Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The fraudsters behind the often laughable Nigerian prince email scams have long since branched out into far more serious and lucrative forms of fraud, including account takeovers, phishing, dating scams, and malware deployment. The FBI says BEC scams netted thieves more than $12 billion between 2013 and 2018.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting employees at GoDaddy , the world’s largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. In March, a voice phishing scam targeting GoDaddy support employees allowed attackers to assume control over at least a half-dozen domain names, including transaction brokering site escrow.com.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 6, 2023

In May, KrebsOnSecurity interviewed a Russian spammer named “ Quotpw “ who was mass-registering accounts on the social media network Mastodon in order to conduct a series of huge spam campaigns advertising scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. com site,” the Trend researchers wrote. . Image: Trend Micro.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

” The operation was carried out in coordination with the FBI and authorities in Australia, which was particularly hard hit by phishing scams perpetrated by U-Admin customers. The best advice to sidestep phishing scams is to avoid clicking on links that arrive unbidden in emails, text messages and other mediums. Image: fr3d.hk/blog.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 30, 2023

Meanwhile, anyone in the compromised Discord channel who notices the scam and replies is banned, and their messages are deleted by the compromised admin account. “I’ve seen all kinds of crypto scams, but I’ve never seen one like this.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Web hosting giant GoDaddy made headlines this month when it disclosed that a multi-year breach allowed intruders to steal company source code, siphon customer and employee login credentials, and foist malware on customer websites. One multifactor option — physical security keys — appears to be immune to these advanced scams.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Holden said each time a new victim submitted credentials at the Coinbase phishing site, the administrative panel would make a loud “ding” — presumably to alert whoever was at the keyboard on the other end of this phishing scam that they had a live one on the hook.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 16, 2020

In those schemes, the scammers typically recruit people — often victims of online romance scams or those who also are out of work and looking for any source of income — to receive direct deposits from the fraudulent transactions, and then forward the bulk of the illicit funds to the perpetrators. million in phony claims.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

Residential proxy services are often marketed to people seeking the ability to evade country-specific blocking by the major movie and media streaming providers. 911’s EULA would later change its company name and address in 2017, to International Media Ltd. in the British Virgin Islands.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Miller said that after months of complaining and sharing fake profile information with LinkedIn, the social media network appeared to do something which caused the volume of group membership requests from phony accounts to drop precipitously. of spam and scams. Miller said these profiles are all listed in the order they appeared.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Last year, researchers at Minerva Labs spotted the botnet being used to blast out sextortion scams. Tawfik’s Instagram account says he is a former operations manager at the social media network TikTok , as well as a former director at Crypto.com. This user’s Facebook page says Tawfik also uses the name Abdalla Khafagy.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 30, 2024

In that incident, the attackers exploited a security vulnerability in a Plex media server that the employee was running on his home network, and succeeded in installing malicious software that stole passwords and other authentication credentials.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Facebook ; Gap (Apparel) Inc ; Fifth Third Bancorp ; Hearst Communications ; Hilton Interntional ; ING Bank ; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); McDonalds Corp. ; NBC Universal Media ; NRG Energy ; Oath, Inc (a.k.a Yahoo + AOL) ; Oracle ; Tesla Motors ; Time Warner ; US Bank; US Steel Corp.;

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2022

Online scams that try to separate the unwary from their cryptocurrency are a dime a dozen, but a great many seemingly disparate crypto scam websites tend to rely on the same dodgy infrastructure providers to remain online in the face of massive fraud and abuse complaints from their erstwhile customers. ” Ark-x2[.]org

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

This means that stealing someone’s phone number often can let cybercriminals hijack the target’s entire digital life in short order — including access to any financial, email and social media accounts tied to that phone number. One of the groups that reliably posted “Tmo up!”

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