2012 Internet Scams 
Krebs on Security
DECEMBER 10, 2018
But it wasn’t until the past week that it become clear how many organizations — including towns, cities and political campaigns — actually have fallen for this brazen scam. Davis , a former Democratic state representative from Kansas handed $85 (PDF) to Web Listings in 2012. Image: Better Business Bureau.
Schneier on Security
APRIL 10, 2023
But while it’s an easy experiment to run, it misses the real risk of large language models (LLMs) writing scam emails. Today’s human-run scams aren’t limited by the number of people who respond to the initial email contact. In 2012, researcher Cormac Herley offered an answer : It weeded out all but the most gullible.
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Krebs on Security
NOVEMBER 14, 2024
That investigation detailed how the 38-year-old Shefel adopted the nickname Rescator while working as vice president of payments at ChronoPay , a Russian financial company that paid spammers to advertise fake antivirus scams, male enhancement drugs and knockoff pharmaceuticals.
Malwarebytes
JULY 28, 2021
remember Sydney being referred to as “The Internet Olympics”. 2012 London. The London Olympics—the one where James Bond and the definitely real Queen jumped out of a helicopter —was a massive splash of malicious activity in internet terms. Russian sites hosted Trojans claiming to be official 2012 game apps. Not so much.
Krebs on Security
FEBRUARY 24, 2023
Last year, researchers at Minerva Labs spotted the botnet being used to blast out sextortion scams. BitSight researchers found significant overlap in the Internet addresses used by those domains and a domain called BHproxies[.]com. The website BHProxies[.]com The account didn’t resume posting on the forum until April 2014. .”
Heimadal Security
JANUARY 6, 2022
A man from California confessed his involvement in a large-scale and long-running Internet-based fraud scam that enabled him and other fraudsters to steal about $50 million from dozens of investors over an eight-year period, from 2012 to October 2020.
Krebs on Security
JULY 18, 2022
For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route their Internet traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. THE INTERNET NEVER FORGETS.
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