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Scam ‘Funeral Streaming’ Groups Thrive on Facebook

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Recently, these scammers have branched out into offering fake streaming services for nearly any kind of event advertised on Facebook. The page listed the correct time and date of the funeral service, which it claimed could be streamed over the Internet by following a link that led to a page requesting credit card information.

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The Great $50M African IP Address Heist

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A top executive at the nonprofit entity responsible for doling out chunks of Internet addresses to businesses and other organizations in Africa has resigned his post following accusations that he secretly operated several companies which sold tens of millions of dollars worth of the increasingly scarce resource to online marketers.

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New Ransom Payment Schemes Target Executives, Telemedicine

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The first centers on targeting healthcare organizations that offer consultations over the Internet and sending them booby-trapped medical records for the “patient.” ” The other involves carefully editing email inboxes of public company executives to make it appear that some were involved in insider trading. ”

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That Domain You Forgot to Renew? Yeah, it’s Now Stealing Credit Cards

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A review of the neighboring domains that reside at Internet addresses adjacent to julierandallphoto-dot-com ( 196.196.152/153.x Anyone responsible for managing a range of Internet addresses can sign up at Shadowserver.org to have those ranges monitored for domains compromised by Magecart tools.

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Disneyland Malware Team: It’s a Puny World After All

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A financial cybercrime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains that spoof popular bank brands using Punycode , an Internet standard that allows web browsers to render domain names with non-Latin alphabets like Cyrillic.

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Calendar Meeting Links Used to Spread Mac Malware

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SlowMist says the North Korean phishing scams used the “Add Custom Link” feature of the Calendly meeting scheduling system on event pages to insert malicious links and initiate phishing attacks. Once the project team complies, their computer comes under the control of the hackers, leading to the theft of funds.”

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Busting SIM Swappers and SIM Swap Myths

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Rather, he said, this explanation of events was a misunderstanding at best, and more likely a cover-up at some level. The bug could be exploited simply by adding the phone number of a target to the end of a Web address used by one of the company’s internal tools that was nevertheless accessible via the open Internet.

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