA survey points to health, marital and trust problems resulting from financial scams. and the U.K billion in the U.S

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Scams Mobile Marketing Banking 98

Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2021

The scam artist John Bernard (left) in a recent Zoom call, and a photo of John Clifton Davies from 2015. Hempton Business Management’s only presence on LinkedIn appears to be a help wanted ad from a few weeks ago, for a marketing position at an office in Kyiv, Ukraine. After eluding justice in the U.K., Hemptonllp[.]com

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IT Security Guru

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

In recent years, the cryptocurrency industry has seen an explosion in popularity. Despite this, cryptocurrencies remain volatile, with even the big hitters like Bitcoin seeing wild spikes in value over short periods of time. The way these scams work is fairly simple, but they can be devastatingly effective. Join the Community.

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