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Malvertising Is a Cybercrime Heavyweight, Not an Underdog

SecureWorld News

A stepping stone to impactful cybercrime This tactic has tangible real-world implications. A DNS firewall and a classic antivirus are somewhat underused yet effective security tools that will come in handy. The silver lining is that such scams are fairly easy to avoid.

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Saving World Health Day: UNICC and Group-IB take down scam campaign impersonating the World Health Organization

Security Affairs

UNICC and Group-IB detected and took down a massive multistage scam campaign circulating online on April 7, World Health Day. Group-IB then took down all the scam domains. Further investigation revealed that the 134 domains identified and blocked by Group-IB are part of a wider scam network attributed to a single scammer collective.

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Proactive Intelligence: A Paradigm Shift In Cyber Defense

Security Boulevard

Since bad actors need to communicate back to their C2, digital exhaust often takes the form of DNS records , which if monitored properly allows organizations to detect anomalous patterns and stop the communications, and thus the breach, before the criminals can do any major harm. That's where technologies like protective DNS come in.

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US Harbors Prolific Malicious Link Shortening Service

Krebs on Security

The top-level domain for the United States — US — is home to thousands of newly-registered domains tied to a malicious link shortening service that facilitates malware and phishing scams, new research suggests. The findings come close on the heels of a report that identified.US domains registered daily.US

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Can your business stop social engineering attacks?

Webroot

And as it turns out, those instincts are so strong that they can override our sixth sense about cybercrime. So how do you spot social engineering scams? But even if the message is coming from a legitimate organization doesn’t mean it isn’t a scam with criminals spoofing an email or impersonating a business. The problem?

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No SOCKS, No Shoes, No Malware Proxy Services!

Krebs on Security

The underground cybercrime forums are now awash in pleas from people who are desperately seeking a new supplier of abundant, cheap, and reliably clean proxies to restart their businesses. Historical DNS records from Farsight Security show angrycoders.net formerly included the subdomain “smollalex.angrycoders[.]net”

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“FudCo” Spam Empire Tied to Pakistani Software Firm

Krebs on Security

In May 2015, KrebsOnSecurity briefly profiled “ The Manipulaters ,” the name chosen by a prolific cybercrime group based in Pakistan that was very publicly selling spam tools and a range of services for crafting, hosting and deploying malicious email. One of several current Fudtools sites run by The Manipulaters.

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