Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

In May 2013, the U.S. ” 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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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2018

The fraudsters behind the often laughable Nigerian prince email scams have long since branched out into far more serious and lucrative forms of fraud, including account takeovers, phishing, dating scams, and malware deployment. The FBI says BEC scams netted thieves more than $12 billion between 2013 and 2018.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

In its annual Data Breach Investigations Report , published at the beginning of 2013, Verizon revealed that businesses with fewer than 100 employees made up the single largest group of victims of data breaches. Early in 2013, Chinese hackers were easily able to breach the extensive defenses the Times had in place.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 15, 2022

In 2013, we had pretend hitmen threatening murder unless victims paid $25,000 to survive their non-existent wrath. Kidnap scams involve making a phone call to a victim and telling them a loved one has been taken. Don’t leave contact details of family members stored in easily compromised email accounts.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2024

Dellone says the crooks then used his phone number to break into his account at Coinbase and siphon roughly $100,000 worth of cryptocurrencies. Also, the New York court found that because the account in question contained a significant sum of money, it was unlikely to be abandoned or forgotten. For example, in 2013 the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2024

Interisle’s newest study examined nearly two million phishing attacks in the last year, and found that phishing sites accounted for more than four percent of all new.top domains between May 2023 and April 2024. Source: APWG phishing report from 2013, two years before.top came into being. Interisle said.top has roughly 2.76

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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. ” The IT network of The Manipulaters, circa 2013. ” and a Gmail account beginning with “bluebtc.” Image: Facebook.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2018

An entrepreneur and virtual currency investor is suing AT&T for $224 million, claiming the wireless provider was negligent when it failed to prevent thieves from hijacking his mobile account and stealing millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

. “Possible options include, for example, bot admin panels, code injection panels, shell control panels, payment card sniffers, traffic direction services, exchange services, spamming software, doorway generators, and scam pages, etc.” ” From 2013 to 2016, upO was a major player on Exploit[.]in

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 28, 2024

The indictment alleges that from 2013 to 2022, Kadariya played a key role in distributing the Angler Exploit Kit, which was used to spread various malware, including ransomware, through malvertising and other methods. Kadariya has been indicted for distributing the Angler Exploit Kit and other malware to millions of victims.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 3, 2023

Controversially, Blue accounts gained the same visual checkmark as verified accounts despite not using the same identity verification process. This resulted in an early wave of imitation accounts causing confusion. Twitter recently announced that all legacy accounts would lose their checkmark on April 1.

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Dark Reading

JULY 13, 2018

There were more than 78K business email account (BEC) and email account compromise (EAC) scam incidents worldwide between October 2013 and May 2018.

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SecureWorld News

AUGUST 15, 2024

The scale of this breach, if confirmed, would rival or exceed other notorious data breaches in history, such as the 2013 Yahoo breach that affected an estimated 3 billion accounts. Use complex, unique passwords for all accounts and consider using a password manager. Stay alert for phishing attempts and other scams.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 2, 2023

And in 2013, the FTC won a nearly $5 million judgment against a Kentucky company purporting to offer such services. com was legitimate or a scam. The score is only one of many criteria taken into account for employment. By 2008, the USPS job exam preppers had shifted to advertising their schemes mostly online.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

The crux of Bryant’s discovery was that the spammers in those 2016 campaigns learned that countless hosting firms and registrars would allow anyone to add a domain to their account without ever validating that the person requesting the change actually owned the domain. 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax. domaincontrol.com and ns18.domaincontrol.com).

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 18, 2022

UniCC opened shop in 2013, and specialized in credit card fraud and the sale of card details to criminals, collectively called carding. Voluntary retirement, or “sunsetting”, is second to “exit scam”, which is where the market admins pull the rug from under their clients and partners and run away with the money.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2021

MI5 said the faked LinkedIn accounts are created and operation by nation-state spy agencies, with an intent to recruit individuals or gather sensitive information. Millions in the UK Targeted by Malware via a DHL Scam Text Message. Millions of UK citizens received a scam text message (aka smashing) which impersonated DHL in April.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The Business Email Compromise (BEC) scam is one of the simplest and most damaging attacks businesses can face with losses ranging from hundreds to millions of dollars. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), losses due to BEC scams since 2013 total around $28 billion dollars and it is the most profitable cybercrime there is.

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Troy Hunt

MARCH 1, 2018

This is a little project I started whilst killing time in a hotel room in late 2013 after thinking "I wonder if people actually know where their data has been exposed?" If I'm honest, I'm constantly surprised by the extent of how far Have I Been Pwned (HIBP) is reaching these days.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Evaldas Rimasauskas was sentenced to five years of prison for stealing $120 Million from Google and Facebook employees with business email compromise (BEC) attacks carried out between 2013 and 2015. He used multiple bank accounts at banks from Cyprus, Lithuania, Hungary, Slovakia, and Latvia to receive the fraudulent payments.

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BH Consulting

AUGUST 31, 2023

Having policies and procedures to secure social media accounts and minimise the potential for incidents can help. Recently, a client with several different social media accounts and a large team of people working on them approached BH Consulting to review its security and policies around them. More than 4.7

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

Losses continue to mount, and we’re currently facing a scam racking up domestic and international losses of $43 billion. The overwhelming number of organisations filing victim complaints to the IC3 between October 2013 and December 2021 were based in the US. 6 tips to avoid BEC scams. Email accounts?

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Security Boulevard

JANUARY 13, 2024

Attorney's office in Delaware charged Olugbenga Lawal with being a major money launderer for a Nigerian-based international criminal organization that specialized in Business Email Compromise (#BEC) and Romance Scam. He taught for one year in the National Youth Core in 2013. You will hear from both Mr. Hermann and Ms.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2021

It was founded in 2013 and operates worldwide but mainly in Ukraine and Russia. Identity Theft: Leaked personally identifiable information (PIIs) can be used to access accounts on other websites, leading to further information leaks and outright identity theft. The leak has since been secured. What’s Happening?

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Malwarebytes' own glossary entry for BEC says: “A business email compromise (BEC) is an attack wherein an employee, who is usually the CFO or someone from the Finance department, is socially engineered into wiring a large sum of money to a third-party account.". In May 2022 we discussed some numbers published by the FBI. gov/Home/BEC.

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Identity IQ

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

You probably use the deep web all the time — examples may include bank accounts, your email, and login-restricted content such as news or streaming entertainment. From 2011 to 2013, the Silk Road hosted 1.2 The FBI shut down the Silk Road in October 2013. Turn on multifactor authentication for all online accounts.

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

organizations between January 2013 and July 2019. What’s more the FBI reports that Business Email Compromise (BEC) accounted for an estimated $26 billion in cybercrime-related losses over a three year period. Ransomware hacking groups extorted at least $144.35 million from U.S.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 4, 2022

And yet almost every Internet account requires one. In 2013, Edward Snowden’s revelations about pervasive Internet surveillance triggered a huge gobal effort to make encrypted web traffic the norm, rather than the exception. Passwords are a great idea in theory that fail horribly in practice.

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Spinone

JANUARY 20, 2020

Some estimates of the damages exceed one billion dollars, taking into account data loss, service outages, disrupted operations, and recovery. This type of ransomware reached its peak popularity in the years 2013-2018. There are two ways phishing scams operate: The email/SMS contains a link leading to a scam website.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 15, 2019

Unsettling new claims have emerged about Nicholas Truglia , a 21-year-old Manhattan resident accused of hijacking cell phone accounts to steal tens of millions of dollars in cryptocurrencies from victims. Tweets from the account @erupts, allegedly penned by Nicholas Truglia. “Gradually, I got to know Nick.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 8, 2023

Faced with customers trying to use WormGPT to create ransomware and phishing scams, the 23-year-old Portuguese programmer who created the project now says his service is slowly morphing into “a more controlled environment.” ” Image: SlashNext.com. “You can ask me anything,” Morais said.

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IT Security Guru

AUGUST 9, 2023

Twitter Bitcoin Scam In July of 2020, a number of high-profile celebrity and brand accounts tweeted out messages stating that all Bitcoin sent to their wallets for a period of time would be returned twofold—if someone sent $1000, they would receive $2000 back. In the end, it cost Cisco $1.4

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 31, 2021

At the start of March 2021, Microsoft rushed out patches for a critical zero-day Vulnerability in Exchange Server (2010, 2013, 2016, and 2019). Stolen in Pandemic Scams. FBI Internet Crime Report 2020: Cybercrime Skyrocketed, with Email Compromise Accounting for 43% of Losses. Cyber Security Roundup for March 2021.

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Webroot

MARCH 4, 2024

Virtual partners / AI romance AI has developed beyond the simple “swipe right/left” paradigm of modern dating apps and now even eclipsed the human-machine relationship depicted in the Spike Jonze movie, Her (2013). Part 2: AI and the need for vigilance in our digital lives The rise of AI scams 1.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2024

A scammer called using a real Google phone number to warn his Gmail account was being hacked, sent email security alerts directly from google.com, and ultimately seized control over the account by convincing him to click “yes” to a Google prompt on his mobile device.

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SC Magazine

MAY 20, 2021

A miasma of state-connected and adjacent hacking groups are charged with carrying out ransomware attacks, cryptocurrency scams and other moneymaking schemes to help the heavily isolated and cash-strapped country evade economic sanctions and fund the regime. The country’s innovation can even fool some cybersecurity experts.

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