Trend Micro

JULY 27, 2023

Trend Micro’s Mobile Application Reputation Service (MARS) team discovered two new related Android malware families involved in cryptocurrency-mining and financially-motivated scam campaigns targeting Android users.

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The Hacker News

MARCH 21, 2022

Social engineering attacks leveraging a combination of romantic lures and cryptocurrency fraud have been luring unsuspecting victims into installing fake apps by taking advantage of legitimate iOS features like TestFlight and Web Clips. This style of

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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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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 28, 2022

Cryptocurrency scammers love social media—especially Meta’s platforms. Hundreds of millions of dollars were scammed from U.S. The post Fake Cash Scams Thrive on Facebook and Insta—FTC appeared first on Security Boulevard. consumers in 2021.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Bryan hijacked social media and bitcoin accounts using a mix of voice phishing or “ vishing ” attacks and “ SIM swapping ,” a form of fraud that involves bribing or tricking employees at mobile phone companies. Interestingly, the conspiracy appears to have unraveled over a business dispute between the two men.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Daniel James Junk (22) of Portland was sentenced to 72 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme that resulted in the theft of millions of dollars of cryptocurrency using a SIM swapping. Once hijacked a SIM, the attacker can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts.

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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. of attacks.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Whether you’ve been naughty or nice, someone will try and stuff a scam down your chimney either way. Social media shopping scams. Often, these scams lead consumers to participate in an online survey that is designed to steal personal information. Work from home scams. Charity scams. Gift card generators.

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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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Malwarebytes

JULY 19, 2022

Together with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the FBI has released a warning about cybercriminals creating fraudulent cryptocurrency investment apps in order to defraud cryptocurrency investors. Mobile apps. Stay safe, everyone!

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 20, 2022

If you’re a user of the Gemini cryptocurrency exchange, it’s time to be on your guard against phishing attacks. Breaches in cryptocurrency land are always a major issue. Some folks have their life savings and investments in these realms, and cryptocurrency/Web3 phishing generally has been running riot for some time now.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 1, 2022

Security research carried out by CloudSEK has found that over 3000+ mobile applications were exposing Twitter’s API keys, thus providing access to twitter accounts fraudulently. The post Twitter API Keys exposed by over 3000+ mobile applications appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 26, 2022

Rogue Google ads caused no end of misery for cryptocurrency enthusiasts, costing them roughly $4.31 This is an astonishing slice of cryptocurrency cash to lose for the sake of clicking on something in a search engine. They’ve been the stomping ground of exploit kits, ransomware, fake tech support scams, and much more for years.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A 24-year-old New York man who bragged about helping to steal more than $20 million worth of cryptocurrency from a technology executive has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud. A SIM card is the tiny, removable chip in a mobile device that allows it to connect to the provider’s network. Nicholas Truglia, holding bottle.

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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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Security Boulevard

APRIL 15, 2024

A former Amazon engineer who scammed more than $12 million from two decentralized cryptocurrencies exchanges in 2022 was sentenced to three years in prison in a case that the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) called the first conviction for hacking a “smart contract.”

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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 Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Once payments are collected from the victims, they make previously created resources vanish and set up the next new campaign – this is why investigators named the group “Digital Smoke” According to the latest report by FTC released last week called “The Top Scams of 2022” people reported losing $8.8

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

In 2020, Kaspersky mobile products and technologies detected: 5,683,694 malicious installation packages, 156,710 new mobile banking Trojans, 20,708 new mobile ransomware Trojans. Pandemic theme in mobile threats. The mobile malware Trojan-Ransom.AndroidOS.Agent.aq The year in figures. Trends of the year.

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Heimadal Security

MAY 13, 2021

Trust Wallet and MetaMask wallet users are being targeted in what looks like an ongoing and aggressive Twitter phishing campaign created in order to steal cryptocurrency funds. MetaMask and Trust Wallet are two of the mobile apps that allow users to create wallets in order to store, buy, send, and receive cryptocurrency and NFTs.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2023

But O’Connor also pleaded guilty in a separate investigation involving a years-long spree of cyberstalking and cryptocurrency theft enabled by “ SIM swapping ,” a crime wherein fraudsters trick a mobile provider into diverting a customer’s phone calls and text messages to a device they control.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2022

A recent spate of SMS phishing attacks from one cybercriminal group has spawned a flurry of breach disclosures from affected companies, which are all struggling to combat the same lingering security threat: The ability of scammers to interact directly with employees through their mobile devices. Image: Cloudflare.com. According to an Aug.

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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!

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Coinbase is the world’s second-largest cryptocurrency exchange, with roughly 68 million users from over 100 countries. In each case, the phishers manually would push a button that caused the phishing site to ask visitors for more information, such as the one-time password from their mobile app. SIFTING COINBASE FOR ACTIVE USERS.

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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. 14, 2021, by executing an unauthorized SIM-swap that involved an employee at his mobile phone provider who switched Dellone’s phone number over to a new device the attackers controlled.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 7, 2018

Police in Florida have arrested a 25-year-old man accused of being part of a multi-state cyber fraud ring that hijacked mobile phone numbers in online attacks that siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from victims.

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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.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 16, 2021

A 24-year-old New York man who bragged about helping to steal more than $20 million worth of cryptocurrency from a technology executive has pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud.

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Cryptocurrency Scams Mobile Technology 97

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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CyberSecurity Insiders

DECEMBER 28, 2021

All those using cryptocurrency wallets, you better be aware of this crypto scam that is being spread through Telegram. Information is out that some hackers in the name of ‘Smokes Night’ are stealing cryptocurrency from the users’ wallets by spreading Echelon Malware on Telegram.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Romance scams are labor-intensive and time-consuming schemes to run. They can be lucrative, pulling in millions in stolen cryptocurrency, but they also can end up going nowhere if the targeted victim becomes suspicious or the bad actor decides there won’t be a payoff.

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Bleeping Computer

JULY 28, 2023

Two new Android malware families named 'CherryBlos' and 'FakeTrade' were discovered on Google Play, aiming to steal cryptocurrency credentials and funds or conduct scams. [.]

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 9, 2020

Crooks have stolen tens of millions of dollars and other valuable commodities from thousands of consumers via “SIM swapping,” a particularly invasive form of fraud that involves tricking a target’s mobile carrier into transferring someone’s wireless service to a device they control. But the U.S.

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CSO Magazine

OCTOBER 5, 2021

These scams exploit the fact that many businesses and organizations use cell phones to identify individuals for a host of accounts aside from mobile phone service. These proposed rules address the growing scourge of so-called SIM swapping and port-out fraud.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 16, 2023

The FBI has issued a warning that cybercriminals are embedding malicious code in mobile beta-testing apps in attempts to defraud potential victims. In an earlier warning the FBI focused on scammers that haunt forums and comments sections, looking for victims who have lost cryptocurrency to fraud, scams, and theft.

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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.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

A SIM, or Subscriber Identity Module, is the little chip that goes inside a phone and ties that phone to a particular account at a particular mobile provider. How do Phone Company Insiders enable these scams? They don't actually need to know what model of phone it is, or where in the world it is.

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