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. million USD) monthly.

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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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Krebs on Security

MARCH 10, 2020

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. For example, one early adopter of deer.io Isis’ profile on antichat.

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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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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2021

According to the latest figures (PDF) released by the FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), the reported losses from BEC scams continue to dwarf other cybercrime loss categories, increasing to $1.86 billion in 2020. Indeed, perhaps this enterprising Nigerian scammer is just keeping up with current trends.

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Heimadal Security

JUNE 2, 2022

However, in 2016, the Java-based client was mostly phased out in favor of a standalone C++ […]. The post New RuneScape Phishing Scam Aimed at Stealing Accounts and In-game Item Bank PINs appeared first on Heimdal Security Blog. The game was first made available in January of 2001.

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Tech Republic Security

AUGUST 24, 2016

Though the Olympic games have ended for the summer, cybercriminals are still using stories from the games to target companies. Here's how to stay safe.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

” The operation was carried out in coordination with the FBI and authorities in Australia, which was particularly hard hit by phishing scams perpetrated by U-Admin customers. “Universal Admin,” is crimeware platform that first surfaced in 2016. The U-Admin phishing panel interface. Image: fr3d.hk/blog.

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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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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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Malwarebytes

APRIL 29, 2022

Instagram has a feature called Stories, first introduced in 2016. The scam hidden in plain sight. They could send you funds that may be stolen or try to tie you up in money mule scams. Instagram Stories hides a scam in plain sight appeared first on Malwarebytes Labs. The page itself is acting as it should.

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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. three years in a row ( 2016 , 2017 and 2018). Image: Better Business Bureau. A review of the complaints about Web Listings Inc.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

In recent months we observed a surge in crypto-scams due to the continuous increase of the value of popular cryptocurrency schema, $7.12 billion were lost due to scams. The percentage increase in the number of scams per year is up by 850% in the last decade. Threat actors stole $3.18 Increase in money lost to crypto breaches.

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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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Dark Reading

JUNE 8, 2023

Ready-to-defraud turnkey services from Russia's Impulse Team are offered on the cyber underground and have built a campaign that has operated undetected dating back to 2016.

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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

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

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

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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Graham Cluley

MARCH 16, 2022

The alleged ringleader of an international scam operation has been arrested by Nigerian authorities in Lagos, after being wanted by the FBI since 2016. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

The FBI warns about a massive surge in victims from “ pig butchering ” scams, in which flirtatious strangers online lure people into investing in cryptocurrency scams. com, which was fed by pig butchering scams. ” The employees who kept things running for RSOCKS, circa 2016. In 2016, while the U.S.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

A similar campaign in 2016 was used to spread malware to anyone who had the bad luck of typing Netflix.om The opportunities for scams are numerous when a single missing letter can take a would-be victim to a completely separate site. and Citibank.om (.om om is the domain suffix for Oman).

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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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Malwarebytes

MAY 14, 2021

.” Calendar spam became a big problem for Apple’s iCloud calendars back in 2016. Users will encounter a scam web page like the following one (though this is just an example). In all cases, the content is a scam message trying to get you to open a link. Whatever they did was working, up until recently.

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Joseph Steinberg

DECEMBER 14, 2020

A former Cisco engineer was sentenced this past Wednesday (December 9, 2020) to 24 months in prison (and a $15,000 fine) for accessing Cisco’s network, and subsequently causing a service outage of Cisco’s WebEx Teams video conferencing service. Million in damage (including $1 Million of refunds to impacted customers and $1.4

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Security Boulevard

MAY 5, 2022

Over US $43 billion has been lost through Business Email Compromise attacks since 2016, according to data released this week by the FBI. The post $43 billion stolen through Business Email Compromise since 2016, reports FBI appeared first on The State of Security.

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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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Security Affairs

JANUARY 1, 2021

Cybercriminals are abusing Facebook ads in a large-scale phishing scam aimed at stealing victims’ login credentials. Researchers from security firm ThreatNix spotted a new large-scale campaign abusing Facebook ads. Experts are working with relevant authorities to take down the phishing infrastructure used in this campaign.

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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. A lot of water has flowed under the bridge since then. Norton got ‘ demergered ’ from Symantec in 2014 and then acquired LifeLock for $2.3

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 3, 2023

Our researchers found that the letters are dated between 2016 and 2021. This type of fraud could lead to parking fines, speeding tickets, or criminal activities associated with the registered owner, putting victims of the cloning scam in legal jeopardy. The permits were obtained through the 511.org

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2022

In the world of online scams, criminals care about one thing: Your money. Earlier this year, a woman in Tennessee was fooled in an online dating scam by a thief who stole $390,000 of her money. Still, there are a few things you can do to best protect yourself from falling for an online scam. Don’t ruin your device.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 5, 2022

Suffice to say, there is a lot of scamming potential here. Given how easy it is to perform HTML injections, clients and employees in Uber should keep a close eye on potential phishing and/or scam attacks. The email could contain a link to click on that leads to an external site that was made to look like it’s from Uber, too.

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SiteLock

AUGUST 27, 2021

Large companies have also fallen prey to these phishing email scams. In February 2016, Snapchat learned that not all things are so short-lived. In February 2016, Snapchat learned that not all things are so short-lived. In February 2016, an unknown cybercriminal gained access to CEO Kensett Moyle’s email account.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 5, 2022

pw accounts, various scams). Back then, they performed classic scams under the Rita Bent moniker. Figure 7: Scam conducted by the same attacker in the past. One of their preferred scams was phishing for Adobe login pages. The threat actor shared photos of himself back in 2016 and for some reason forgot about them.

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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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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2019

” The investigation on the scam operations in Spain started in 2016, crooks targeted victims in China. “Similar scams operate from several countries and usually prey on Chinese.” SecurityAffairs – phone scam, online fraud). ” continues the AP. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 2, 2018

In fact, the apparent ringleader of TDO reached out to KrebsOnSecurity in May 2016 with a remarkable offer. Snippets from a long email conversation in May 2016 with a hacker who introduced himself as Adam but would later share his nickname as “Arnie” and disclose that he was a member of The Dark Overlord.

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