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APRIL 10, 2025

Those who click the promoted link are brought to a website that spoofs the USPS or a local toll road operator and asks for payment card information. Postal Service (USPS). The site will then complain that the visitor’s bank needs to “verify” the transaction by sending a one-time code via SMS.

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NOVEMBER 21, 2020

. “Separately, and unrelated to the outage, a routine audit of account activity identified potential unauthorized changes to a small number of customer domains and/or account information,” GoDaddy spokesperson Dan Race said. authenticate the phone call before sensitive information can be discussed.

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JUNE 22, 2023

The United Parcel Service (UPS) says fraudsters have been harvesting phone numbers and other information from its online shipment tracking tool in Canada to send highly targeted SMS phishing (a.k.a. “It seems likely to me that UPS is leaking information somehow about upcoming deliveries.” info , legodelivery[.]info

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JULY 29, 2021

But the reality is that in most cases by the time the victim organization discloses an incident publicly the information has already been harvested many times over by profit-seeking cybercriminals. When a website’s user database gets compromised, that information invariably turns up on hacker forums. customers this month.

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DECEMBER 13, 2022

Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to build cyber and physical threat information sharing partnerships with the private sector, this week saw its database of contact information on more than 80,000 members go up for sale on an English-language cybercrime forum. InfraGard , a program run by the U.S.

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AUGUST 16, 2022

Last month, they sold customer information on 36 million customers of the Mexican phone company Telcel ; in March, they sold 33,000 images of Mexican IDs — with the front picture and a selfie of each citizen. “The set of information referred to is inaccurate and outdated, and does not put our users and customers at risk.”

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OCTOBER 13, 2021

In each case, the phishers manually would push a button that caused the phishing site to ask visitors for more information, such as the one-time password from their mobile app. Pressing the “Send Info” button prompted visitors to supply additional personal information, including their name, date of birth, and street address. .

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NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Here’s a look at a fairly elaborate SMS-based phishing scam that spoofs FedEx in a bid to extract personal and financial information from unwary recipients. com — from a desktop web browser redirects the visitor to a harmless page with ads for car insurance quotes. com — stopped resolving.

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SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Friends and family who follow the links for the streaming services are then asked to cough up their credit card information. Clicking to view the “live stream” of the funeral takes one to a newly registered website that requests credit card information. One of the many scam funeral group pages on Facebook. co or skysports[.]live.

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JUNE 15, 2024

“He stands accused of hacking into corporate accounts and stealing critical information, which allegedly enabled the group to access multi-million-dollar funds,” Murcia Today wrote. LastPass said criminal hackers had stolen encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information.

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MAY 21, 2021

“The endgame was to offer a job based on successful completion of background check which obviously requires entering personal information,” Gwin said. “Even after the real Troy said they’d gotten these [LinkedIn] ads shut down, this guy was still emailing me asking for my HR information,” Siegel said.

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JANUARY 9, 2023

But when I tried to get my report from Experian via annualcreditreport.com, Experian’s website said it didn’t have enough information to validate my identity. In response to information shared by KrebsOnSecurity, Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) It wouldn’t even show me the four multiple-guess questions. ” Sen.

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OCTOBER 8, 2020

There’s an old adage in information security: “Every company gets penetration tested, whether or not they pay someone for the pleasure.” To wit: “There is huge insider information on the companies which we target, including information if there are tape drives and clouds (for example, Datto that is built to last, etc.),

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SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

is overseen by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an executive branch agency of the U.S. Registration Information page that auto-populates the nexus attestation field with the response, “I am a citizen of the United States.” US phishing domains.US Department of Commerce. to obtain a.US

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AUGUST 30, 2022

The phishers behind this scheme used newly-registered domains that often included the name of the target company, and sent text messages urging employees to click on links to these domains to view information about a pending change in their work schedule. 2, and Aug. On that last date, Twilio disclosed that on Aug. In an Aug.

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Users claim that SMSRanger has an efficacy rate of about 80% if the victim answered the call and the full information (fullz) the user provided was accurate and updated.” I hope these OTP interception services make clear that you should never provide any information in response to an unsolicited phone call. org) for a checkup.

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JANUARY 21, 2022

All of the credentials being sold by Accountz provide access to services that in turn sell access to stolen information or hijacked property, as in the case of “bot shops” that resell access to infected computers. That’s probably because so few customers supply their real contact information when they sign up.

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OCTOBER 31, 2023

is overseen by the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA), an executive branch agency of the U.S. .” Since then, they found that whoever is responsible for running the service has used.US for approximately 55 percent of the total domains created, with several dozen new malicious.US domains registered daily.US

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JULY 10, 2022

Research suggests identity thieves were able to hijack the accounts simply by signing up for new accounts at Experian using the victim’s personal information and a different email address. “We believe these are isolated incidents of fraud using stolen consumer information,” Experian’s statement reads.

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OCTOBER 5, 2022

Last week, KrebsOnSecurity examined a flood of inauthentic LinkedIn profiles all claiming Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at various Fortune 500 companies, including Biogen , Chevron , ExxonMobil , and Hewlett Packard. “We’ll see 20-30 requests come in with the same type of information in the profiles.”

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MAY 16, 2020

” “It is assumed the fraud ring behind this possesses a substantial PII database to submit the volume of applications observed thus far,” the Secret Service warned. The alert follows news reports by media outlets in Washington and Rhode Island about millions of dollars in fraudulent unemployment claims in those states.

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OCTOBER 20, 2022

In late September 2022, KrebsOnSecurity warned about the proliferation of fake LinkedIn profiles for Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at some of the world’s largest corporations. . “That’s definitely the first huge drop that happened throughout the time we’ve collected the profiles,” she said.

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MARCH 28, 2023

The United Kingdom’s National Crime Agency (NCA) has been busy setting up phony DDoS-for-hire websites that seek to collect information on users, remind them that launching DDoS attacks is illegal, and generally increase the level of paranoia for people looking to hire such services.

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SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Someone has recently created a large number of fake LinkedIn profiles for Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at some of the world’s largest corporations. If you were confused at this point, you might ask Google who it thinks is the current Chief Information Security Officer of Chevron. of spam and scam.”

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FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This post examines some of what that company is seeing in its efforts to stymie unemployment fraud. Personal information from the inmate IDs has been redacted. Bloomberg Law reports that in response to a flood of jobless claims that exploit the lack of information sharing among states, the Labor Dept. Image: ID.me.

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SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Picari was the owner, developer and main beneficiary of the service, and his personal information and ownership of OTP Agency was revealed in February 2020 in a “dox” posted to the now-defunct English-language cybercrime forum Raidforums. The NCA said it began investigating the service in June 2020. Just hang up, full stop.

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JANUARY 25, 2023

When I tested Kushnir’s instructions on my own identity at Experian, I found I was able to see my report even though Experian’s website told me it didn’t have enough information to validate my identity. To make matters worse, a majority of the information in that credit report is not mine.

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JANUARY 17, 2024

The 24-year-old rapper told reporters he wasn’t instructing people how to conduct wire fraud, but instead informing his fans on how to avoid being victims of wire fraud. However, this is difficult to discern from listening to the song, which sounds very much like a step-by-step tutorial on how to commit wire fraud.

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OCTOBER 15, 2022

org remains online and accepting requests, as does the service’s Tor-based domain, and it is unclear how those services are sourcing their information. “Information about the fraudsters was also sent to key market participants, and their transaction data was added to the tracking database to better combat money laundering.”

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MAY 23, 2020

Worse still, the source said, many states have dramatically pared back the amount of information required to successfully request an unemployment filing. citizens, mainly because the only information required to submit a claim was name, date of birth, address and Social Security number.

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OCTOBER 18, 2023

The fake browser alerts are specific to the browser you’re using, so if you’re surfing the Web with Chrome, for example, you’ll get a Chrome update prompt. Those who are fooled into clicking the update button will have a malicious file dropped on their system that tries to install an information stealing trojan.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2023

The general manager of Escrow.com said he suspected the call was a scam, but decided to play along for about an hour — all the while recording the call and coaxing information out of the scammer. “He was literally reading off the tickets to the notes of the admin panel inside GoDaddy.”

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JANUARY 30, 2024

0ktapus used newly-registered domains that often included the name of the targeted company, and sent text messages urging employees to click on links to these domains to view information about a pending change in their work schedule. 0ktapus often leveraged information or access gained in one breach to perpetrate another.

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In the meantime, we encourage any security researchers to share any useful information they believe they may have with our Threat Intelligence team by contacting securitydisclosure@lastpass.com.” LastPass disclosed that criminal hackers had compromised encrypted copies of some password vaults, as well as other personal information.

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Please contact us at [link] to get more information on how to fix this issue.” ” Visiting that link generates a web page that asks the visitor to “Verify You Are Human” by solving an unusual CAPTCHA. We have detected a security vulnerability in your repository.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Cybersecurity threat intelligence firm Intel 471 describes U-Admin as an information stealing framework that uses several plug-ins in one location to help users pilfer victim credentials more efficiently. A demonstration video showing the real-time web injection capabilities of the U-Admin phishing kit.

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MARCH 7, 2023

The lawsuit also seeks information about the identities of 20 different “John Does” — Freenom customers that Meta says have been particularly active in phishing attacks against Facebook , Instagram , and WhatsApp users.

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