SecureList

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Review of last year’s predictions The number of services providing AV evasion for malware (cryptors) will increase We continuously monitor underground markets for the emergence of new “cryptors,” which are tools specifically designed to obfuscate the code within malware samples.

Marketing

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

“Operation Serengeti (2 September – 31 October) targeted criminals behind ransomware, business email compromise (BEC), digital extortion and online scams – all identified as prominent threats in the 2024 Africa Cyber Threat Assessment Report.” Nigerian authorities arrested a man behind a $300K crypto scam.

Scams

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

That investigation detailed how the 38-year-old Shefel adopted the nickname Rescator while working as vice president of payments at ChronoPay , a Russian financial company that paid spammers to advertise fake antivirus scams, male enhancement drugs and knockoff pharmaceuticals. “I’m also godfather of his second son.”

Advertising

SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Last year saw a 110% rise in cybercrime in the lead up to Valentine's Day. And 2025 will be no different, as increasingly sophisticated online hackers seek to take advantage of Valentine's themed email traffic, social media advertisements, or marketing campaigns, and exploit heightened emotions and a desire to connect.

Scams

SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In a significant victory against cybercrime, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) , the seized domains were actively facilitating the sale of phishing kits, scam pages, and other fraud tools, which were then used by transnational organized crime groups to conduct business email compromise (BEC) schemes. According to the U.S.

Phishing

SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Cybercrime has been steadily on the rise for the past years. Localization is a combination of measures aimed at adapting your business, product, and messaging to the requirements of the local market and tastes of the local customers. Nearly 3 billion records were stolen in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.,

Marketing

Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Political ads could be hiding online scams, many people feel, and the election, they say, will likely fall victim to some type of “cyber interference.” 52% are “very concerned” or “concerned” about “falling prey to a scam when interacting with political messages.”

Scams

Security Affairs

MAY 23, 2025

These packages were then shared with national authorities in the framework of the Joint Cybercrime Action Taskforce, hosted at Europols headquarters, to enable targeted investigations.” ” said Edvardas ileris, Head of Europols European Cybercrime Centre. ” reads the report published by Europol.

Cybercrime

Krebs on Security

APRIL 10, 2025

But experts say these groups are now directly targeting customers of international financial institutions, while dramatically expanding their cybercrime infrastructure and support staff. Phishers using multiple virtualized Android devices to orchestrate and distribute RCS-based scam campaigns. Image: Prodaft. Image: Prodaft.

Phishing

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

“They employ questionable tactics, such as deceptive marketing that highlights time-limited offers and countdowns, creating a false sense of urgency to pressure users into making hasty decisions. Similar scams were reported globally. ” reads the report published McAfee. ” concludes the report.

Social Engineering

Malwarebytes

MARCH 20, 2025

This blog post was co-authored with Elie Berreby, Senior SEO Strategist Criminals are highly interested in online marketing and advertising tools that they can leverage as part of their ongoing malware campaigns.

Scams

Malwarebytes

MAY 1, 2025

Phishing In phishing scams, cybercriminals trick people and businesses into handing over sensitive information like credit card numbers or login details for vital online accounts. The hackers hijacked the channels to spread cryptocurrency scams, while deleting some of the groups old videos in the process.

Small Business

SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

Misinformation and market manipulation : Deepfake videos of CEOs or government officials making false statements can manipulate stock prices or incite public panic. External threats: Disinformation and scams Misinformation campaigns: Deepfakes are increasingly used to spread false information, influence elections, and create social unrest.

Social Engineering

Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

AI chat tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Claudefrom OpenAI competitor Anthropiccan brainstorm ideas for marketing materials, write book reports, compose poems, and even review human-written text for legibility. They can even mimic the styles of famous artists, like Van Gogh, Rembrandt, and Picasso. That could change in 2025.

Artificial Intelligence

Security Affairs

APRIL 10, 2025

digital , a digital marketing site with suspicious activity. Their TrustPilot pages show many 5-star reviews with similar, likely AI-generated content, and occasional 1-star reviews calling them scams or spammy. DNS records link domains like servicewrap-go[.]com com to 77980.bodis[.]com com , a known malvertising host.

eCommerce

Security Affairs

JUNE 15, 2025

CISA adds Wazuh, and WebDAV flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Exposed eyes: 40,000 security cameras vulnerable to remote hacking Operation Secure: INTERPOL dismantles 20,000+ malicious IPs in major cybercrime crackdown Over 80,000 servers hit as Roundcube RCE bug gets rapidly exploited A flaw could allow recovery of the phone number (..)

Spyware

Malwarebytes

JUNE 30, 2025

It could be due to seasonal scams like those we always see around tax season , which hit consumers hard this year, or widespread campaigns like toll fee scams , which also come in surges. When spyware jumps 147% in five months, that tells us attackers are moving beyond simple scams to building sustainable criminal enterprises.

Mobile

Security Boulevard

MARCH 7, 2025

And get the latest on cyber scams; zero-day vulnerabilities; and critical infrastructure security. Anyone receiving those letters should disregard them because theyre a scam, the U.S. The FBI further recommends that targeted executives do the following: Notify fellow executives in the organization about the scam so that theyre aware.

Cybersecurity

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.

Phishing

BH Consulting

JUNE 30, 2025

Data is their business, and business is good The black market in personal data is the focus of this year’s Internet Organised Crime Threat Assessment (IOCTA). The annual report from Europol’s European Cybercrime Centre draws upon thousands of investigations that Europol supported over the past year. It found nearly 2.45

Scams

Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2025

Authorities recovered $31 Million Related to 2021 Uranium Finance cyber heist Serbian student activists phone hacked using Cellebrite zero-day exploit Qilin ransomware gang claimed responsibility for the Lee Enterprises attack Meta fired 20 employees for leaking information, more firings expected International Press Newsletter Cybercrime U.S.

Data breaches

Security Affairs

MAY 4, 2025

Mail, Broadcom Brocade Fabric OS, and Commvault Web Server flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog The Turmoil Following BreachForums Shutdown: Confusion, Risks, and a New Beginning Earth Kurma APT is actively targeting government and telecommunications orgs in Southeast Asia A large-scale phishing campaign targets WordPress WooCommerce (..)

Cybercrime

Security Affairs

JULY 26, 2025

Markets by 2033 Stealth backdoor found in WordPress mu-Plugins folder U.S. CISA adds CrushFTP, Google Chromium, and SysAid flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog U.S. CISA adds Fortinet FortiWeb flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Radiology Associates of Richmond data breach impacts 1.4

Spyware

The Last Watchdog

DECEMBER 15, 2024

Revelations linked Chinese intelligence to contractors, Russian GRU officers to data destruction, and Iranian APTs to cybercrime collaboration. Amlani Ajay Amlani , President & Head of the Americas, iProov Remember KnowBe4’s 2024 deepfake hiring scam? If the U.S.

Cybersecurity

Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2025

Agencies warn of ongoing Iranian cyber threats to critical infrastructure U.S.

Data breaches

SecureWorld News

JANUARY 6, 2025

So armed with a Bachelor of Arts degree, I started off working in sales and marketing rather than computer programming or operations which might have been a better fit for where I ended up years later. This year, cybercrime is expected to cost $10.3 Today, Cybercrime Inc. Cybercrime and cyberwar are the new normal.

Cybersecurity

Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

The proliferation of cybercrime guides on forums and a 7% rise in insider threat content, driven by significant financial incentives, highlight the growing complexity of cybersecurity challenges. The proliferation of these guides enables more individuals to enter the cybercrime arena.

Cyber Attacks

SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

Expect to see AI-enabled phishing campaigns, deepfake scams, and automated attacks grow in complexity. AI-powered scams will soar: As attackers leverage commoditized AI tools, scamsespecially romance, investment, and fraudwill grow more convincing and costly.

Cybersecurity

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

However, this person’s identity may not remain a secret for long: A careful review of Kiberphant0m’s daily chats across multiple cybercrime personas suggests they are a U.S. On June 20, 2023, Vars_Secc posted a sales thread on the cybercrime forum Ramp 2.0 Army soldier who is or was recently stationed in South Korea.

DDOS

Trend Micro

JUNE 10, 2025

6 Alerts Back Unread All Inside the criminal mind: Trend’s deep dive into cybercrime. Under Attack? close Read report > Cloud security that leads: Centralized, multi-layered protection now named a CNAPP Leader by IDC.

Cyber Risk

Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Happily, the broad deployment of more secure chip-based payment cards in the United States has weakened the carding market. But a flurry of innovation from cybercrime groups in China is breathing new life into the carding industry, by turning phished card data into mobile wallets that can be used online and at main street stores. .”

Phishing

Trend Micro

JULY 2, 2025

6 Alerts Back Unread All Inside the criminal mind: Trend’s deep dive into cybercrime. It offers previously out-of-reach opportunities for business leaders to anticipate market trends and make better decisions. Under Attack? For organisations to intelligently automate mundane processes and free talent to work on higher value work.

Cyber Risk

Krebs on Security

JANUARY 27, 2025

The CSRB has so far produced three detailed reports, including an analysis of the Log4Shell vulnerability crisis, attacks from the cybercrime group LAPSUS$ , and the 2023 Microsoft Exchange Online breach. Durham ultimately indicted Michael Sussman , the former federal cybercrime prosecutor who reported the oddity to the FBI.

Cybersecurity

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. An extortion message currently on the Incognito Market homepage.

Marketing

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. “The scale of this is so massive.

Scams

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?

Cryptocurrency

Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2020

In addition, many crooks are finding the outbreak has helped them better market their cybercriminal wares and services. He said while the Coronavirus has forced reshipping operators to make painful shifts in several parts of their business, the overall market for available mules has never looked brighter.

Cybercrime