SecureList

AUGUST 10, 2022

VileRAT is a Python implant, part of an evasive and highly intricate attack campaign against foreign exchange and cryptocurrency trading companies. JSON list of installed security products names (e.g., [“windows defender”, “kaspersky internet security”]), as retrieved from WMI by VileRAT. book-advp[.]com.

Cryptocurrency 118

Cryptocurrency Encryption Social Engineering Passwords 118

Identity IQ

APRIL 6, 2022

Here are some outlined by the FBI as particularly prevalent right now: Utility or cable/internet scam. In this scenario, a scammer posing as someone from a utility company or internet provider sends a notification that your bill is past due and that these services can be shut off if this is not remedied. Travel industry scams.

Scams 130

Scams Identity Theft Accountability Internet 130

The Last Watchdog

OCTOBER 19, 2021

I highly recommend reading Zuboff’s New York Times Book of the Year, The Age of Surveillance Capitalism: The Fight for A Human Future At the New Frontier of Power as well as viewing Rifkin’s riveting speech, The Third Industrial Revolution: A Radical New Sharing Economy. Can you please outline where Wildland fits in this debate ?

Internet 223

Internet Internet Cryptocurrency Software 223

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

What will cyber security look like now that those tools are all over the internet? Reports are coming out linking North Korea to illegal online activities related to cryptocurrency. How are some governments using the Internet to threaten world peace in one way or another? Is making the internet a safe place technically possible?

Spyware 98

Spyware Hacking Ransomware Surveillance 98

CyberSecurity Insiders

JANUARY 26, 2022

Each year, O’Reilly gathers usage data across its publishing partners and learning modes, from books and videos to live online training courses, virtual events, practice exams, and interactive scenarios, to provide technology leaders with the trends, topics, and issues to watch in the coming year.

Data breaches 84

Data breaches Cybersecurity Cryptocurrency Technology 84

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. Group-IB and CryptoIns introduce the worlds first insurance against cyber threats for cryptocurrency exchanges. A new round of the weekly SecurityAffairs newsletter arrived! The best news of the week with Security Affairs.

Banking 95

Banking Advertising Surveillance Insurance 95

Security Affairs

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In the early afternoon of Friday 12 May 2017, the media broke the news of a global computer security attack carried out through a malicious code capable of encrypting data residing in information systems and demanding a ransom in cryptocurrency to restore them, the Wannacry ransomware. Twitter @Slvlombardo.

Malware 111

Malware Computers and Electronics Encryption Ransomware 111

Security Affairs

SEPTEMBER 22, 2019

France and Germany will block Facebooks Libra cryptocurrency. Magecart attackers target mobile users of hotel chain booking websites. Astaroth Trojan leverages Facebook and YouTube to avoid detection. Data leak exposes sensitive data of all Ecuador ‘citizens. MobiHok RAT, a new Android malware based on old SpyNote RAT.

Adware 81

Adware Advertising Password Management Hacking 81

Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 18, 2018

Let me inform you that my new book, “Digging in the Deep Web” is online with a special deal. The best news of the week with Security Affairs. 20% discount. Kindle Edition. Paper Copy. a very strange scam attempt. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

Banking 79

Banking Scams Advertising Cybercrime 79

ForAllSecure

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

For others, it means cryptocurrency. Guido Vranken returns to The Hacker Mind to discuss his CryptoFuzz tool on GitHub, as well as his experience fuzzing and finding vulnerabilities in cryptographic libraries and also within cryptocurrencies such as Ethereum. That means it falls to you to protect your cryptocurrency.

Cryptocurrency 52

Cryptocurrency InfoSec Software Encryption 52

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

The title of the accessed web-pages are collected and compared with the target organizations and services hardcoded and defined by crooks, generally the name of the banking portals, cryptocurrency portals, and financial firms. After opening the URL distributed on the email body, a ZIP file is then downloaded from the Internet.

Antivirus 133

Antivirus Malware Banking Internet 133

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 25, 2022

Dancho Danchev’s Upcoming Cybercrime Research OSINT and Threat Intelligence Gathering E-Book Titles – Sample E-Book Covers. Introducing Astalavista.box.sk’s “Threat Crawler” Project – Earn Cryptocurrency for Catching the Bad Guys – Hardware Version Available. Dancho Danchev’s Twitter Archive – Direct Download – [ZIP].

Cybercrime 96

Cybercrime Hacking Scams Ransomware 96

SecureList

AUGUST 5, 2021

or cryptocurrency secured by these resources. Global internet portals (20.85%) stepped in as this quarter’s leader. Offers of quick earnings with minimal effort remain one of the most common types of fraud. In Q2 2021, cybercriminals diversified their easy-money schemes. respectively.

Phishing 135

Phishing Banking Scams Computers and Electronics 135

Krebs on Security

APRIL 11, 2022

Online scams that try to separate the unwary from their cryptocurrency are a dime a dozen, but a great many seemingly disparate crypto scam websites tend to rely on the same dodgy infrastructure providers to remain online in the face of massive fraud and abuse complaints from their erstwhile customers. The ark-x2[.]org ” Ark-x2[.]org

Scams 230

Scams Cryptocurrency Media Hacking 230

Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 14, 2023

For many years, Ika held a key position at one of Russia’s largest Internet service providers, and his (mostly glowing) reputation as a reliable provider of web hosting to the Russian cybercrime community gave him an encyclopedic knowledge about nearly every major player in that scene at the time. .” WHERE ARE THEY NOW?

Cybercrime 282

Cybercrime Accountability Advertising Computers and Electronics 282

ForAllSecure

MARCH 1, 2022

In the book The Art of Invisibility , I challenged my co author Kevin Mitnick to document the steps needed to become invisible online. However, on the internet, nothing is truly deleted. This was before the commercial internet when it was easier to forge documents to create new identities today. There are a lot. It's crazy.

Hacking 52

Hacking Mobile Cryptocurrency VPN 52

Krebs on Security

AUGUST 5, 2021

Among the oldest tricks in the book is to fake one’s demise or retirement and invent a new identity. After acknowledging someone had also seized their Internet servers, DarkSide announced it was folding. A rough timeline of major ransomware operations and their reputed links over time. Department of Justice.

Ransomware 351

Ransomware Cybercrime Malware System Administration 351

SecureWorld News

OCTOBER 15, 2020

The teens also took over Twitter accounts of several cryptocurrency companies regulated by the New York State Department of Financial Services (NYDFS). I still remember reading hacker Kevin Mitnick's book "Ghost in the Wires" a few years ago. That helped trigger an investigation by NYDFS. At approximately 3:18 p.m., and 4:12 p.m.,

Social Engineering 104

Social Engineering Media Scams Financial Services 104

Malwarebytes

JANUARY 3, 2024

This conclusion matches that of the 2022 Internet Crime Report produced by the FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3), which attributed almost $84 million dollars to BEC and over $75 million to investment fraud. Popular investment opportunities offered by the criminals include stocks, cryptocurrencies, and pension funds.

Scams 119

Scams Cryptocurrency Social Engineering Internet 119

Security Affairs

JULY 2, 2023

WordPress sites using the Ultimate Member plugin are under attack LockBit gang demands a $70 million ransom to the semiconductor manufacturing giant TSMC Avast released a free decryptor for the Windows version of the Akira ransomware Iran-linked Charming Kitten APT enhanced its POWERSTAR Backdoor miniOrange’s WordPress Social Login and Register plugin (..)

Hacking 98

Hacking Ransomware Cybercrime Malware 98

Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 3, 2024

.” Ian Ahl , senior vice president of threat research at Permiso, said attackers in possession of a working cloud account traditionally have used that access for run-of-the-mill financial cybercrime, such as cryptocurrency mining or spam. “And these are typically things the large language models won’t be able to talk about.”

Accountability 290

Accountability Artificial Intelligence Web Fraud Cryptocurrency 290

SecureList

JANUARY 28, 2021

From the rise of remote working and the global shift in consumer habits to huge profits booked by internet entertainers, we are witnessing how overwhelmingly important the connected infrastructure has become for the daily functioning of society. What does all this mean for privacy?

Marketing 94

Marketing Data collection Government Encryption 94

SecureList

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

In one simple scheme, a fraudulent site asked users to enter their login credentials to complete their booking these credentials ended up in criminal hands. Sometimes, the fake login form appeared under multiple brand names at once (for example, both Booking and Airbnb).

Phishing 80

Phishing Scams Cryptocurrency Computers and Electronics 80

Malwarebytes

MAY 21, 2023

Since OpenAI allows developers to modify its official APIs, some have tested a few nefarious theories by creating ChaosGPT, an internet-connected “evil” version that runs actions users do not intend. However, even when ChatGPT is engaged in ominous activities, the outcomes at present are rather harmless.

Cybersecurity 92

Cybersecurity Artificial Intelligence Social Engineering Engineering 92