Schneier on Security

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Scammers are hacking Google Forms to send email to victims that come from google.com. Brian Krebs reports on the effects. Boing Boing post.

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Adam Griffin is still in disbelief over how quickly he was robbed of nearly $500,000 in cryptocurrencies. Unfortunately for Griffin, years ago he used Google Photos to store an image of the secret seed phrase that was protecting his cryptocurrency wallet. Image: Shutterstock, iHaMoo. io ) that mimicked the official Trezor website.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 11, 2024

Borrowing from the playbook of ransomware purveyors, the darknet narcotics bazaar Incognito Market has begun extorting all of its vendors and buyers, threatening to publish cryptocurrency transaction and chat records of users who refuse to pay a fee ranging from $100 to $20,000. ALL of them are Exit Scams.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Another South Korean cryptocurrency exchange was hacked, this time the victim is Upbit that lost $48.5 million in cryptocurrency. . The South Korean cryptocurrency exchange Upbit disclosed a security breach, the company told its customers that hackers have stolen $48.5 SecurityAffairs – Upbit exchange, hacking).

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Bleeping Computer

JANUARY 3, 2024

The Twitter account of American cybersecurity firm and Google subsidiary Mandiant was hijacked earlier today to impersonate the Phantom crypto wallet and share a cryptocurrency scam. [.]

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 26, 2023

Media coverage understandably focused on GoDaddy’s admission that it suffered three different cyberattacks over as many years at the hands of the same hacking group. One multifactor option — physical security keys — appears to be immune to these advanced scams.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 22, 2020

The New York Times last week ran an interview with several young men who claimed to have had direct contact with those involved in last week’s epic hack against Twitter. ” Twice in the past year, the OGUsers forum was hacked , and both times its database of usernames, email addresses and private messages was leaked online.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

That allowed them to seize control over a target’s incoming phone calls and text messages, which were used to reset the password for email, social media and cryptocurrency accounts tied to those numbers. Interestingly, the conspiracy appears to have unraveled over a business dispute between the two men. In a private message dated Nov.

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The Hacker News

MARCH 17, 2021

A Florida teen accused of masterminding the hacks of several high-profile Twitter accounts last summer as part of a widespread cryptocurrency scam pled guilty to fraud charges in exchange for a three-year prison sentence. Graham Ivan Clark, 18, will also serve an additional three years on probation.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

Resecurity has identified an increasing trend of cryptocurrency counterfeiting, the experts found several tokens impersonating major brands, government organizations and national fiat currencies. Resecurity has identified an increasing trend of cryptocurrency counterfeiting.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 26, 2024

As cryptocurrencies have grown in popularity, there has also been growing concern about cybercrime involvement in this sector Cryptocurrencies have revolutionized the financial world, offering new investment opportunities and decentralized transactions.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Malicious hackers are targeting people in the cryptocurrency space in attacks that start with a link added to the target’s calendar at Calendly , a popular application for scheduling appointments and meetings. The attackers impersonate established cryptocurrency investors and ask to schedule a video conference call.

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Bleeping Computer

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021

This week, threat actors hijacked Bitcoin.org, the authentic website of the Bitcoin project, and altered parts of the website to push a cryptocurrency giveaway scam that unfortunately some users fell for. Although the hack lasted for less than a day, hackers seem to have walked away with a little over $17,000. [.].

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Security Boulevard

APRIL 15, 2024

A former Amazon engineer who scammed more than $12 million from two decentralized cryptocurrencies exchanges in 2022 was sentenced to three years in prison in a case that the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) called the first conviction for hacking a “smart contract.”

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The State of Security

JULY 22, 2021

Police in Spain have arrested a British man in connection with what many consider the worst hack in Twitter's history. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 29, 2021

Our continued reliance on passwords for authentication has contributed to one toxic data spill or hack after another. 22, 2020, when cryptocurrency wallet company Ledger acknowledged that someone had released the names, mailing addresses and phone numbers for 272,000 customers. Urgency should be a giant red flag. Take a deep breath.

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The Hacker News

JANUARY 3, 2024

American cybersecurity firm and Google Cloud subsidiary Mandiant had its X (formerly Twitter) account compromised for more than six hours by an unknown attacker to propagate a cryptocurrency scam. But the hacked Mandiant account was initially renamed to "@ It's currently not clear how the account was breached.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2024

The X account of cybersecurity firm Mandiant was likely hacked through a brute-force password attack, the company revealed. Last week, threat actors hacked the X account of cybersecurity firm Mandiant and used it to impersonate the Phantom crypto platform and share a cryptocurrency scam. ” the company said on X.

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SecureWorld News

MARCH 15, 2023

Alright, how many of you saw a cryptocurrency ad on TV in 2022? Now the important question: how many of you got scammed in some sort of way by cryptocurrency or another type of investment? Oh, yeah, everyone did. How many of you acted on those ads and actually purchased crypto? Probably some of you. According to the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

Federal prosecutors in Los Angeles this week unsealed criminal charges against five men alleged to be members of a hacking group responsible for dozens of cyber intrusions at major U.S. The targeted SMS scams asked employees to click a link and log in at a website that mimicked their employer’s Okta authentication page.

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We Live Security

APRIL 15, 2024

Here’s how cybercriminals target cryptocurrencies and how you can keep your ownbitcoin or other crypto safe.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2022

This final post on the Conti conversations explores different schemes that Conti pursued to invest in and steal cryptocurrencies. This wealth allowed Conti to do things that regular investors couldn’t — such as moving the price of cryptocurrencies in one direction or the other. “Cryptocurrency article contest!

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Daniel James Junk (22) of Portland was sentenced to 72 months in federal prison for his role in a scheme that resulted in the theft of millions of dollars of cryptocurrency using a SIM swapping. Once hijacked a SIM, the attacker can steal money, cryptocurrencies and personal information, including contacts synced with online accounts.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 26, 2021

02, 2020, pitching him as a trustworthy cryptocurrency expert and advisor. One day after last summer’s mass-hack of Twitter , KrebsOnSecurity wrote that 22-year-old British citizen Joseph “PlugwalkJoe” O’Connor appeared to have been involved in the incident. BAD REACTION. “They can come arrest me.

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Graham Cluley

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The post asked for cryptocurrency donations "to support our mission in battling addiction." Matthew Perry's official Twitter account was hijacked by scammers this week who attempted to solicit donations from well-meaning fans of the much-loved late actor. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.

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Hot for Security

JUNE 17, 2021

In December last year, we reported how the email and mailing addresses of some 270,000 Ledger customers had been published on a hacking forum following a data breach. At the time we warned users of the hardware cryptocurrency wallet to watch out for phishing scams that might attempt to steal users’ credentials.

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SecureList

JULY 5, 2023

The higher the global popularity of cryptocurrencies and the more new ways of storing them, the wider the arsenal of tools used by malicious actors who are after digital money. This story covers two fundamentally different methods of email attacks on the two most popular ways of storing cryptocurrency: hot and cold wallets.

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Bleeping Computer

MARCH 16, 2021

A Florida teenager has pleaded guilty to fraud charges after coordinating the hack of high-profile Twitter accounts to run a cryptocurrency scam that collected roughly $120,000 worth of bitcoins. [.].

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Malwarebytes

JANUARY 10, 2024

We have seen several high-profile accounts that were taken over on X (formerly Twitter) only to be used for cryptocurrency related promotional activities, like expressing the approval of exchange-traded funds (ETFs). A spot Bitcoin ETF will buy the cryptocurrency directly, “on the spot”, at its current price, throughout the day.

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Krebs on Security

JUNE 27, 2023

Joseph James “PlugwalkJoe” O’Connor , a 24-year-old from the United Kingdom who earned his 15 minutes of fame by participating in the July 2020 hack of Twitter , has been sentenced to five years in a U.S. 02, 2020, pitching O’Connor as a cryptocurrency expert and advisor. I don’t care,” O’Connor told The Times.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The FBI warns of an increase of fraudulent schemes leveraging cryptocurrency ATMs and QR Codes to facilitate payment. The FBI Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) published an alert to warn the public of fraudulent schemes leveraging cryptocurrency ATMs and Quick Response (QR) codes to complete payment transactions.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 7, 2018

Police in Florida have arrested a 25-year-old man accused of being part of a multi-state cyber fraud ring that hijacked mobile phone numbers in online attacks that siphoned hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies from victims.

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Bleeping Computer

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In a perfect example of there being no honor among thieves, a threat actor named 'Water Labbu' is hacking into cryptocurrency scam sites to inject malicious JavaScript that steals funds from the scammer's victims. [.].

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Bleeping Computer

APRIL 24, 2023

KuCoin's Twitter account was hacked, allowing attackers to promote a fake giveaway scam that led to the theft of over $22.6K in cryptocurrency. [.]

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Identity IQ

MAY 9, 2022

What are NFT Scams? Most NFT scams happen when a bad actor steals a participant’s cryptocurrency wallet login or tricks a buyer into believing they have successfully purchased or sold a legitimate NFT. Here’s a Rundown of the Most Common NFT Scams and How to Help Avoid Them. IdentityIQ. Watch out for Chats on Discord.

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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. The history of scams and phishing. Also in the 1990s, the first online scams appeared. Phishing and scams: current types of fraud. They just need to sign up and pay a small fee. Distribution.

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SecureList

JULY 11, 2022

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. Example of a dating scam e-mail. Dating scams are the least common type of message-based fraud. 419 scam with transactions.

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