Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

SpyLoan apps exploit social engineering to gain sensitive user data and excessive permissions, leading to extortion, harassment, and financial loss. Some of the malicious apps were promoted through deceptive advertising on social media. Similar scams were reported globally. ” concludes the report.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

These tools can also answer an endless array of factual questions, much like the separate AI tool Perplexity, which advertises itself not as a search engine, but as the worlds first answer engine. Importantly, the attack methods here are not new. Importantly, the attack methods here are not new. But sometimes the AI pushes back.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 19, 2020

Allen said a typical voice phishing or “vishing” attack by this group involves at least two perpetrators: One who is social engineering the target over the phone, and another co-conspirator who takes any credentials entered at the phishing page and quickly uses them to log in to the target company’s VPN platform in real-time.

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Hot for Security

MARCH 2, 2021

Internet scams are everywhere, inflicting billions of dollars in reported losses from victims each year. Anyone can fall for online scams, as tactics are tailored to the interests of all age groups. Let’s take a closer look at some of the most common scams: Coronavirus-related scams.

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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. “Without the buyers and the resellers, there is no incentive to hack into all these social media and gaming companies.”

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Each advertises their claimed access to T-Mobile systems in a similar way. The prices advertised for a SIM-swap against T-Mobile customers in the latter half of 2022 ranged between USD $1,000 and $1,500, while SIM-swaps offered against AT&T and Verizon customers often cost well more than twice that amount.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2020

These restrictions have created a burgeoning underground market for reshipping scams, which rely on willing or unwitting residents in the United States and Europe — derisively referred to as “ reshipping mules ” — to receive and relay high-dollar stolen goods to crooks living in the embargoed areas. .

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Hot for Security

MAY 24, 2021

While the ongoing pandemic and vaccination campaigns ushered in a new wave of creative scams, some malicious actors prefer to stick to old-fashioned scams that have proven efficient in the past. 79.72% of scam emails appear to be sent from IP addresses in Germany, targeting users in Europe and North America.

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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. We know from our telemetry that the malicious advertiser is targeting victims from the U.S. Redirection chain. and the U.K. Fake dating sites.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 8, 2020

. “Some of their goals include accessing sensitive information, user names and passwords, conducting denial of service attacks, spreading disinformation, and carrying out scams,”. Review the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) Tips on Avoiding Social Engineering & Phishing Scams at: [link].

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Security Affairs

MARCH 8, 2020

See Using Caution with Email Attachments and Avoiding Social Engineering and Phishing Scams for more information. Review the Federal Trade Commission’s page on Charity Scams for more information. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

MAY 3, 2022

A real world scam which sucks the fun out of craft fairs has caused nothing but stress for victims. This isn’t an isolated case; this specific scam targeted people all across the UK. How does this fake vendor fair scam work? The really interesting thing about all this is that fake fair scams aren’t some weird anomaly.

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. Leveraging its English proficiency, the collective uses social engineering for initial access. Within six hours, the attacker began encrypting the organization’s systems.

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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. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, cybercrime).

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Security Through Education

MAY 21, 2024

Whether you’re planning a vacation, gearing up for outdoor activities, or simply enjoying some downtime, it’s crucial to remain vigilant against the wide array of scams that tend to surge during this time of the year. The sense of urgency created by limited time offers can lure unsuspecting victims into being scammed.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 26, 2018

The man is suspected to have scammed more than six executives in the Bay Area. Typically the attacker gathers the information to respond the questions through social engineering or through OSINT activities. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

million (roughly $750 million) through authorized and unauthorized fraud and scams in the UK alone. This is no surprise as phishing is often the prelude to more serious threats like ransomware, breaches, and BEC scams. This includes fraudulent advertising on search engines, fake websites and posts on social media.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 29, 2024

The concept of the term "malvertising" (a portmanteau of "malicious advertising") suggests an overlap with ads, albeit dodgy ones, and therefore fuels the fallacy that its impact hardly goes beyond frustration. Again, a raid as harmful as that commences with what appears to be garden-variety deceptive advertising trickery.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

Business email compromise scam (BEC) continues to target organizations worldwide, crooks stole $742,000 from Ocala City in Florida. The City of Ocala in Florida is the last victim in order of time of a profitable business email compromise scam (BEC) attack, fraudsters redirected over $742,000 to a bank account under their control.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Like other social media platforms, LinkedIn is no stranger to bots attracted to special keywords and hashtags. Think “I was laid off”, “I’m #opentowork” and similar phrases that can wake up a swarm of bots hungry to scam someone new. If you ever fall victim to a scam, time is of the essence.

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 18, 2022

And now another issue for the agricultute sector: Sophisticated scams involving fake tractors and sale portals have cost certain businesses $1.2 As with so many internet scams, it begins with fake online adverts. These take the form of both fake websites and bogus ads placed on genuine advertising platforms.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Group-IB assisted Paxful, an international peer-to-peer cryptocurrency marketplace, in countering web-bot and social engineering attacks. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Copyright (C) 2014 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Malwarebytes

DECEMBER 11, 2022

There’s not many individual scams which can put “18 years and counting” on their resume. Of course, this was tied into a nonsensical scam about recovering lots of lost money should he be brought safely back. “Mark Ruffalo deepfake romance scam” What a sentence. spaaaaaaaaaace. What a world.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

They profited from a scam, popular some time before, which sold “magic pills” — counterfeit drugs and dietary supplements purported to cure even serious chronic diseases. This scam’s elderly victims spent hundreds and thousands of dollars on the products, borrowing from friends and taking loans. . Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 6, 2023

Newbies get a taste of what phishing tools can do, pull off their first scam and wish for more, which is when they will be offered paid content. “To attract larger audiences, scam operators advertise their services, promising to teach others how to phish for serious cash.” ” continues the report.

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SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

Once a URL is entered, the bot will generate several scam links targeting users of the service. Archive with phishing kits posted in a Telegram scam channel Contents of a free phishing kit archive Phishers also share stolen personal data with their subscribers, tagging it with information on whether it was verified or not.

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SecureWorld News

DECEMBER 20, 2022

This could help improve the scammers in writing better and much more convincing scam emails than we are used to.". I would go as far to say it's results are successfully being manipulated by SEO and / or contains way to many pointless results due to focus on advertising. The grammar and language is correct and natural sounding.

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SecureList

JUNE 26, 2023

According to a report by the Barracuda cybersecurity company, in 2021, businesses with fewer than 100 employees experienced far more social engineering attacks than larger ones. That same year saw one of the worst ransomware incidents in history, the Kaseya VSA supply-chain attack. Scammers often reach employees by e-mail.

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Security Affairs

JULY 29, 2018

According to a non-public alert shared with state and local government agencies by the Multi-State Information Sharing and Analysis Center (MS-ISAC), the scam arrives in a Chinese postmarked envelope and includes a “confusingly worded typed letter with occasional Chinese characters. ”” reads the post published by Brian Krebs.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 4, 2021

Online scammers have been doing their homework since the dawn of the internet, improving old ruses and sharpening their social engineering skills for maximum results. As you book your summer vacation, beware of fraudulent emails, phone calls, fake websites and posts on social media advertising special deals and search engines.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 26, 2023

Many of today's most dangerous threats are delivered through social engineering, i.e., by tricking users into giving up their data, or downloading malware from an infected email attachment. Unsolicited phone calls and websites that do this are known as tech support scams. Disable web push notif ications.

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Digital Shadows

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

In this blog, we’ll take a look at the components of a crypto scam, including investors, designers, developers, and marketers, as well as a few interesting trends that characterize this black market. Ocean’s Crypto: Putting the Team Together Crypto Scam Investors Starting a cryptocurrency scams require a significant amount of capital.

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Security Through Education

AUGUST 22, 2024

Why They Work The success of online shopping scams is largely due to their exploitation of human psychology and trust. The Holiday Phishing Scam: These scams increase during festive periods when shoppers are more active online. Written by Josten Peña Human Risk Analyst Social-Engineer, LLC

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SecureList

AUGUST 5, 2021

Workers in other fields were invited to calculate their entitled payout by clicking the Get Social Assistance button. Parcel scam: buy one, get none. Therefore, any offer to buy them is evidently a scam. Another traditional scam aims to persuade the user that they are the lucky winner of a tidy sum.

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Malwarebytes

APRIL 14, 2022

Some of them appear to be advertisements. If it’s a phish, a social engineering trick of some kind, or even something malware related, block and report. Clicking the big grey “verify account” button should, in theory, lead you to an Apple phishing page. However, that’s not the case here.

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Security Through Education

DECEMBER 21, 2022

This time of year also brings a surge of promotional scams. With the increase of malware related scams mentioned at the outset, it is important to be on guard when searching through our inbox. These may come in the form of phishing emails, text messages or advertisements while online shopping. Beware of Delivery Scams!

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Digital Shadows

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The attacker gained initial access to two employee accounts by carrying out social engineering attacks on the organization’s help desk twice. Leveraging its English proficiency, the collective uses social engineering for initial access. Within six hours, the attacker began encrypting the organization’s systems.

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