Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 3, 2024

While hard to measure precisely, tech support scams accounted for $924M, according to the FBI’s 2023 Internet Crime Report. We’ve identified specific advertiser accounts that make up the bulk of fraudulent ads we have reported to Google this past year.

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Identity IQ

JUNE 20, 2023

What Are Social Engineering Scams? Thanks, Your CEO This common scenario is just one example of the many ways scammers may attempt to trick you through social engineering scams. In this scheme, scammers gain unauthorized access to a victim’s account and exploit it for malicious purposes.

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JUNE 17, 2022

In what appears as an operation first of its kind, Interpol has arrested over 2000 criminals who launched social engineering attacks worldwide. Usually, in such scams, cybercriminals manipulate victims in the disguise of company employees or individuals. More details about the scam will be updated shortly! .

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

This sender does not care who you want to donate to If those scam campaigns aren’t directly after your money, they might well be phishing for personal information. If you use Google or any other search engine to find the official site, do not click on the links in the sponsored ads. In fact, don’t engage with the call at all.

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Phishing scams continue to top the list of cybercrimes. Unfortunately, it’s likely 2022 will continue this trend as these types of social engineering attacks become more sophisticated. Phishing attacks account for more than 80% of reported security incidents. The statistics are alarming.

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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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Malwarebytes

MAY 8, 2024

Ticket scams are very common and apparently hard to stop. With a ticket scam, you pay for a ticket and you either don’t receive anything or what you get doesn’t get you into the venue. m) in ticket scams ahead of the UK leg of Taylor Swift’s Eras tour. Roughly 90% of these scams were said to have started on Facebook.

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Joseph Steinberg

JANUARY 19, 2024

When I answered, however, I heard a message that my account was overdue and that service was going to be cut off for non-payment. Of course, scam calls warning about the termination of utility service if a payment is not made immediately are nothing new. I was tempted to ask the caller if she could see my payment for $527.01

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2024

A scammer called using a real Google phone number to warn his Gmail account was being hacked, sent email security alerts directly from google.com, and ultimately seized control over the account by convincing him to click “yes” to a Google prompt on his mobile device.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 29, 2021

Suppose that, out of the blue, a Steam user tells you they’ve accidentally reported you for something you didn’t do, like making an illegal purchase, and that your Steam account is going to be suspended. There are some scams on Steam which have stood the test of time. The Steam scam playthrough. What do you do?

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

GoDaddy described the incident at the time in general terms as a social engineering attack, but one of its customers affected by that March 2020 breach actually spoke to one of the hackers involved. But we do know the March 2020 attack was precipitated by a spear-phishing attack against a GoDaddy employee.

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Security Through Education

MARCH 22, 2023

What does a government scam, an IT support scam and a romance scam have in common? They all use psychology and social engineering skills to convince their victims to take an action that is detrimental to them. Let’s see what lessons we can learn from scam artists to better protect ourselves.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2020

With the ongoing disruption to life and livelihood wrought by the Covid-19 pandemic, 2020 has been a fairly horrid year by most accounts. In almost every category — from epic breaches and ransomware to cybercrime justice and increasingly aggressive phishing and social engineering scams — 2020 was a year that truly went to eleven.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Security researcher Salvatore Lombardo shared details about a new instance of Nigerian fraud that he called ‘Beyond the border scam.’ ’ The 419 scam is a form of scam that requires the recipient to pay an upfront sum to receive a much larger reward later.

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eSecurity Planet

OCTOBER 22, 2024

These malware scams lure individuals with fake conference invitations designed to mimic legitimate meeting requests and exploit users’ trust. Cybercriminals employ social engineering techniques to trick you into believing you must resolve fictitious technical issues.

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Security Through Education

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

At Social-Engineer, LLC (SECOM), we define social engineering as “any act that influences a person to take an action that may or may not be in their best interest.” If you Google “social engineering,” you will get a very different and more negative definition. This same perspective is used in social engineering attacks.

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Malwarebytes

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

Romance scams continue to plague users, but their costs have risen to staggering heights, according to a Malwarebytes survey carried out last month via our weekly newsletter. However, with the return to in-person gatherings, our survey results show romance scams have hardly petered out. They conduct research, and follow a playbook.

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SecureList

DECEMBER 6, 2022

There are two main types of online fraud aimed at stealing user data and money: phishing and scams. Phishers primarily seek to extract confidential information from victims, such as credentials or bank card details, while scammers deploy social engineering to persuade targets to transfer money on their own accord.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2024

Offers that promise easy earnings can also bring with them a host of scams that deceive those who are genuinely seeking income opportunities. t is into this scenario that illicit practices such as moneny mules and reshipping scams can fit. In practice, packages arrived with prepaid shipping labels with stolen credit cards.

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Malwarebytes

NOVEMBER 23, 2023

So what better way to kick off the scamming season than by offering Black Friday sales on one of the most popular products around: a Stanley cup. To gain the buyer’s trust, the Facebook comments are populated by bots and/or compromised accounts. How do you avoid bad ads? Report bad ads.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 13, 2021

A US diplomatic mission in Nigeria warns of a visa scam affecting Nigerian citizens looking to move to the United States. It’s an old scam message, dressed up with a fresh coat of paint. It’s the same old scam, but in fresh packaging – don’t become a victim! It’s the same old scam, but in fresh packaging – don’t become a victim!

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Once hijacked the channel, attackers either sell it to the highest bidder or employ it in cryptocurrency scam scheme. The researchers identified around 15,000 actor accounts, most of which were created for this campaign. Hijacked channels ranged from $3 USD to $4,000 USD depending on the number of subscribers. Pierluigi Paganini.

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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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Webroot

JANUARY 5, 2022

Each year, as online shopping ramps up in the weeks before the holidays, so do online scams targeting the elderly. In fact, COVID-19, Zoom meetings, vaccination recommendations and travel warnings all provide ample and unique precedent for social engineering attacks. The most common types of online elder fraud.

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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. ever so anxious” said he was 19 and lived in the south of England with his mother. They would take a cut from each transaction.”

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CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 25, 2023

United States Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) along with two other agencies; National Security Agency (NSA) and Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC) have issued a warning to federal agencies against a phishing scam taking place through Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) Software.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

English: the international language of scamming. In one week, small campaigns can account for more than 100 million phishing / malware mails targeting Gmail users. Whether this is due to older users being theoretically more susceptible to scams, or simply that their online footprint is easier to find, is not decided either way.

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Security Boulevard

OCTOBER 4, 2024

In a pig butchering scam, fake trading apps first available on Google and Apple apps stores and later on phishing download sites lured victims into depositing money into fraudulent accounts, which was then stolen, according to a report from Group-IB.

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SecureList

JULY 5, 2023

A typical phishing scam aimed at a hot wallet user works as follows: hackers send email messages addressed as coming from a well-known crypto exchange and requesting the user to confirm a transaction or verify their wallet again. As is the case with hot wallets, scammers use social engineering techniques to get to users’ funds.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 19, 2021

It makes use of social engineering in a similar fashion to other pandemic-themed SMS texts, with a strong psychological aspect tied in for good measure. This doesn’t get a free pass to your bank account. It’s also worth noting there’s been a number of other scams along these same lines.

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Hacker Combat

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Google has reported that it disrupted the phishing attacks where threat actors had tried to hijack various YouTube accounts using cookie theft malware. The hijacker’s intent was to use those accounts to promote different crypto-currency scams. . Such accounts have a buying price ranging from $3 to $4,000. . and email.cz.

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SecureList

JULY 11, 2022

E-mail scammers typically combine social engineering with technical skills to bypass spam filters and persuade the recipient to reply. In terms of topics and techniques, text-based fraud can be divided into several types: Dating scams. Let’s take a look at these types of scams and see why they work. Dating scams.

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Adam Levin

JULY 10, 2020

billion records have already been exposed, and that’s only accounting for the first quarter of 2020. Phishing scams skyrocketed as citizens self-isolated during the lockdown, and social-engineering schemes defrauded Internet users of millions.”. For comparison, that’s a 273% increase over the first two quarters of 2019 combined.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2022

But it’s worth noting that sites are lurking in search engine results to potentially make it harder to file, not easier. Taxing times in search engine land. This product requires a registration code to activate, and this is where the search engine results come into play. One such tool used to complete tax returns is TurboTax.

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The Last Watchdog

APRIL 7, 2020

Here are key takeaways: Romance scams Like many modern companies, Zoosk, the popular San Francisco-based dating site, rests on infrastructure that’s predominantly cloud-based. they then began to use the stolen credentials to launch automated account takeovers. “So And the next step we saw was romance scams. We spoke at RSA 2020.

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Malwarebytes

AUGUST 13, 2021

A fair few cryptocurrency scams have been doing the rounds across 2021. Scammers set up fake customer support style accounts, then direct potential victims to phishing pages hosted elsewhere. Fake Elon Musk cryptocurrency scams. Rogue SpaceX crypto scams were doing the rounds back in June of this year. 419 crypto scam.

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Malwarebytes

JULY 6, 2022

Verified Twitter accounts are once again under attack from fraudsters, with the latest phish attempt serving up bogus suspension notices. Hijacking verified accounts on any platform is a big win for fraudsters. It gives credibility to their scams, especially when the accounts have large followings. Be careful out there.

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