SecureWorld News

MARCH 20, 2025

March Madness is here, and while fans are busy filling out brackets and making last-minute bets, cybercriminals are running their own full-court presstargeting unsuspecting fans with phishing scams, fake betting apps, and credential-harvesting schemes.

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Google Security

MARCH 4, 2025

Product Manager Google Messages and RCS Spam and Abuse Google has been at the forefront of protecting users from the ever-growing threat of scams and fraud with cutting-edge technologies and security expertise for years. Were now introducing Scam Detection to detect a wider range of fraudulent activities.

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Schneier on Security

MAY 30, 2025

The three-part suspicion, cognition, and automaticity model (SCAM) is one way to think about this. And third, using flawed mental shortcuts, like believing PDFs to be safer than Microsoft Word documents, or that mobile devices are safer than computers for opening suspicious emails. .” This is all hard.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

SpyLoan apps exploit social engineering to gain sensitive user data and excessive permissions, leading to extortion, harassment, and financial loss. Some of the malicious apps were promoted through deceptive advertising on social media. Some apps were suspended by Google from Google Play while others were updated by the developers.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 10, 2024

The post Scam Kit Maker Rebuilding Business After Telegram Channel Shut Down appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 30, 2025

Recent Malwarebytes threat research data reveals a sharp rise in mobile threats across the board, with malware targeting Android devices up 151%. It could be due to seasonal scams like those we always see around tax season , which hit consumers hard this year, or widespread campaigns like toll fee scams , which also come in surges.

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 28, 2025

The phishing game has evolved into synthetic sabotage a hybrid form of social engineering powered by AI that can personalize, localize, and scale attacks with unnerving precision. At the heart of many of these kits are large language models (LLMs) trained or fine-tuned specifically for social engineering tasks.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 23, 2025

Bacon Redux: Pig butchering and other serious scams still thriving, despite crackdowns in Dubai and Myanmar The post Asian Scam Farms: Industrial Scale, Warns UN Report appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 13, 2025

A smishing (SMS phishing) campaign is targeting iMessage users, attempting to socially engineer them into bypassing Apple’s built in phishing protection. How to avoid smishing scams Never reply to suspicious messages, even if its only a Y or 1. Report bogus messages and numbers.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Both scams targeted individual users only. The agent requests shipping details We were notified the following day that our order had shipped and could be tracked with a special mobile app linked in a message from the manager. The phishing link sent by the manager We have to give it to the operators: the scam was quite convincing.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 9, 2025

Unfortunately, people getting scammed online is a frequent event. Scammers are getting better at social engineering and are using Artificial Intelligence (AI) to sound more authentic and eliminate any spelling errors. It really can happen to anyone, so there’s no need to feel embarrassed if you have been scammed.

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 25, 2025

The North Korean hackers behind the Contagious Interview worker scam, which threat intelligence analysts have followed since late 2023, are now hiding behind three bogus crypto companies they created as fronts for their info- and crypto-stealing operations.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

SpyLoan apps exploit social engineering to gain sensitive user data and excessive permissions, leading to extortion, harassment, and financial loss. Some of the malicious apps were promoted through deceptive advertising on social media. Some apps were suspended by Google from Google Play while others were updated by the developers.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 10, 2024

This social engineering scheme has been amplified by targeted phishing, smishing, and vishing activities, with a noticeable increase around the winter holidays. Once the credit card details were entered, cybercriminals used them for much higher charges at the controlled merchants registered on money mules.A

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eSecurity Planet

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Cybercriminals are shifting their focus from emails to text messages, using mishing a more deceptive form of phishing to target mobile users and infiltrate corporate networks, according to new security research by Zimperium. Zimperium found that mishing activity peaked in August 2024, with over 1,000 daily attacks recorded. What is mishing?

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eSecurity Planet

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Cybersecurity awareness training helps staff recognize phishing scams , social engineering attempts, and other threats. By requiring a second form of authentication, such as a code from a mobile device, you can reduce the risk of account compromise to a great extent.

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SecureList

MARCH 25, 2025

Note that for mobile banking malware, we retrospectively revised the 2023 numbers to provide more accurate statistics. Amazon Online Shopping was mimicked by 33.19% of all phishing and scam pages targeting online store users in 2024. Mobile malware Nearly 248,000 users encountered mobile banking malware in 2024 almost 3.6

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Security Boulevard

JULY 17, 2025

Threat actors are using anti-box tools, AI, and cloaking-as-a-service tactics to bypass security tools by showing a phishing or other malicious site to targets and harmless ones to detection and blocking tools, techniques that SlashNext researchers say are reshaping how such scams are run.

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Hacker's King

DECEMBER 25, 2024

Phishing Scams : Fake login pages or deceptive messages trick users into providing their credentials. Social Engineering : Attackers manipulate victims into sharing personal information, such as passwords or answers to security questions. Weak or simple passwords are particularly vulnerable.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 2, 2025

financial system, saying the firm and its multiple entities laundered billions of dollars for North Korea's Lazarus Group and criminal gangs running pig-butchering scams from Southeast Asia. The Treasury Department is moving to cut off Huione Group, a Cambodian conglomerate, from the U.S.

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SecureList

JANUARY 30, 2025

Introduction Since mid-2024, we’ve observed a malicious Android campaign leveraging wedding invitations as a lure to social-engineer victims into installing a malicious Android app (APK), which we have named “Tria Stealer” after unique strings found in campaign samples. apk 4e7a72f32d5b6679a58c8261049d063b .apk

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Security Through Education

JUNE 2, 2025

Its way harder to spot than traditional scams, because you cant see where that QR code goes until its too late. Want to learn more about how to spot and stop scams like quishing? Visit social-engineer.org for expert tips, tools, and resources to stay secure. Written by Josten Pea Human Risk Analyst, Social-Engineer, LLC

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 26, 2025

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Zero Day

JUNE 22, 2025

And while financial costs may be a factor, individual victims may face targeted phishing campaigns, social engineering schemes, identity theft, and damage to credit.   Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams :  BEC scams  require an attacker to pretend to be a company employee, contractor, or service provider.

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Zero Day

JULY 9, 2025

An incessant drumbeat of advice about how to choose and use strong passwords and how not to fall prey to social engineering attacks has done little to keep threat actors at bay.  The basic journey is the same on mobile, but there are some differences that I won't cover.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 27, 2024

CISA adds ScienceLogic SL1 flaw to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog VMware failed to fully address vCenter Server RCE flaw CVE-2024-38812 Cisco states that data published on cybercrime forum was taken from public-facing DevHub environment Internet Archive was breached twice in a month Unknown threat actors exploit Roundcube Webmail flaw (..)

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Digital Shadows

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

This underscores the importance of having additional compensating controls and educating employees on the risks associated with phishing and other social engineering attacks. Cybercriminals typically use SIM swapping to steal phone numbers by tricking mobile carriers into transferring them to different SIMs.

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Zero Day

JUNE 20, 2025

And while financial costs may be a factor, individual victims may face targeted phishing campaigns, social engineering schemes, identity theft, and damage to credit.   Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams :  BEC scams  require an attacker to pretend to be a company employee, contractor, or service provider.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 27, 2024

and its allies must keep up; GenAI; mobile threats; RaaS makes it easier for the bad actors; non-human identity management; OT, IoT, and IIoT security and threats; cyber resiliency; SOC models; and improving cybersecurity education and programming. What the Practitioners Predict Jake Bernstein, Esq.,

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Malwarebytes

JULY 24, 2025

They also, it turns out, fall victim to fewer scams. In the original report released in June , Malwarebytes revealed how mobile scams have become a part of everyday life for most everyone across the globe—and how far too many individuals have essentially given up on trying to fight back.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

KYC isnt a Thing, claims telco: Commissioner Brendan Carr (pictured) wants $4.5 million fine on Telnyx, for enabling illegal robocall scheme. The post FINALLY! FCC Gets Tough on Robocall Fraud appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Webroot

JULY 21, 2025

Threats like social media phishing have skyrocketed from 18.9% Some of these scams are directly aimed at children, including a rash of fake school emails designed to steal sensitive personal information. Phishing and social engineering scams use threats and a sense of urgency to get you to click links and share personal information.

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Security Boulevard

JULY 18, 2025

Cambodian police and military arrested more than 1,000 people in a crackdown on cyberscam operations that have proliferated in recent years in Southeast Asia and now are spreading globally, ensnaring hundreds of thousands of people in human trafficking schemes who are forced to run romance and other online frauds.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 20, 2025

DoJ, FBI, USSS yoinked USDT: Pretty girls plus investment fraud equals forfeiture recovery (eventually). The post US Pig Butchering Victims ‘Will’ Get Refunds — Feds Seize $225M Cryptocurrency appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

JUNE 18, 2025

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Joseph Steinberg

OCTOBER 24, 2022

An online cybersecurity event with 2,500 people already logged in had to be cancelled after suspected cybercriminals launched a social engineering attack in the event’s chat window.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 1, 2018

Most of us have been trained to be wary of clicking on links and attachments that arrive in emails unexpected, but it’s easy to forget scam artists are constantly dreaming up innovations that put a new shine on old-fashioned telephone-based phishing scams. Think you’re too smart to fall for one? A CLOSE CALL.

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