Security Boulevard

MAY 22, 2023

Social networks are constantly battling inauthentic bot accounts that send direct messages to users promoting scam cryptocurrency investment platforms. The post Interview With a Crypto Scam Investment Spammer appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

What follows is a deep dive into how this increasingly clever Zelle fraud scam typically works, and what victims can do about it. The post The ‘Zelle Fraud’ Scam: How it Works, How to Fight Back appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

Two young men from the eastern United States have been hit with identity theft and conspiracy charges for allegedly stealing bitcoin and social media accounts by tricking employees at wireless phone companies into giving away credentials needed to remotely access and modify customer account information. Prosecutors say Jordan K. resident Kyell A.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

All of the domains mentioned above have been reported to the Justice Department’s National Center for Disaster Fraud , which accepts tips at disaster@leo.gov. Let me be clear: Just because a site is listed here doesn’t mean it’s a scam (or that it will be).

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Krebs on Security

MAY 21, 2021

One of the oldest scams around — the fake job interview that seeks only to harvest your personal and financial data — is on the rise, the FBI warns. Here’s the story of a recent LinkedIn impersonation scam that led to more than 100 people getting duped, and one almost-victim who decided the job offer was too-good-to-be-true.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 4, 2022

Email scammers sent an Uber to the home of an 80-year-old woman who responded to a well-timed email scam, in a bid to make sure she went to the bank and wired money to the fraudsters. But my mom went over to the neighbor’s house and they saw it for what it was — a scam.”

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 18, 2022

The post PayPal Phishing Scam Uses Invoices Sent Via PayPal appeared first on Security Boulevard. Recipients who call the supplied toll-free number to contest the transaction are soon asked to download software that lets the scammers assume remote control over their computer.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 4, 2023

The file included in this phishing scam uses what’s known as a “right-to-left override” or RLO character. The best advice to sidestep phishing scams is to avoid clicking on links that arrive unbidden in emails, text messages and other mediums.

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Krebs on Security

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. Most phishing scams invoke a temporal element that warns of negative consequences should you fail to respond or act quickly. com, g001bfedeex[.]com, com, and so on.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Recent weeks have seen a sizable uptick in the number of phishing scams targeting U.S. With the holiday shopping season nearly upon us, now is a great time to remind family and friends about the best advice to sidestep phishing scams: Avoid clicking on links or attachments that arrive unbidden in emails, text messages and other mediums.

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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

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Urlscan also found this phishing scam from Jan. The best advice to sidestep phishing scams is to avoid clicking on links that arrive unbidden in emails, text messages and other mediums. Most phishing scams invoke a temporal element that warns of dire consequences should you fail to respond or act quickly. Image: Urlscan.io.

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Krebs on Security

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. One multifactor option — physical security keys — appears to be immune to these advanced scams.

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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

JANUARY 29, 2022

The scam artist John Bernard (left) in a recent Zoom call, and a photo of John Clifton Davies from 2015. ” Bernard’s scam is genius because he never approaches investors directly; rather, investors are incentivized to put his portfolio in front of tech firms seeking financial backing. Tønnevold rejects this.”

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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

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Most online retailers grew wise to these scams years ago and stopped shipping to regions of the world most frequently associated with credit card fraud, including Eastern Europe, North Africa, and Russia. Most reshipping scams promise employees a monthly salary and even cash bonuses.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

A new email-based extortion scheme apparently is making the rounds, targeting Web site owners serving banner ads through Google’s AdSense program. In this scam, the extortionists are likely betting that some publishers may see paying up as a cheaper alternative to having their main source of advertising revenue evaporate.

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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

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The top-level domain for the United States — US — is home to thousands of newly-registered domains tied to a malicious link shortening service that facilitates malware and phishing scams, new research suggests. The findings come close on the heels of a report that identified.US domains registered daily.US

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 17, 2020

But KrebsOnSecurity received copious amounts of information about this scam from Milwaukee, Wisc. ” Americans shouldn’t feel left out of the scam: Hold Security founder Alex Holden says his analysts also intercepted a nearly identical set of scam templates targeting job seekers in the United States.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

What follows is a deep dive into how this increasingly clever Zelle fraud scam typically works, and what victims can do about it. Last week’s story warned that scammers are blasting out text messages about suspicious bank transfers as a pretext for immediately calling and scamming anyone who responds via text.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 4, 2022

Email scammers sent an Uber to the home of an 80-year-old woman who responded to a well-timed email scam, in a bid to make sure she went to the bank and wired money to the fraudsters.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 22, 2023

In March, 2023, a reader named Dylan from British Columbia wrote in to say he’d received one of these shipping fee scam messages not long after placing an order to buy gobs of building blocks directly from Lego.com. The message included his full name, phone number, and postal code, and urged him to click a link to mydeliveryfee-ups[.]info

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Fake profiles also may be tied to so-called “pig butchering” scams , wherein people are lured by flirtatious strangers online into investing in cryptocurrency trading platforms that eventually seize any funds when victims try to cash out. of spam and scams. “Clearly they are not monitored,” Taylor assessed.

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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

OCTOBER 20, 2022

Fake profiles also may be tied to so-called “pig butchering” scams , wherein people are lured by flirtatious strangers online into investing in cryptocurrency trading platforms that eventually seize any funds when victims try to cash out.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 21, 2021

One of the oldest scams around -- the fake job interview that seeks only to harvest your personal and financial data -- is on the rise, the FBI warns. Here's the story of a recent LinkedIn impersonation scam that led to more than 100 people getting duped, and one almost-victim who decided the job offer was too-good-to-be-true.

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Security Boulevard

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

US” — the top-level domain for the United States — are among the most prevalent in phishing scams, new research shows. Domain names ending in “.US” This is noteworthy because.US is overseen by the U.S. government, which is frequently the target of phishing domains ending in.US. Also,US domains are only supposed to be available to U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 13, 2020

The best advice to sidestep phishing scams is to avoid clicking on links that arrive unbidden in emails, text messages and other mediums. Most phishing scams invoke a temporal element that warns of dire consequences should you fail to respond or act quickly.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

‘Tis the season when even those who know a thing or two about Internet scams tend to let down their guard in the face of an eye-popping discount or the stress of last-minute holiday shopping. Even people who shop mainly at big-name online stores can get scammed if they’re not wary of too-good-to-be-true offers.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 17, 2023

Last week, the international police organization INTERPOL said it had shuttered the notorious 16Shop, a popular phishing-as-a-service platform launched in 2017 that made it simple for even complete novices to conduct complex and convincing phishing scams.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 25, 2024

” Almost a month later, another FreeCAD user reported getting stung by the same scam. This October 2023 report on the FreeCAD user forum came from a user who reported downloading a copy of the software from freecadsoft[.]com com after seeing the site promoted at the top of a Google search result for “freecad.”

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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

AUGUST 17, 2023

The international police organization INTERPOL said last week it had shuttered the notorious 16Shop, a popular phishing-as-a-service platform launched in 2017 that made it simple for even complete novices to conduct complex and convincing phishing scams.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Domain names ending in “ US ” — the top-level domain for the United States — are among the most prevalent in phishing scams, new research shows. This is noteworthy because.US is overseen by the U.S. government, which is frequently the target of phishing domains ending in.US.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 5, 2021

After a user logs in, the link prompts them to install a malicious but innocuously-named app that gives the attacker persistent, password-free access to any of the user’s emails and files, both of which are then plundered to launch malware and phishing scams against others.

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