SecureWorld News

MARCH 27, 2025

In today's digital world, cybercrime is a threat to our private data and security. And with Americans owning an average of 24 electronic items in their homes , neglecting to dispose of these items correctly is putting individuals at significant risk of cybercrime. What is cybercrime?

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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 few days after the check is deposited, it gets invariably canceled by the organization whose bank account information was on the check.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 20, 2025

March Madness is here, and while fans are busy filling out brackets and making last-minute bets, cybercriminals are running their own full-court presstargeting unsuspecting fans with phishing scams, fake betting apps, and credential-harvesting schemes.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 10, 2020

Most who are eligible for payments can expect to have funds direct-deposited into the same bank accounts listed on previous years’ tax filings sometime next week. Today, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) stood up a site to collect bank account information from the many Americans who don’t usually file a tax return.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2022

Earlier this month, the administrator of the cybercrime forum Breached received a cease-and-desist letter from a cybersecurity firm. The missive alleged that an auction on the site for data stolen from 10 million customers of Mexico’s second-largest bank was fake news and harming the bank’s reputation.

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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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SecureList

MARCH 25, 2025

Note that for mobile banking malware, we retrospectively revised the 2023 numbers to provide more accurate statistics. We also changed the methodology for PC banking malware by removing obsolete families that no longer use Trojan banker functionality, hence the sharp drop in numbers against 2023. million detections compared to 5.84

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

HAEICHI-II: Interpol arrested 1,003 individuals charged for several cybercrimes, including romance scams, investment frauds, and online money laundering. The authorities blocked 2,350 bank accounts linked to the illicit proceeds of online financial crime and intercepted over 27 million dollars. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 10, 2021

Group-IB, a global threat hunting and adversarial cyber intelligence company specializing in the investigation and prevention of high-tech cybercrime, has published a comprehensive analysis of fraud cases on a global scale. . The threat actors target the theft of personal and bank card details.

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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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Krebs on Security

JULY 23, 2020

As first reported here last year , First American’s website exposed 16 years worth of digitized mortgage title insurance records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images. It employs some 18,000 people and brought in $6.2

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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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Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

million from the German bank OLB by cloning customer debit cards and using them to cash out user funds across Brazil. million from the German bank Oldenburgische Landesbank (OLB) by cloning customer debit cards and using them to cash out user funds across Brazil. SecurityAffairs – OLB bank, cybercrime).

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Interpol has announced the arrests of 75 individuals as part of a coordinated international operation against an organized cybercrime ring called Black Axe. Interpol arrested 75 individuals as part of a coordinated global operation, codenamed Operation Jackal, against the cybercrime ring Black Axe. and the U.S.) million from victims.

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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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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 10, 2024

CISA adds Palo Alto Expedition, Android, CyberPanel and Nostromo nhttpd bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog DPRK-linked BlueNoroff used macOS malware with novel persistence Canada ordered ByteDance to shut down TikTok operations in the country over security concerns Critical bug in Cisco UWRB access points allows attackers to run commands (..)

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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. The year 2016 saw banks in Russia hacked one after another.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 24, 2024

During the month of Ramadan, Resecurity observed a significant increase in fraudulent activities and scams. During the month of Ramadan, Resecurity observed a significant increase in fraudulent activities and scams, coinciding with a surge in retail and online transactions.

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2024

Ways to deceive message board users There are two main types of message board scams. This type of fraud is known as scam 1.0 or a buyer scam , because the attacker poses as the seller to deceive the buyer. This is known as scam 2.0 or a seller scam , because the attacker deceives the seller posing as the buyer.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 21, 2022

The term “pig butchering” refers to a time-tested, heavily scripted, and human-intensive process of using fake profiles on dating apps and social media to lure people into investing in elaborate scams. In a more visceral sense, pig butchering means fattening up a prey before the slaughter. “The scale of this is so massive.

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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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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2020

When a reliable method of scamming money out of people, companies or governments becomes widely known, underground forums and chat networks tend to light up with activity as more fraudsters pile on to claim their share. And that’s exactly what appears to be going on right now as multiple U.S. ” CANARY IN THE GOLDMINE.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

The emails encouraged recipients to click a link to accept the cash back offer, and the link went to a look-alike domain that requested bank information. And as the phishing examples above demonstrate, many of today’s phishing scams use elements from hacked databases to make their lures more convincing. customers this month.

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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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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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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 2, 2024

Scammers who had already stolen someone’s bank account credentials could enter the target’s phone number and name, and the service would initiate an automated phone call to the target that warned them about unauthorized activity on their account. The NCA said it began investigating the service in June 2020. Just hang up, full stop.

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Heimadal Security

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The Spanish National Police dissolved a cybercrime ring that defrauded 300 people out of almost €12.3 The criminals then attempted to conceal the revenue from their crimes by transferring the funds from Spanish banks to offshore financial […]. million via phony investment websites.

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Heimadal Security

JANUARY 19, 2023

A New York individual pleaded guilty to bank fraud conspiracy using stolen credit cards obtained on dark web cybercrime marketplaces. Trevor Osagie, a 31-year-old man from the Bronx, admitted that he was a key member of a group that ran a credit card scam that affected 4,000 account holders and caused damages of $1.5

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2021

A Latvian woman has been charged for their alleged role in a transnational cybercrime organisation. The folks monitoring bank website flows to figure out how to defeat multi-factor encryption? Infect computers with TrickBot, spread across networks, grab banking details, and then steal funds. Big scams, big numbers.

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Security Affairs

MARCH 15, 2020

A cybercrime gang focused on Business Email Compromise (BEC) has started using coronavirus-themed scam emails in its attacks. The researchers received a coronavirus-themed scam email that attempted to trick victims into using a different bank account for the payment due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Webroot

MARCH 3, 2025

March is a time for leprechauns and four-leaf clovers, and as luck would have it, its also a time to learn how to protect your private data from cybercrime. This month, take advantage of all that NCPW offers, including access to free tools and information that can help you identify and prevent online scams, fraud, and identity theft.

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Identity IQ

APRIL 2, 2021

The recent Federal Bureau of Investigations Internet Crime Report shows that cybercrime has spiked, leaving hundreds of thousands of victims and costing more than $4 billion. Victims lost the most money to business email compromise scams, romance and confidence schemes and investment fraud. Phishing Scams. billion in 2019 to $4.2

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2021

Since the initial lockdown, we have seen the rise of certain types of cybercrime, including scams and fraud campaigns that either bank on the global COVID-19 pandemic or take advantage of potential victims that adhere to work-from-home measures. Future cybercrimes in the UK and beyond. Organized crime: Online fraud.

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eSecurity Planet

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Cyber security in banking has become the frontline defense against an ever-growing wave of digital threats. With billions of dollars and sensitive data at risk, banks are under constant pressure to stay one step ahead of cybercriminals. Table of Contents Toggle What is Cyber Security in Banking?

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Krebs on Security

MAY 24, 2019

The digitized records — including bank account numbers and statements, mortgage and tax records, Social Security numbers, wire transaction receipts, and drivers license images — were available without authentication to anyone with a Web browser. According to the FBI, BEC scams are the most costly form of cybercrime today.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

At the same time, banking organizations are a growing target for cyberattacks. One study by Trend Micro reported a 1,318% rise in ransomware attacks targeting banks in the first half of 2021. Many banks will have just a day and a half to report cyber incidents, under a new rule that will go into effect on May 1, 2022.

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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.

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