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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Threatpost

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

The Department of Justice (DoJ) cracked down on a Ghana-based cybercriminal enterprise behind a slew of romance scams, COVID-19 fraud attacks and business email compromise schemes since 2013.

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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. The post How to spot the signs of a virtual kidnap scam appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Security experts from Digital Shadows have conducted an interesting study about the technique adopted by crooks to infiltrate company emails, so-called BEC scam. According to the FBI , the number of business email account (BEC) and email account compromise (EAC) scam incidents worldwide reached 78,000 between October 2013 and May 2018.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2024

Source: APWG phishing report from 2013, two years before.top came into being. A fascinating new wrinkle in the phishing landscape is the growth in scam pages hosted via the InterPlanetary File System (IPFS), a decentralized data storage and delivery network that is based on peer-to-peer networking.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

In February 2020, KrebsOnSecurity wrote about being contacted by an Internal Revenue Service investigator seeking to return funds seized seven years earlier as part of the governments 2013 seizure of Liberty Reserve , a virtual currency service that acted as a $6 billion hub for the cybercrime world.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 10, 2020

was responsible for $17 million worth of stolen credential sales since its inception in 2013. was a now-defunct shop called “Dedushka” (“grandpa” in transliterated Russian), a service offering aged, fake Vkontakte accounts that was quite popular among crooks involved in various online dating scams.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

The epidemic went truly mainstream with the release of CryptoLocker back in 2013, and it has since transformed into a major dark web economy spawning the likes of Sodinokibi, Ryuk, and Maze lineages that are targeting the enterprise on a huge scale in 2020. FBI spoofs 2012 – 2013. File encryption 2013 – 2015.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

As noted in last week’s story, the beauty of a scam like the one multiple investment brokers said was being run by Mr. Bernard is that companies bilked by small-time investment schemes rarely pursue legal action, mainly because the legal fees involved can quickly surpass the losses. news report from 2015.

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Dark Reading

JANUARY 10, 2020

The India-based call centers scammed US victims out of millions of dollars between 2013 and 2016.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2021

” The SEC said the 800 million+ records had been publicly available on First American’s website since 2013. According to the FBI, BEC scams are the most costly form of cybercrime today. There’s no way to tell unless you can go back through all your logs all those years.”

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 10, 2024

” Experts say regardless of the reason for a cryptocurrency theft or loss — whether it’s from a romance scam or a straight-up digital mugging — it’s important for victims to file an official report both with their local police and with the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center ( ic3.gov

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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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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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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

In 2013, Vrublevsky was sentenced to 2.5 According to Russian prosecutors, the scam went like this: Consumers would receive an SMS with links to sites that falsely claimed a number of well-known companies were sponsoring drawings and lotteries for people who enrolled or agreed to answer surveys.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Exposed data, some of which go back to 2013, include sensitive information and credit card details. The availability of such kind of data could expose hotel guests to a wide range of malicious activities, including identity theft, phishing attacks, scams, malware attacks, and reservation takeover. According to the experts.

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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. One of several current Fudtools sites run by The Manipulaters. Image: Facebook.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Phishing scams remain such a widely used attack vector because of their efficiency. The potential rewards for very little effort make phishing scams highly attractive attack vectors requiring minimal technical knowledge. Some phishing scams are so convincing that they can fool even seasoned security professionals.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 26, 2021

As part of this mindset, more consumers are subscribing to a personal VPN service which they use to shield themselves from disinformation sweeps and to protect themselves from Covid 19-related hacks and scams. I first encountered consumer VPNs back in 2013, when I interviewed the founders of Hotspot Shield and TunnelBear for this news story.

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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. By 2008, the USPS job exam preppers had shifted to advertising their schemes mostly online. “But it’s really just a smoke and mirrors game.

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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. Stay alert for phishing attempts and other scams. Use complex, unique passwords for all accounts and consider using a password manager.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

ISO/IEC 27001:2013 is the first information security certification provided to Tinder by Coalfire ISO that offers extensive impartial external audit procedures to app owners. The post Tinder achieves certification in Information Security Management System appeared first on Cybersecurity Insiders.

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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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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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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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CyberSecurity Insiders

AUGUST 26, 2022

CryptoLocker: Another cryptocurrency attack took place in 2013 at the hands of a piece of ransomware called CryptoLocker. Avoiding phishing scams can be the best way to prevent a ransomware attack. Educating employees: Security on the computer starts with the employees.

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Security Boulevard

MAY 3, 2021

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. NCSC advice FluBot: Guidance for ‘package delivery’ text message scam . Flubot: Warning over SMS “Package Delivery” Scam Message which Delivers Android Malware.

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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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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. What is Business Email Compromise?

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

Virtualfirefox.com is a domain registered via GoDaddy in 2013 and currently owned by The Mozilla Corporation , a wholly owned subsidiary of the Mozilla Foundation — the makers of the popular Firefox Web browser. 13, 2018 bomb threat hoax.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2018

The claims come in a lawsuit filed this week in Los Angeles on behalf of Michael Terpin , who co-founded the first angel investor group for bitcoin enthusiasts in 2013. But SIM swaps are frequently abused by scam artists who trick mobile providers into tying a target’s service to a new SIM card and mobile phone that the attackers control.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

From full-on android robots like “Rhoda Miller” in My Living Doll to the disembodied voice played by Scarlett Johansson in 2013’s Her , we’ve been collectively dreaming about artificial intelligence filling all of our emotional needs for generations. AI romantic partners have been a thing in popular culture since at least the 1960s.

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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. The Lithuanian citizen Evaldas Rimasauskas (48) was arrested in March 2017 by local authorities.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The overwhelming number of organizations filing victim complaints to the IC3 between October 2013 and December 2021 were based in the US. To avoid being used as a bait company, you can regularly conduct web searches for your company name to identify results that return multiple websites that may be used in a scam. gov/Home/BEC.

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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. Classic Baggie? What sort of name is that?

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The Last Watchdog

MAY 11, 2020

organizations between January 2013 and July 2019. In a typical BEC scam , an imposter carries out a con to persuade a subordinate employee to wire funds directly into a bank account controlled by the fraudsters. And yet, it remains true today that most folks do not take that responsibility seriously enough. million from U.S.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 3, 2021

It was founded in 2013 and operates worldwide but mainly in Ukraine and Russia. Scams, Phishing, and Malware: It is common for unethical hackers and criminals on the Internet to use personal data to create trustworthy phishing emails. The leak has since been secured. What’s Happening? Our team of ethical hackers led by Ata Hakç?l

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