Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

The amount of fraud we are fighting is truly staggering.” ” According to ID.me, a major driver of phony jobless claims comes from social engineering, where people have given away personal data in response to romance or sweepstakes scams, or after applying for what they thought was a legitimate work-from-home job.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2020

Most online retailers years ago stopped shipping to regions of the world most frequently associated with credit card fraud, including Eastern Europe, North Africa, and Russia. For example, reshipping scams have over the years become easier for both reshipping mule operators and the mules themselves.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

2022 that an intrusion had exposed a “limited number” of Twilio customer accounts through a sophisticated social engineering attack designed to steal employee credentials. Sosa also was active in a particularly destructive group of accomplished criminal SIM-swappers known as “ Star Fraud.”

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

But the fabricated LinkedIn identities are confusing search engine results for CISO roles at major companies, and they are being indexed as gospel by various downstream data-scraping sources. of spam and scam.” It’s not clear who’s behind this network of fake CISOs or what their intentions may be.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 3, 2019

The complaint alleges that for nearly three years, WSM was operated on the dark web by three men who engineered an “exit scam” last month, absconding with all of the virtual currency held in marketplace escrow and user accounts. “Make it public and things gonna be worse,” the message warned.

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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 that last date, Twilio disclosed that on Aug. ”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2024

“In the malicious ad campaigns we’ve seen tied to this group, they would wait until the domains gain legitimacy on the search engines, and then flip the page for a day or so and then flip back.” ” Almost a month later, another FreeCAD user reported getting stung by the same scam.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

“Our technology ensures the maximum security from reverse engineering and antivirus detections,” ExEClean promised. ” The service charged 20 percent of all “scam wires,” unauthorized wire transfers resulting from bank account takeovers or scams like CEO impersonation schemes.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

Here’s what part of their current homepage looks like: The SocksEscort home page says its services are perfect for people involved in automated online activity that often results in IP addresses getting blocked or banned, such as Craigslist and dating scams, search engine results manipulation, and online surveys.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 25, 2023

Now new findings reveal that AVrecon is the malware engine behind a 12-year-old service called SocksEscort , which rents hacked residential and small business devices to cybercriminals looking to hide their true location online. Image: Lumen’s Black Lotus Labs.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

First, they included an offer to use a mutually trusted “middleman” or escrow provider for the transaction (to protect either party from getting scammed). One of the groups that reliably posted “Tmo up!” ” messages to announce SIM-swap availability against T-Mobile customers also reliably posted “Tmo down!

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