Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

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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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2025

and Dutch authorities seized 39 domains and servers linked to the HeartSender cybercrime group based in Pakistan. A joint law enforcement operation led to the seizure of 39 domains tied to a Pakistan-based HeartSender cybercrime group (aka Saim Raza and Manipulators Team) known for selling hacking and fraud tools.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 9, 2025

Google has expressed plans to use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to stop tech support scams in Chrome. With the launch of Chrome version 137, Google plans to use the on-device Gemini Nano large language model (LLM) to recognize and block tech support scams. Which also makes them think their system is actually infected.

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Schneier on Security

JUNE 4, 2019

Really interesting paper calculating the worldwide cost of cybercrime: Abstract: In 2012 we presented the first systematic study of the costs of cybercrime. Several new cybercrimes are significant enough to mention, including business email compromise and crimes involving cryptocurrencies. and more on response.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2024

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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Krebs on Security

MAY 28, 2025

This wasnt just a scam operation – it was essentially a cybercrime university that empowered fraudsters globally, NCCIA Director Abdul Ghaffar said at a press briefing. Prior to folding their operations behind WeCodeSolutions, Shahzad and others arrested this month operated as a web hosting group calling itself The Manipulaters.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 28, 2020

You may have heard that today’s phone fraudsters like to use use caller ID spoofing services to make their scam calls seem more believable. Dozens of cybercrime shops traffic in this stolen data, which is more traditionally used to defraud online merchants. Click to enlarge. Image: Gemini Advisory.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

One of the many scam funeral group pages on Facebook. One of many look-alike landing pages for video streaming services linked to scam Facebook funeral groups. These so-called “stealer logs” are mostly generated by opportunistic infections from information-stealing trojans that are sold on cybercrime markets.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 7, 2024

In January, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about rapper Punchmade Dev , whose music videos sing the praises of a cybercrime lifestyle. But until recently, there wasn’t much to support a conclusion that Punchmade was actually doing the cybercrime things he promotes in his songs. A copy of Turner’s complaint is available here (PDF).

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

The Russian-speaking Crazy Evil group runs over 10 social media scams, tricking victims into installing StealC, AMOS, and Angel Drainer malware. Security experts identified six Crazy Evil’s subteams, called AVLAND, TYPED, DELAND, ZOOMLAND, DEFI, and KEVLAND, which are running targeted scams for specific victim profiles.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

As Valentines Day approaches, cybercriminals are ramping up their efforts to exploit consumers through romance scams, phishing campaigns and fraudulent e-commerce offers. The post Cybercriminals Exploit Valentines Day with Romance Scams, Phishing Attacks appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Google Security

MAY 8, 2025

Posted by Jasika Bawa, Andy Lim, and Xinghui Lu, Google Chrome Security Tech support scams are an increasingly prevalent form of cybercrime, characterized by deceptive tactics aimed at extorting money or gaining unauthorized access to sensitive data. But why on-device? This information is then sent to Safe Browsing for a final verdict.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

We’ll also explore an array of cybercrime services aimed at phishers who target hotels that rely on the world’s most visited travel website. A scan of social media networks showed this is not an uncommon scam. A number of cybercriminal innovations are making it easier for scammers to cash in on your upcoming travel plans.

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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.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 14, 2025

The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2024 Internet Crime Report, marking a record-breaking year in cybercrime. This demographic was frequently targeted by tech support scams, romance scams, and crypto investment frauds. The report highlights a staggering $16.6 billion in losses. billion in losses.

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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.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 15, 2023

Now the important question: how many of you got scammed in some sort of way by cryptocurrency or another type of investment? The FBI's Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) has released its 2022 Internet Crime Report , which reveals the trends and impacts of cybercrime in the United States. According to the U.S.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 23, 2024

The post Best of 2024: Massive Online Shopping Scam Racks Up 850,000 Victims appeared first on Security Boulevard. Chinese crooks are running a global network of more than 75,000 fake online shops to steal credit card data and process fraudulent payments.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 18, 2025

In recent months, a sophisticated scam has emerged, targeting drivers across the United States with fraudulent text messages about unpaid road tolls. Smishing scams like these follow a predictable yet highly effective, nefarious behavioral blueprintleveraging urgency, impersonation, and fear to manipulate victims into compliance.

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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.”

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Last year saw a 110% rise in cybercrime in the lead up to Valentine's Day. Be wary of romance scams "People can be vulnerable on February 14th," said Dave Machin , Partner at The Berkeley Partnership. "If Verify charities before donating Scam emails and messages impersonating charities are common.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 7, 2025

Before we get to the Apple scam in detail, we need to revisit Tony’s case. ” Perm is the current administrator of Star Fraud , one of the more consequential cybercrime communities on Telegram and one that has emerged as a foundry of innovation in voice phishing attacks. The phishing domain used to steal roughly $4.7

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2025

A 20-year-old man linked to the Scattered Spider cybercrime group has pleaded guilty to charges filed in Florida and California. ” Source News4Jax The charges relate to his alleged role in the Scattered Spider cybercrime group (also known as UNC3944 , 0ktapus ). .” ” reported News4Jax. In January 2024, U.S.

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Joseph Steinberg

OCTOBER 24, 2022

The number of users who fell prey to the scam is as of yet unknown – but, other messages posted to the chat with complaints that a second shared link (also illegitimate) did not work properly seem to indicate that some people likely did, in fact, fall prey.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2024

Dutch police dismantled Bohemia/Cannabia, two major dark web markets for illegal goods, drugs, and cybercrime services. These are two of the largest and longest-running dark web platforms for the trade of illegal goods, drugs, and cybercrime services. ” reads the announcement published by Polite.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 11, 2024

The bold mass extortion attempt comes just days after Incognito Market administrators reportedly pulled an “exit scam” that left users unable to withdraw millions of dollars worth of funds from the platform. 6 that Incognito was exit-scamming its users out of their bitcoins and Monero deposits. ALL of them are Exit Scams.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The investigator — we’ll call him “George” — said the 23-year-old Medayedupin lives with his extended family in an extremely impoverished home, and that the young man told investigators he’d just graduated from college but turned to cybercrime at first with ambitions of merely scamming the scammers.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 27, 2025

In today's digital world, cybercrime is a threat to our private data and security. And with Americans owning an average of 24 electronic items in their homes , neglecting to dispose of these items correctly is putting individuals at significant risk of cybercrime. What is cybercrime?

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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.”

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 30, 2021

A counterfeit check image [redacted] that was intended for a person helping this fraud gang print and mail phony checks tied to a raft of email-based scams. the “car wrap” scam ). ” A typical confirmation letter that accompanies a counterfeit check for a car wrap scam.

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Tech Republic Security

JANUARY 23, 2025

Researchers from Abnormal Security discovered an advert for the chatbot on a cybercrime forum and tested its capabilities by asking it to create a DocuSign phishing email.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2025

A campaign named PoisonSeed uses stolen CRM and bulk email credentials to send crypto seed scams, aiming to empty victims’ digital wallets. Though distinct from groups like Scattered Spider and CryptoChameleon , the attack reflects growing threats in the broader The Com cybercrime ecosystem.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Operation HAECHI V (July-Nov 2024) targeted cyber frauds like phishing, romance scams, sextortion, investment fraud, online gambling, BEC, and e-commerce fraud. The authorities have warned of “USDT Token Approval Scam” that allows scammers access to the victims’ cryptocurrency wallets and make unauthorized transactions.

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The Hacker News

AUGUST 6, 2024

INTERPOL said it devised a "global stop-payment mechanism" that helped facilitate the largest-ever recovery of funds defrauded in a business email compromise (BEC) scam. The development comes after an unnamed commodity firm based in Singapore fell victim to a BEC scam in mid-July 2024.

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Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Scammers are hacking Google Forms to send email to victims that come from google.com. Brian Krebs reports on the effects. Boing Boing post.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2020

In almost every category — from epic breaches and ransomware to cybercrime justice and increasingly aggressive phishing and social engineering scams — 2020 was a year that truly went to eleven. Who’s Behind the ‘Web Listings’ Mail Scam? Would You Have Fallen for this Phone Scam?

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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.

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