SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Back in 2016, the primary focus of our expert was on major cybergangs that targeted financial institutions, banks in particular. This browser attack chain, popular in 2016, is no longer possible. Then and now: a comparison of how cybercrime groups looked in 2016 vs 2021. Change of targets.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

“According to this actor, he had originally intended to send his targets—all senior-level executives—phishing emails to compromise their accounts, but after that was unsuccessful, he pivoted to this ransomware pretext,” Hassold wrote. billion in 2020.

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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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Malwarebytes

JULY 28, 2021

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. 2016 Rio de Janeiro. What a combo!

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Tech Republic Security

AUGUST 9, 2016

As hackers target Olympic fans with phishing, ransomware, and other attacks, companies must ensure employees know cybersecurity best practices to avoid becoming a victim.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Some crafty phishing email examples are those emails from your mom, your bank or your boss that require a prompt response… especially the ones from your boss (sorry mom). These phishing email examples may seem a little far-fetched, but they do happen, and happen quite often. Snapchat: The Fake CEO.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

The founder of Liberty Reserve, 45-year-old Arthur Budovsky , pleaded guilty in 2016 to conspiring to commit money laundering. Requests for this information from the Justice Department office that prosecuted the case — the U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York — went unanswered.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

Barely a day goes by without news of an elite hacking team creating a more stealth exploit– malware , elaborate spear-phishing attacks, trojans, and a killer array of ransomware that can take factories and other organizations offline, or even hobble entire cities. Cyberattacks are constantly getting more sophisticated.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 11, 2022

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. 2016: The Abacha comeback special. Wind forward to 2016. 2004: First contact.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The unknown intruders gained access to internal Mailchimp tools and customer data by social engineering employees at the company, and then started sending targeted phishing attacks to owners of Trezor hardware cryptocurrency wallets. com, which was fed by pig butchering scams. In 2016, while the U.S. Even though U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

But as he began digging deeper, Guilmette came to the conclusion that the spammers were exploiting an obscure — albeit widespread — weakness among hosting companies, cloud providers and domain registrars that was first publicly detailed in 2016. EARLY WARNING SIGNS.

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The Last Watchdog

AUGUST 18, 2021

billion in 2016, for instance. In addition, even simple training or quizzes on how to spot a phishing attack will help individuals to avoid being caught up in a scam or a potential attack. Also, one of the top ways attackers can target individuals is via social engineering or phishing. These are eminently complex times.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 2, 2021

The name EMMA is an acronym for European Money Mule Action operation, the first EMMA operation led by Europol took place in 2016. The money mules have a crucial role in criminal organizations to launder money for a wide array of illegal activities, such as online scams, sim-swapping, e-commerce fraud, and phishing.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 21, 2021

Phishing techniques use social engineering to trick victims into taking an action that helps an attacker compromise your network or access your sensitive information assets. Fraudulent emails purporting to be from authoritative company sources are the main phishing attacks that employees fall victim to. Stolen Credentials.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 21, 2020

This quirk made the attack look more trustworthy and added a layer of flexibility to these scams. The infamous Locky ransomware was first spotted in the wild in February 2016. CrySiS, also known as Dharma, has been around since 2016 and continues to be active at the time of this publication.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 7, 2022

This particular scheme had been rumbling along since “at least” 2016, and the accused individual worked in the publishing industry. These are common phishing tactics used by regular phishers, but here we can see it being deployed in a more targeted fashion. Alongside this were “more than 160 internet domains”. Nice award.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 5, 2022

On New Year’s Eve, Seif Elsallamy ( @0x21SAFE on Twitter), a bug bounty hunter and security researcher, pointed out a phish-worthy security flaw he found on Uber’s email system. Knowing that this can be done by anyone opens multiple phishing opportunities for the would-be scammer. The post Careful!

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Unsurprisingly, this is also the time of year where we see an increase in tax-related scams. A testimonial mentioning the aforementioned website seen in the ad claims that it existed back in 2016 while whois records show the domain name was only created in 2023. Use security software that blocks phishing domains and other scam sites.

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SecureList

MARCH 31, 2021

Even though, in 2020, we have seen ever more sophisticated cyberattacks, the overall statistics look encouraging: the number of users hit by computer and mobile malware declines, so does financial phishing. Traditionally, the study covers the common phishing threats encountered by users, along with Windows and Android-based financial malware.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Our researchers found that the letters are dated between 2016 and 2021. Risk of plate cloning While the leaked parking permits are no longer valid, malicious actors could use the exposed data for identity theft and to craft spear phishing attacks. Researchers contacted MTC, and public access to the data was closed.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 1, 2019

The experts found an unprotected Elasticsearch cluster that was containing personally identifiable information on Russian citizens spanning from 2009 to 2016. “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.”

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SecureList

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

We look at phishing threats commonly encountered by users and companies as well as the prevalence of various Windows and Android-based financial malware. Phishing: In 2021, 8.2% of users were hit by phishing. E-commerce-related phishing continued to exceed banking-related phishing, as it did in 2020, making up 17.6%

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

While looking for threats targeting Ukraine, we identified a group we call “Nigerian Tesla” that has been dabbling into phishing and other data theft activities for a number of years. pw accounts, various scams). Back then, they performed classic scams under the Rita Bent moniker. From 419 scams to Agent Tesla.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Over the last few days, scammers have been sending out phishing mails that disguise bogus URLs with something called Slinks— shortened Linkedin URLs. For example, in February of last year Slinks were being used to send people to IRS and PayPal phishes. Now they're being used in a scam based on Amazon's popular Prime membership.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

In the world of online scams, criminals care about one thing: Your money. That’s true for the criminals who send you phishing emails that ask you to fill out personal information on bogus webpages that spoof the legitimate sites of Netflix, or Facebook, or your bank. Don’t lose thousands upon thousands of dollars.

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Adam Levin

JULY 23, 2020

Barely a day goes by without news of an elite hacking team creating a more stealth exploit– malware , elaborate spear-phishing attacks, trojans, and a killer array of ransomware that can take factories and other organizations offline, or even hobble entire cities. Cyberattacks are constantly getting more sophisticated.

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The Last Watchdog

JULY 27, 2021

We’ve seen some of the buckets were accessible and got archived as back as 2016. Then, if it has indeed been accessed and exploited, it’s probable that most of the data would be sold on the DarkWeb to people looking for such details to help provide fake identities, phishing scams or else.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 4, 2022

Even though there are infinite strains of malware, there are only a handful of vectors, some of which include surfing the Web, phishing emails, Trojan downloads and portable document formats (PDFs). Spear Phishing. With spear phishing, hackers target organizations for confidential or highly sensitive data. Malvertising.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 17, 2022

According to court documents, Igwilo was charged in 2016 in the US District Court, Southern District of Texas, Houston, Texas for “one count of wire fraud conspiracy, one count of money laundering conspiracy and one count of aggravated identity theft.”

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Digital Shadows

AUGUST 17, 2021

What is Phish(ing)? But, never mind the dozens of other reports and white papers about phishing that come out every year from security industry leaders, let’s take a look at the 2021 Verizon DBIR. Going back a bit, it was also the top attack vector in 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, and well, hopefully, you get the picture.

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SC Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Outside the fearsome headlines, the lives of ordinary people are regularly hijacked through scams, account takeovers, and data leaks. Incredibly, we’ve discovered that Russian hackers have stolen email and office data from hundreds of organizations in the public and private sectors without even sending phishing emails.

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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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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2021

Back in 2016, we saw the emergence of a botnet mainstay called TrickBot. Sometimes, it’s used even if an attack being discussed is a basic phish, or maybe some very generic malware. Big scams, big numbers. Whether spread by malvertising or email spam, the end result was the same. Peeling back the TrickBot onion.

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Troy Hunt

APRIL 17, 2018

pic.twitter.com/ZJSDF2VMzv — Troy Hunt (@troyhunt) November 23, 2016. And just the day after first seeing Nodestack's behaviour: Prevent #phishing attacks with comprehensive, cloud-based email security that provides end-to-end control of your email! gdlinux — Guardian Digital (@gdlinux) April 13, 2018.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2022

For example, 555,000 people had their details leaked in 2016 when Red Cross Australia blood donor information was accessed by someone without permission. From untargeted to very targeted… During the Japan tsunami and earthquake of 2011, a huge volume of scam attacks sank their claws into the disaster. Under attack (again).

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SecureWorld News

APRIL 4, 2022

Before leakware came doxware, which was popular in 2016 and 2017. Email phishing attacks are a common method hackers use to execute leakware. Filtering and analyzing can prevent phishing emails from ever making their way into an employee or executive's inbox. Prioritize employee cybersecurity training.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A few highlights: $43 billion were stolen between June 2016 and December 2021. Use spear phishing and other techniques to get access to a legitimate company’s email system and send fraudulent emails from there. Educate your employees to raise awareness of BEC, phishing, and other types of fraud. gov/Home/BEC.

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