Krebs on Security

MAY 7, 2025

and Pakistan whose employees are accused of using online ads to scam westerners seeking help with trademarks, book writing, mobile app development and logo designs, a new investigation reveals. asserted last year that certain scam firms in Karachi were impersonating the company. In an indictment (PDF) unsealed last month, the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Recently, these scammers have branched out into offering fake streaming services for nearly any kind of event advertised on Facebook. 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. xyz and onlinestreaming[.]xyz.

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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. The Owner: The phishing panel owner, who will frequently listen in on and participate in scam calls. The phishing domain used to steal roughly $4.7 million in cryptocurrencies from Tony was verify-trezor[.]io.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 30, 2023

The attacker then loads the stolen token into their own browser session and (usually late at night after the admins are asleep) posts an announcement in the targeted Discord about an exclusive “airdrop,” “NFT mint event” or some other potential money making opportunity for the Discord members.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Since then, the response from LinkedIn users and readers has made clear that these phony profiles are showing up en masse for virtually all executive roles — but particularly for jobs and industries that are adjacent to recent global events and news trends. of spam and scams.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

In a post to its Twitter/X account last month, Signum Capital warned that a fake profile pretending to be their employee Mr. Lee was trying to scam people on Telegram. The file that Doug ran is a simple Apple Script (file extension “ scpt”) that downloads and executes a malicious trojan made to run on macOS systems.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

According to Russian prosecutors, the scam went like this: Consumers would receive an SMS with links to sites that falsely claimed a number of well-known companies were sponsoring drawings and lotteries for people who enrolled or agreed to answer surveys. . “I do not think that it was a reason for his arrest,” Artimovich said.

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