Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

2006 Turin. In terms of actual attacks which took place, we see the rise of mobile as a way in for Olympics scams. Email spam promising free airline tickets to see the games is a timeless social media scam also repackaged for this sporting event. Here, you’d get nothing but survey scams. What a combo! 2016 Rio de Janeiro.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

” The government says from 2006 until the service’s takedown, Liberty Reserve processed an estimated 55 million financial transactions worth more than $6 billion, with more than 600,000 accounts associated with users in the United States alone.

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Identity Theft Government Scams Cybercrime 271

Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

The current website for Saim Raza’s Fud Tools (above) offers phishing templates or “scam pages” for a variety of popular online sites like Office365 and Dropbox. Also we are running business since 2006.” One of several current Fudtools sites run by The Manipulaters. Image: Facebook.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It’s been around since 2006, and has millions of users. What tactics are used to scam Roblox users? We covered one such scam last year. Not everything is scam central; some of it is just weird, or baffling. If so, you’ll have experienced howls of outrage for a few days in October when the entire system came crashing down.

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Ransomware Scams Malware Phishing 144

Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

com was legitimate or a scam. He concluded it was a scam based on several factors, including that the website listed multiple other names (suggesting it had recently switched names), and that he got nothing from the transaction with the job site. “But it’s really just a smoke and mirrors game.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The Archiveus Trojan from 2006 was the first one to use RSA cipher, but it was reminiscent of a proof of concept and used a static 30-digit decryption password that was shortly cracked. This quirk made the attack look more trustworthy and added a layer of flexibility to these scams. None of these early threats went pro.

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Ransomware Hacking Encryption Penetration Testing 243

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 27, 2025

Launched in April 2006 by the Council of Europe, Data Protection Day or Data Privacy Day, as its known outside of Europe is celebrated globally every year on January 28. Back in 2006, around 100 million records were compromised across various breaches in the U.S., according to data collated by Privacy Rights Clearing House.

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