Security Through Education

MARCH 16, 2022

In fact, each year we see new versions of tax scams abounding. What are some of these scams we have seen, and how can we identify such schemes? The IRS reported on a scam that they first saw in 2019 related to social security numbers. Signs of a Scam. How to Respond to the Scam. In Years Past.

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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. “just dont want my irl getting sus[pended].” ALWAYS IN DISCORD.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Unfortunately, scams are a fact of life online. The virtual ties that bind us are international now: Our public telephone numbers, social media accounts, email addresses, messaging apps, dating profiles, and even our physical mailboxes, can all be reached by any criminal and con artist from anywhere in the world.

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Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

APRIL 9, 2020

Earlier this year, the FBI released the 2019 Internet Crime Report. With the high amount of cybercriminal activity including hacking attempts and phishing scams, the information in this report is quite timely. BEC is a sophisticated scam targeting businesses and individuals performing wire transfer payments.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 6, 2021

Unless you keep your social media at a pole’s distance, you have probably heard that an absolutely enormous dataset—containing over 500 million phone numbers—has been made public. Some reports say the data was scraped in 2019, others talk about early 2020. Limiting what you share.

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SecureList

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Case in point: we’re already seeing scams targeting World Cup fans more than a year out from the event. One of the most common scams is to create a fake website offering great deals for popular shopping portals. Phishing scam urging users to fill out a quick survey for a fake promotion.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 5, 2021

Researchers explore the insecure world of the subdomain (Source: Can i take your subdomain) Cyber insurance model is broken, consider banning ransomware payments (Source: The Register) How facial recognition solutions can safeguard the hybrid workplace (Source: Help Net Security) Capital One hacker faces fresh charges for 2019 hacking spree (Source: (..)

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Hot for Security

APRIL 5, 2021

User data appears to have been scraped in 2019 by malicious actors exploiting a vulnerability in the platform. “This is old data that was previously reported on in 2019. We found and fixed this issue in August 2019,” Liz Bourgeois, Facebook’s Director of Strategic Response Communications, said in a tweet.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Threat actors involved in tech support scams have been running a browser locker campaign from November 2020 until February 2021 on the world’s largest adult platforms including PornHub. In all, we detected close to 100 decoy domain names set up as “advertising landing pages” used to redirect victims to browser locker scams.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The stolen data is only worth something in so far as it can be used to extract money from somebody, so we expect it will be used in social engineering attacks, like scams and phishing. In 2019, Microsoft’s Alex Weinert wrote that “Based on our studies, your account is more than 99.9%

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Financially motivated threat actors are using Cookie Theft malware in phishing attacks against YouTube creators since late 2019. Once hijacked the channel, attackers either sell it to the highest bidder or employ it in cryptocurrency scam scheme. The hackers used fake collaboration opportunities (i.e.

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Hacker Combat

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The hijacker’s intent was to use those accounts to promote different crypto-currency scams. . The crypto-currency scams, which started in 2019, saw hackers recruit their targets on one Russian-speaking platform. They had the targeted unsuspecting persons with phishing emails that promised phoney collaboration opportunities.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 20, 2020

The crooks exploited online tools and technology along with social engineering tactics to target the victims and steal usernames, passwords, and bank accounts. Okpoh, Benson and Kayode conducted romance scams and were involved in money laundering along with Uzuh. ” continues OFAC.

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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.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

BEC or Email Account Compromise (EAC) was known as the $26 billion scam in 2019. The basics of the BEC scam are explained in a July 2021 SecureWorld article that interviewed Stephen Dougherty of the U.S. Understanding BEC scams. BEC is a sophisticated scam with multiple victims. Secret Service.

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Spinone

DECEMBER 17, 2019

Many of these attacks prey upon human nature by using social engineering tactics to trick a user into inadvertently allowing ransomware onto their system, under the guise of something legitimate. Fake applications are used for many different kinds of scams, including the spreading of ransomware.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

APRIL 16, 2021

The emails pose as company updates and are often socially engineered to look like they have been personally tailored to the recipient. Preventing phishing attacks, like the latest phony HR scams, should not fall on individual employees alone. They are fairly convincing emails at first, second and even third glances.

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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. In November 2019, the criminals behind a ransomware species called Maze started a new trend that is currently gaining momentum on the dark web. The FBI-themed ransomware was one of the most prolific infections at the time.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 5, 2021

Bad actors will certainly use the information for social engineering, scamming, hacking and marketing. The data was amassed by threat actors by exploiting a vulnerability fixed in 2019 that allowed data scraping from the social network. — Alon Gal (Under the Breach) (@UnderTheBreach) April 3, 2021.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 10, 2019

I had the chance at RSA 2019 to discuss this war of attrition with Will LaSala, director of security services and security evangelist at OneSpan, a Chicago-based provider of anti-fraud, e-signature and digital identity solutions to 2,000 banks worldwide.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 20, 2022

In 2019, it happened again in Singapore but on a much smaller scale. 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. The pilfered details could be used for all manner of scam attempts.

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SC Magazine

JULY 9, 2021

Today’s columnist, Rob Shavell of Abine, points out that better employee training about deepfake technology can possibly stop the famous 2019 case where a UK executive was duped by phone into transferring $200,000+ to a Hungarian bank, but companies also need to do a better job of managing the personal information of employees.

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 5, 2022

Suffice to say, there is a lot of scamming potential here. As BleepingComputer said , it’s similar to the flaw disclosed by Youssef Sammouda in 2019 which allowed anyone to send an email on behalf of Facebook using an “ @fb.com ” email address. The post Careful!

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Identity IQ

MAY 7, 2021

It’s one of the fastest-growing cybersecurity threats today, growing a staggering 300% since 2019 and leading to consumer losses of $3.5 Once they have access to an account with sufficient authority, cybercriminals can use that trusted email address to scam other companies into making fraudulent payments or just distribute malware en mass.

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Webroot

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Hackers, never at a loss for creative deception, have engineered new tactics for exploiting the weakest links in the cybersecurity chain: ourselves! Social engineering and business email compromise (BEC) are two related cyberattack vectors that rely on human error to bypass the technology defenses businesses deploy to deter malware.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 20, 2022

Business Email Compromise/Email Account Compromise (BEC/EAC) is a sophisticated scam that targets both entities and individuals who perform legitimate transfer-of-funds requests. Crooks started using virtual meeting platforms due to the popularity they have reached during the pandemic.

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Threatpost

AUGUST 26, 2019

Fraudsters are using social media to spam, steal information, spread propaganda and execute social-engineering campaigns.

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Security Boulevard

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Europol correctly describes the primary method of SIM-swapping when they say in the press release above, "This is typically achieved by the criminals exploiting phone service providers to do the swap on their behalf, either via a corrupt insider or using social engineering techniques.". How do Phone Company Insiders enable these scams?

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SecureList

MARCH 1, 2021

In their campaigns to infect mobile devices, cybercriminals always resort to social engineering tools, the most common of these passing a malicious application off as another, popular and desirable one. Number of attacks on mobile users in 2019 and 2020 ( download ). Whereas it was 12.85% in 2019, it reached 14.62% in 2020.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 30, 2020

The campaign, dubbed PerSwaysion due to the extensive abuse of Microsoft Sway, has been active since at least mid-2019 and was attributed to Vietnamese speaking developers and Nigerian operators. ?ybercriminals The account access could be sold in bulk to other cybercriminals to conduct traditional monetary scams.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 22, 2021

Business Email Compromise (BEC) and Email Account Compromise (EAC) are scams targeting individuals or organizations performing transfers of funds. This scam is most often used when an attacker compromises legitimate email accounts through social engineering or computer intrusion techniques. Tech support fraud. Ransomware.

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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.

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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. That shortfall can be seen in windfall of criminal profits. Ransomware hacking groups extorted at least $144.35

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SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 18, 2022

It's not every day one gets to talk with the former CIO of the Executive Office of the President at The White House (and first female to hold the position), 2019 Women Cybersecurity Leader of the Year, and current CEO, Senior Partner and President of Fortalice Solutions, LLC. RELATED: 5 Emotions Used in Social Engineering Attacks ].

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BH Consulting

JUNE 13, 2023

Almost three-quarters of breaches (74 per cent) involve the human element through error, social engineering, stolen credentials or misusing privileges. Half of all social engineering attacks involve ‘pretexting’, where criminals fabricate a story to trick the victim.

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SC Magazine

MARCH 29, 2021

Carding scams using stolen credit-card details are on the rise and retailers should ensure that purchasers are correctly identified through CVV, full address and other fields to weed out fraudsters, as genuine card details are widely available to criminals operating on dark web forums.

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Pen Test Partners

AUGUST 29, 2024

While still better than no MFA, SMS-based verification has vulnerabilities: SIM swap scams: As mentioned, if someone can transfer your phone number to their SIM card, they can intercept your MFA codes. A widely publicised example of a SIM swap attack is the hacking of Jack Dorsey’s Twitter account in 2019.

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