Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Cybersecurity firm Mandiant (recently acquired by Google ) told Bloomberg that hackers working for the North Korean government have been copying resumes and profiles from leading job listing platforms LinkedIn and Indeed, as part of an elaborate scheme to land jobs at cryptocurrency firms. of spam and scams.

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Accountability Scams Artificial Intelligence Cryptocurrency 279

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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Social Engineering Mobile Cybercrime Passwords 326

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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Mobile Phishing Authentication Accountability 299

Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

ChronoPay specializes in providing access to the global credit card networks for “high risk” merchants — businesses involved in selling services online that tend to generate an unusually large number of chargebacks and reports of fraud, and hence have a higher risk of failure. Click to enlarge.

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Banking Marketing DDOS Risk 201

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2022

“The set of information referred to is inaccurate and outdated, and does not put our users and customers at risk.” ” asked Ohad Zaidenberg , founder of CTI League , a volunteer emergency response community that emerged in 2020 to help fight COVID-19 related scams. ” That statement may be 100 percent true.

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Data breaches Banking Cybercrime Marketing 270

Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

We’ve noted the gradual emergence of Bitcoin ATMs in scams previously; here, cryptocurrency ATMs are more popular as a payment method to SSNDOB than other dubious online services. Chainalysis also notes a potential connection between SSNDOB and another dark web market trading in credit cards which called it quits in 2021.

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