Krebs on Security

JUNE 30, 2021

A counterfeit check image [redacted] that was intended for a person helping this fraud gang print and mail phony checks tied to a raft of email-based scams. the “car wrap” scam ). ” A typical confirmation letter that accompanies a counterfeit check for a car wrap scam.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 7, 2024

The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) 2023 report states that reported cybercrime losses reached $12.5 The 2023 Internet Crime Report published the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) reveals that reported cybercrime losses reached $12.5 billion in 2023. billion in 2023. billion in 2022 to $4.57 billion in losses.

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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. U-Admin was sold by an individual who used the hacker handle “ Kaktys ” on multiple cybercrime forums. The U-Admin phishing panel interface.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 10, 2020

Most people who who filed a tax return in 2018 and/or 2019 and provided their bank account information for a debit or credit should soon see an Economic Impact Payment direct-deposited into their bank accounts. More importantly, it appears one doesn’t really need to supply one’s AGI in 2018.

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The Last Watchdog

JUNE 9, 2022

That said, here are what I consider to be the Top 5 online threats seniors face today: •Computer tech support scams. These scams take advantage of seniors’ lack of computer and cybersecurity knowledge. Once they get remote access, fraudsters hack confidential details of older adults and scam them. Romance Scam.

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Identity Theft Scams Insurance Internet 274

Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

New research indicates that half of all phishing scams are now hosted on Web sites whose Internet address includes the padlock and begins with “[link]. That’s up from 25 percent just one year ago, and from 35 percent in the second quarter of 2018. But not all phishing scams get flagged so quickly.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 24, 2019

billion in 2018. Nevertheless, the information exposed by First American would be a virtual gold mine for phishers and scammers involved in so-called Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams, which often impersonate real estate agents, closing agencies, title and escrow firms in a bid to trick property buyers into wiring funds to fraudsters.

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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 9, 2021

Also, this greenhorn criminal clearly had bought into BriansClub’s advertising, which uses my name and likeness in a series of ads that run on all the top cybercrime forums. com was hosted at a company in Moscow with just a handful of other domains phishing popular cybercrime stores, including Jstashbazar[.]com, com, vclub[.]cards,

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Threatpost

MAY 10, 2019

Nigerian scam groups launched even more attacks in 2018 - and used more complex types of malware to reach more victims.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

is cybercrime forum. “We can examine your (or not exactly your) PHP code for vulnerabilities and backdoors,” reads his offering on several prominent Russian cybercrime forums. The cybercrime actor “upO” on Exploit[.]in RedBear’s profile on the Russian-language xss[.]is

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 5, 2024

While the above scene is fictional, it’s indicative of what the FBI and Department of Homeland Security agree is the fastest-growing cybercrime of the last three years. To illustrate how quickly the digital landscape has changed, a 2018 national survey found just 5 percent of US teens reported being victims of sextortion.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

The FBI’s Internal Crime Complaint Center (IC3) released the FBI 2019 Internet Crime Report , a document that outlines cybercrime trends over the past year. The figure that most of all capture our attention is that victims of cybercrime activities lost $3.5 BEC scams resulted in more than $1.7 Billion in 2019. million.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Security experts from Cisco Talos have uncovered two recent sextortion scam campaigns that appear to leverage on the Necurs botnet infrastructure. 30, 2018 through Oct. 26, 2018 — 58 days’ worth of spam.” Security Affairs – sextortion, cybercrime). ” reads the analysis published by Talos.

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Adam Levin

MARCH 16, 2020

billion in BEC scam-related losses the year before. “BEC/EAC is a sophisticated scam targeting both businesses and individuals performing a transfer of funds,” explained the report. ” The report warned that the methods used by hackers to perpetrate BEC scams were becoming more complicated and difficult to detect.

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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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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Having been in the field for so long, we have witnessed some major changes in the cybercrime world’s modus operandi. This report shares our insights into the Russian-speaking cybercrime world and the changes in how it operates that have happened in the past five years. million USD) monthly.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2021

A Latvian woman has been charged for their alleged role in a transnational cybercrime organisation. As touched on above, the group hired experts in a variety of cybercrime fields. Big scams, big numbers. The wire transfers listed range from $44,900 to $230,400 across most of 2017 to 2018. What happened this week, you ask?

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

These individuals said they were only customers of the person who had access to Twitter’s internal employee tools, and were not responsible for the actual intrusion or bitcoin scams that took place that day. ALWAYS IN DISCORD. Voku is one of several hacker handles used by a Canton, Mich.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

In May 2015, KrebsOnSecurity briefly profiled “ The Manipulaters ,” the name chosen by a prolific cybercrime group based in Pakistan that was very publicly selling spam tools and a range of services for crafting, hosting and deploying malicious email. One of several current Fudtools sites run by The Manipulaters.

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Security Boulevard

MARCH 22, 2022

For several years, the #1 Cybercrime type has been Business Email Compromise followed by the #2 of Romance Scam. The criminals have discovered how many people don't understand investing in cryptocurrency and have turned Investment Scams into a new money factory. . #1 Investment Scam Examples. Million dollars to $1.45

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2023

The top-level domain for the United States — US — is home to thousands of newly-registered domains tied to a malicious link shortening service that facilitates malware and phishing scams, new research suggests. As far back as 2018, Interisle found.US The findings come close on the heels of a report that identified.US

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

— ProtonMail (@ProtonMail) November 16, 2018. This is a very strange and anomalous scam attempt, the hackers used a mix of appealing info and political data. Why mention Avenatti in a scam attempt? The post Protonmail hacked … a very strange scam attempt appeared first on Security Affairs. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 18, 2021

However, documents from New York financial regulators show First American was unable to determine whether records were accessed prior to Jun 2018 (one year prior to fixing the weakness). According to the FBI, BEC scams are the most costly form of cybercrime today.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 6, 2019

The FBI published a security advisory to warn of cyber actors using online dating sites to conduct confidence/romance scam and recruit money mules. The FBI published a security advisory to warn of confidence/romance scams turning victims into money mules. SecurityAffairs – money mules, cybercrime). ” reads the advisory.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The Apollon market, one of the largest marketplaces, is likely exit scamming after the administrators have locked vendors’ accounts. The Apollon market , one of the darknet’s largest marketplaces, is likely exit scamming, vendors and customers reported suspicious behavior of its administrators. ” continues Darknetstats.

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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. RaaS rollout 2015 – 2018. The GandCrab RaaS that appeared in early 2018 was one of the last high-profile threats targeting individuals on a large scale. Targeting enterprises Late 2018 – present day.

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SecureWorld News

MAY 13, 2020

Cybercrime nearly always increases during times of crisis as criminals take advantage of panic and unease. The COVID-19 pandemic is certainly no exception, but victims of cybercrime often don’t know where to turn for help. Kristin Judge, founder of the Cybercrime Support Network, hopes to change that. billion in victim losses.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

These services can be used in a legitimate manner for several business purposes — such as price comparisons or sales intelligence — but they are massively abused for hiding cybercrime activity because they can make it difficult to trace malicious traffic to its original source. FORUM ACTIVITY? su between 2016 and 2019.

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The Security Ledger

APRIL 24, 2019

billion to Internet-enabled theft, fraud and exploitation in 2018, with business e-mail compromise scams resulting in the highest of these financial losses, according to the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3). The post FBI: Cybercrime Accounted for $2.7B in Losses in 2018 appeared first on The Security Ledger.

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Adam Levin

JULY 24, 2020

percent of 15,000 domain names probed directed users to websites associated with some form of cybercrime, including hacking, phishing, online fraud, or spamming. In 2018, security researchers discovered a perfect copy of Reddit.com, one of the five most-visited sites online, under the domain name Reddit.co (.co

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 13, 2021

I know this because in 2018 I was asked to give the keynote at an annual gathering of the Healthcare Information Sharing and Analysis Group (H-ISAC), an industry group centered on sharing information about cybersecurity threats. During my 2018 talk, I tried to emphasize the primary importance of being able to respond quickly to intrusions.

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Threatpost

APRIL 23, 2019

Overall, in 2018 the FBI received more than 351k reported scams with losses exceeding $2.7 billion.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2024

Two men, Thomas Pavey (aka “Dopenugget”) and Raheim Hamilton (aka “Sydney” and “Zero Angel”), have been charged in federal court in Chicago for operating the dark web marketplace “ Empire Market ” from 2018 to 2020. 1, 2018, the indictment states.” District Court in Chicago.”

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

Traditionally, the goal of these attacks has been gaining control over highly-prized social media accounts, which can sometimes fetch thousands of dollars when resold in the cybercrime underground. On July 15, a number of high-profile Twitter accounts were used to tweet out a bitcoin scam that earned more than $100,000 in a few hours.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Most of the domain names were purchased in August 2018, and all the content – photos, product descriptions, and prices – was copied from the legitimate website. For example, one of the fake websites offers to buy «Red Dead Redemption 2» for PC, while the most anticipated game of 2018 was only released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

a very strange scam attempt. a very strange scam attempt. a very strange scam attempt. a very strange scam attempt. Paper Copy. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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