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A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew

Krebs on Security

Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. million in an elaborate voice phishing attack. The phishing domain used to steal roughly $4.7 Image: Shutterstock, iHaMoo. “ Annie.”

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Feds Charge Five Men in ‘Scattered Spider’ Roundup

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A visual depiction of the attacks by the SMS phishing group known as Scattered Spider, and Oktapus. Some SMS phishing messages told employees their VPN credentials were expiring and needed to be changed; other phishing messages advised employees about changes to their upcoming work schedule. com and ouryahoo-okta[.]com.

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US DoJ charges five alleged members of the Scattered Spider cybercrime gang

Security Affairs

Justice Department charged five suspects linked to the Scattered Spider cybercrime gang with wire fraud conspiracy. Justice Department charged five alleged members of the cybercrime gang Scattered Spider (also known as UNC3944 , 0ktapus ) with conspiracy to commit wire fraud. ” reads the press release published by DoJ. .

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CrowdStrike 2025 Global Threat Report: 51-Second Breaches Shake Cybercrime

eSecurity Planet

The business of cybercrime Cybercriminals are no longer disorganized hackers. The report details how threat actors harness automation, artificial intelligence, and advanced social engineering to scale their operations. They are now running highly efficient operations that mirror legitimate business models.

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FBI: Spike in Hacked Police Emails, Fake Subpoenas

Krebs on Security

One English-speaking cybercriminal who goes by the nicknames “ Pwnstar ” and “ Pwnipotent ” has been selling fake EDR services on both Russian-language and English cybercrime forums. “This is social engineering at the highest level and there will be failed attempts at times. . Don’t be discouraged.

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Attackers use CSS to create evasive phishing messages

Security Affairs

Threat actors exploit Cascading Style Sheets (CSS) to bypass spam filters and detection engines, and track users actions and preferences. Using CSS properties like text-indent , they conceal phishing text from victims while bypassing security parsers. The following phishing message impersonates the Blue Cross Blue Shield organization.

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Happy 15th Anniversary, KrebsOnSecurity!

Krebs on Security

Maybe it’s indelicate to celebrate the birthday of a cybercrime blog that mostly publishes bad news, but happily many of 2024’s most engrossing security stories were about bad things happening to bad guys. Image: Shutterstock, Dreamansions. KrebsOnSecurity.com turns 15 years old today!

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