Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 9, 2024

” In a hypothetical example, a scammer uses a hacked government email account to request that a service provider place a hold on a specific bank or crypto account that is allegedly subject to a garnishment order, or party to crime that is globally sanctioned, such as terrorist financing or child exploitation.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 16, 2020

A federal fraud investigator who spoke with KrebsOnSecurity on condition of anonymity said many states simply don’t have enough controls in place to detect patterns that might help better screen out fraudulent unemployment applications, such as looking for multiple applications involving the same Internet addresses and/or bank accounts.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2022

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. The administrator responded to this empty threat by purchasing the stolen banking data and leaking it on the forum for everyone to download.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

“Over the past few months, we’ve seen actors provide access to services that call victims, appear as a legitimate call from a specific bank and deceive victims into typing an OTP or other verification code into a mobile phone in order to capture and deliver the codes to the operator. Then you can call your bank or whoever else you need.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 23, 2020

In too many cases, he said, the deposits are going into accounts where the beneficiary name does not match the name on the bank account. Perhaps the most galling example comes from Arkansas, whose site exposed the SSNs, bank account and routing numbers for some 30,000 applicants.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

According to this comprehensive breakdown of the phishing toolkit , the U-Admin control panel isn’t sold on its own, but rather it is included when customers contact the developer and purchase a set of phishing pages designed to mimic a specific brand — such as a bank website or social media platform.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 17, 2024

However, this is difficult to discern from listening to the song, which sounds very much like a step-by-step tutorial on how to commit wire fraud. “Listen up, I’m finna show y’all how to hit a bank,” Wire Fraud Tutorial begins. First you wanna get a bank log from a trusted site.

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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. Just hang up, full stop.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Don’t put them on hold while you call your bank; the scammers can get around that, too. Then you can call your bank or wherever else you need. Also, never provide any information in response to an unsolicited phone call. It doesn’t matter who claims to be calling: If you didn’t initiate the contact, hang up. Just hang up.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 3, 2023

One of the mobile malware families known to be abusing this obfuscation method has been dubbed Anatsa , which is a sophisticated Android-based banking trojan that typically is disguised as a harmless application for managing files.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 22, 2022

Russian banks are prohibited from processing payments for online gambling, and as a result many online gaming sites catering to Russian speakers have chosen to process credit card payments through Ukrainian financial institutions. . What Pavel does is he blackmails those Ukrainian banks using his connections and knowledge.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 18, 2022

It’s no accident that one of the most prolific scams going right now — the Zelle Fraud Scam — starts with a text message about an unauthorized payment that appears to come from your bank.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Sure, the card associations and your bank are quick to point out that you’re not liable for fraudulent charges that you report in a timely manner, whether it’s debit or a credit card. Does the bank reimburse you when your credit score takes a ding because your mortgage or car payment was late? Don’t hold your breath.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

“I had it in a bank security deposit box before that, but then I started thinking, ‘Hey, the bank might close or burn down and I could lose my seed phrase.'” . “I thought at the time that the bigger risk was losing a piece of paper with my seed phrase on it,” Connor said. Split up your assets.

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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. The messages addressed customers by name and referenced past order numbers and payment amounts tied to each account. The targeted phishing message that went out to classicfootballshirts.co.uk

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 25, 2021

Traditionally, the major crypto exchanges have said they’re not responsible for lost or stolen funds.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

Namely, the ability to route one’s malicious traffic through a computer that is geographically close to the consumer whose credit card they’re about to charge at some website, or whose bank account they’re about to empty.

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Security Boulevard

AUGUST 4, 2022

Email scammers sent an Uber to the home of an 80-year-old woman who responded to a well-timed email scam, in a bid to make sure she went to the bank and wired money to the fraudsters. The post Scammers Sent Uber to Take Elderly Lady to the Bank appeared first on Security Boulevard.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2021

Playing along, I said I was sorry to hear about his ordeal, and asked Mitch if there were any stolen cards issued by a particular bank or to a specific region that he was seeking. Mitch said he’d just made a deposit of $240 worth of bitcoin at BriansClub[.]com,

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2022

In the meantime, 911’s absence may coincide with a measurable (if only short-lived) reprieve in unwanted traffic to top Internet destinations, including banks, retailers and cryptocurrency platforms, as many former customers of the proxy service scramble to make alternative arrangements.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Tokazowski is an expert on the subject thanks to his founding in 2015 of the BEC Mailing List , a private discussion group comprising more than 530 experts from a cross section of security firms, Internet and email providers, banks and law enforcement agents that is dedicated to making life more difficult for scammers who perpetrate these schemes.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 31, 2023

domains were registered to attack some of the United States’ most prominent companies, including Bank of America, Amazon, Apple, AT&T, Citi, Comcast, Microsoft, Meta, and Target. Interisle’s newest study examined six million phishing reports between May 1, 2022 and April 30, 2023, and identified approximately 30,000.US

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2020

. “One Russian-speaking actor running a fraud network complained about their subordinates (“money mules”) in Italy, Spain and other countries being unable to withdraw funds, since they currently were afraid to leave their homes,” Intel 471 observed. ” Alex Holden , founder and CTO of Hold Security , agreed.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

One of the more common ways cybercriminals cash out access to bank accounts involves draining the victim's funds via Zelle, a "peer-to-peer" (P2P) payment service used by many financial institutions that allows customers to quickly send cash to friends and family.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

domains were registered to attack some of the United States’ most prominent companies, including Bank of America , Amazon, Apple , AT&T , Citi , Comcast , Microsoft , Meta , and Target. . “We will continue to work with registrars, cybersecurity firms and other stakeholders to make progress with this complex challenge.”

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 18, 2023

Flashpoint said MrMurza appears to be extensively involved in botnet activity and “drops” — fraudulent bank accounts created using stolen identity data that are often used in money laundering and cash-out schemes. PANOV Constella Intelligence , a threat intelligence firm that tracks breached databases, says lesstroy@mgn.ru

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

“A financially motivated threat actor closely connected with Lazarus that targets banks, casinos, fin-tech companies, POST software and cryptocurrency businesses, and ATMs,” Kaspersky wrote of BlueNoroff in Dec. The North Korean regime is known to use stolen cryptocurrencies to fund its military and other state projects.

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 14, 2019

Some of the bank accounts and payment recipients from scams tied to these listings are pictured here. In case anyone would like to follow up on this research, other domains used by these scammers include airbnb.longterm-airbnb[.]co.uk co.uk , airbnb.pt-anuncio[.]com com , airbnb.request-online[.]com com , and airbnb-invoice[.]com.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Much of this fraud exploits weak authentication methods used by states that have long sought to verify applicants using static, widely available information such as Social Security numbers and birthdays. Many states also lacked the ability to tell when multiple payments were going to the same bank accounts.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 30, 2019

. “At this point, we believe this to be an email phishing incident in which an unauthorized third party used a third-party system to generate an email campaign to deliver what we believe to be a banking trojan,” said Dan Higgins , UR’s chief information officer.

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Krebs on Security

JANUARY 22, 2019

. ; Facebook ; Gap (Apparel) Inc ; Fifth Third Bancorp ; Hearst Communications ; Hilton Interntional ; ING Bank ; the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT); McDonalds Corp. ; NBC Universal Media ; NRG Energy ; Oath, Inc (a.k.a Yahoo + AOL) ; Oracle ; Tesla Motors ; Time Warner ; US Bank; US Steel Corp.;

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Krebs on Security

JULY 10, 2022

That is, he said, unless Experian’s customers — banks and other lenders — choose to vote with their feet because too many people with frozen credit files are having to deal with unauthorized applications for new credit.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

Rose said even though a successful SIM swap often gives the perpetrator access to traditional bank accounts, the attackers seem to be mainly interested in stealing cryptocurrencies. OG accounts typically can be resold for thousands of dollars. ” FAKE IDs AND PHONY NOTES. I included the specifics from Ortiz’s advice in my Aug.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Vega also became known as someone who had the inside track on “ unlimited cashouts ,” a globally coordinated cybercrime scheme in which crooks hack a bank or payment card processor and use cloned cards at cash machines to rapidly withdraw millions of dollars in just a few hours.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 21, 2022

Don’t provide your banking information, Social Security Number, copies of your identification or passport, or any other sensitive information to anyone online or to a site you do not know is legitimate. Don’t talk about your current financial status to unknown and untrusted people.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 8, 2022

One breach taking your login from a gaming forum can quickly become something that exposes Government service logins or bank accounts. Password reuse is one big reason for credential stuffing (using stolen data across additional sites) being so popular. Tips for locking down after an SSN breach.

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Security Boulevard

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

A financial cybercrime group calling itself the Disneyland Team has been making liberal use of visually confusing phishing domains that spoof popular bank brands using Punycode, an Internet standard that allows web browsers to render domain names with non-Latin alphabets like Cyrillic and Ukrainian.

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