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An 18 year scam odyssey of stranded astronauts

Malwarebytes

There is a semi-mythical scam which comes around every couple of years, like some sort of digital bad luck version of Halley’s Comet. While I’m not aware of someone having lost money to this scam previously, it struck gold in 2022. 2010: Still hitching a ride. Did I mention the arrow is in space? 2004: First contact.

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The Olympics: a timeline of scams, hacks, and malware

Malwarebytes

2010 Vancouver. 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!

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The High Stakes of Cybersecurity in Online Gambling

SecureWorld News

Fraud: Sophisticated scams, including bonus abuse and account takeovers, pose significant financial risks. Don't forget to enable MFA, use strong, unique passwords, and be suspicious of inbound messages about gaming that could be phishing attempts. This makes them prime targets for cybercriminals.

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Spam Kingpin Peter Levashov Gets Time Served

Krebs on Security

Junk email campaigns touting employment or “money mule” scams cost $300 per million, and phishing emails could be blasted out through Severa’s botnet for the bargain price of $500 per million. One was Alan Ralsky , an American spammer who was convicted in 2009 of paying Severa and other spammers to promote pump-and-dump stock scams.

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6 VPN Security Best Practices for Secure Connection

eSecurity Planet

According to available data, more than 4,600 common IT vulnerabilities were discovered in 2010. It does not block phishing scams, hacking attempts, viruses, or malware. Kill Phishing This may be the easiest and hardest user behavior to control. Kill Phishing This may be the easiest and hardest user behavior to control.

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Has Facebook leaked your phone number?

Malwarebytes

To be honest, between scraping vulnerabilities dating back to 2010 , and the Cambridge Analytica scandal , an old data breach is still a data breach, and you’re probably still going to need to pay attention to it. The first thing that comes to mind is a scam where people text you pretending to be a relative or dear friend.

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Experts found 20 Million tax records for Russian citizens exposed online

Security Affairs

. “The first database contained more than 14 million personal and tax records from 2010 to 2016, and the second included over 6 million from 2009 to 2015.” The exposed data could be used by threat actors to carry out tax scam and frauds. ” continues the experts. ” concludes the experts.