Security Affairs

MARCH 29, 2025

million in USDT stolen through ‘romance baiting’ scams, where victims are tricked into fake investments promising high returns. in USDT (Tether) linked to a ‘romance baiting’ scam. The scam involves emotional manipulation, leaving victims financially devastated and reluctant to report the fraud.

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

. “We may warn you about messages that ask you to take the conversation to another platform because that can be a sign of a scam,” the company said in a blog post. ” It remains unclear who or what is behind the recent proliferation of fake executive profiles on LinkedIn, but likely they are from a combination of scams.

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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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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.

Cryptocurrency 132

Cryptocurrency Scams Government Banking 132

Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2022

The candid messages revealed how Conti evaded law enforcement and intelligence agencies , what it was like on a typical day at the Conti office , and how Conti secured the digital weaponry used in their attacks. This final post on the Conti conversations explores different schemes that Conti pursued to invest in and steal cryptocurrencies.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 20, 2022

In late September 2022, KrebsOnSecurity warned about the proliferation of fake LinkedIn profiles for Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at some of the world’s largest corporations. A follow-up story on Oct. Up until Sept. 3, there were 7,846 profiles claiming current executive roles at Binance.

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 14, 2024

The Bohemia marketplace ceased operations in late 2023 due to service disruptions, while its members suspected an exit scams of a rogue developer. The authorities also seized two vehicles and €8 million worth of cryptocurrency. It is the largest and longest running international dark web market of all time worldwide.”

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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.

Cryptocurrency 107

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 17, 2024

CISA adds Palo Alto Networks Expedition bugs to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog Hackers target critical flaw CVE-2024-10914 in EOL D-Link NAS Devices China-linked threat actors compromised multiple telecos and spied on a limited number of U.S.

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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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Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2022

Threat actors compromised the Twitter and YouTube accounts of the British Army to promote online crypto scams. The Twitter and YouTube accounts of the British Army were used to promote NFT and other crypto scams. The Army takes information security extremely seriously and is resolving the issue. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Security Affairs

APRIL 27, 2023

CyberNews analyzed a classic cryptocurrency romance scam, also known as CryptoRom, explaining how scammers hid the money CryptoRom scammers hid the money with several layers of obfuscation, but the Cybernews research team discovered that the stolen funds ended up in Binance accounts. Here’s how we did it.

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Krebs on Security

OCTOBER 5, 2022

Last week, KrebsOnSecurity examined a flood of inauthentic LinkedIn profiles all claiming Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at various Fortune 500 companies, including Biogen , Chevron , ExxonMobil , and Hewlett Packard. of spam and scams. “Clearly they are not monitored,” Taylor assessed.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

Someone has recently created a large number of fake LinkedIn profiles for Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at some of the world’s largest corporations. If you were confused at this point, you might ask Google who it thinks is the current Chief Information Security Officer of Chevron. of spam and scam.”

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 2, 2022

The cyberattacks against the cryptocurrency industry are a profitable business for threat actors, according to the experts, $12.1 billion worth of cryptocurrencies have been stolen in the last decade. “Cryptocurrency crime stands in direct proportion to the size of the cryptocurrency market. Threat actors stole $3.18

Cryptocurrency 115

Cryptocurrency Scams Marketing Hacking 115

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

Once payments are collected from the victims, they make previously created resources vanish and set up the next new campaign – this is why investigators named the group “Digital Smoke” According to the latest report by FTC released last week called “The Top Scams of 2022” people reported losing $8.8

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Security Affairs

JUNE 30, 2020

Group-IB discovered thousands of personal records of users from multiple countries exposed in a targeted multi-stage bitcoin scam. The information has been provided to relevant authorities in the affected countries. The new scheme is similar to the “Bitcoin Evolution” scam, that Group-IB reported on in Feb. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Scams Media Cryptocurrency Data breaches 101

Security Boulevard

JANUARY 16, 2022

Norton 360, a popular antivirus product, has installed a cryptocurrency mining program on its customers’ computers, some cities in Texas have been hit with a phishing scam designed to get users to pay through fraudulent QR code stickers on public parking meters, and how Facebook is still collecting data about you even if you deactivate […].

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Accountability Antivirus Cryptocurrency Scams 122

Security Affairs

JULY 5, 2019

” The FBI provided the following answers to those interested in have more info on the sextortion scams: What is sextortion? This could be the possibility of a modeling contract; online game credits or codes; or money, cryptocurrency, and gift cards. Copyright (C) 2014-2015 Media.net Advertising FZ-LLC All Rights Reserved -->.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 11, 2024

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 threat actors exploited the account to promote an airdrop scam. The scam was designed to drain funds from the victims’ wallets.

Accountability 133

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Security Affairs

MARCH 18, 2021

According to the 2020 Internet Crime Report , the top three crimes reported by victims in 2020 were phishing scams, non-payment/non-delivery scams, and extortion. The novelty this year is represented by scams exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic. Notably, 2020 saw the emergence of scams exploiting the COVID-19 pandemic. .

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 8, 2023

North Korea-linked APT group Lazarus has laundered $900 million worth of cryptocurrency, Elliptic researchers reported. North Korea-linked Lazarus Group laundered $900 Million in cryptocurrency between July 2022 and July 2023. ” reads the report published by Elliptic.

Cryptocurrency 138

Cryptocurrency Cybercrime Scams Hacking 138

Security Affairs

APRIL 7, 2025

“In the Florida case, Urban was accused of stealing at least $800,000 in cryptocurrency from five different victims between August 2022 and March 2023.” . “In the California case, he pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud.” ” reported News4Jax. In January 2024, U.S.

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 30, 2022

According to the FTC, people with age between 18 to 39, were most exposed to these scams in 2021. Most of the reported scams, crooks promoted bogus investment opportunities, and in many cases, they got in direct contact with victims as supposed friends to encourage them to invest. Read about romance scams.

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Media Scams Cryptocurrency Marketing 98

Security Affairs

JULY 13, 2021

Mindaugas (who wished his last name not to be disclosed publicly), an executive at a UK-based company, unknowingly fell for a scam when he tried to claim a £60 bonus supposedly offered by Coinbase, a mistake that resulted in £15,000 lost to fraudsters in minutes. Falling for the scam. The scammers didn’t waste any time.

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Scams Cryptocurrency Accountability Authentication 101

Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2024

The dark web marketplace shut down in 2020, leaving users without time to withdraw funds from their escrow accounts, at the time some users blamed a prolonged denial-of-service (DDoS) attack, while others suspected an exit scam. Pavey and Hamilton face charges for five counts: Conspiracy to sell counterfeit U.S. currency on AlphaBay.

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Marketing Cryptocurrency DDOS Scams 127

Security Affairs

MAY 18, 2022

Microsoft researchers warn of the rising threat of cryware targeting non-custodial cryptocurrency wallets, also known as hot wallets. Microsoft warns of the rise of cryware, malicious software used to steal info an dfunds from non-custodial cryptocurrency wallets, also known as hot wallets. Ransomware. Password and info stealers.

Cryptocurrency 107

Cryptocurrency Social Engineering Malware Cybercrime 107

Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 23, 2025

Every week the best security articles from Security Affairs are free in your email box. from Bybit, it is the largest cryptocurrency heist ever Apple removes iCloud encryption in UK following backdoor demand B1acks Stash released 1 Million credit cards U.S. Lazarus APT stole $1.5B

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 23, 2024

The cybercriminal facilitated money laundering by accepting illicit cryptocurrency from criminal groups, including North Korea-linked APT Lazarus , vendors of child sexual abuse material, and terrorist financiers. “There were also transfers between cryptocurrency wallets. But not only physical money transactions were made.”

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Cryptocurrency Social Engineering Hacking Engineering 115

Security Affairs

JANUARY 20, 2021

The Russian cryptocurrency exchange Livecoin has announced it is terminating its operation following the December cyberattack. The Russian cryptocurrency exchange was hacked on Christmas Eve, it published a message on its website warning customers to stop using its services. Pierluigi Paganini. SecurityAffairs – hacking, Livecoin).

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Cryptocurrency Scams Hacking Accountability 128

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Businesses employ MongoDB to organize and store large swaths of document-oriented information, and in GokuMarket’s case, the details of over a million customers and admin users. GokuMarket, a cryptocurrency exchange, was recently acquired by Canada-based crypto exchange ByteX.

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Passwords Cryptocurrency Scams Mobile 129

Security Affairs

JANUARY 7, 2024

Experts spotted a new macOS Backdoor named SpectralBlur linked to North Korea Merck settles with insurers regarding a $1.4

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Artificial Intelligence Data breaches Scams Insurance 121

Security Affairs

APRIL 19, 2020

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Security Affairs

JANUARY 23, 2022

In November, 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. ? This payment option makes it quite impossible to recover the money stolen with fraudulent schemes. Pierluigi Paganini.

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Cryptocurrency Social Engineering Malware Scams 109

Security Affairs

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Shopin founder charged by SEC for running $42 million scam cryptocurrency ICO. The US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has charged the founder of Shopin , Eran Eyal, for allegedly running $42 million scam ICO. ” reads the press release published by SEC. ” continues the SEC’s compliant.

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Security Affairs

AUGUST 30, 2020

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Security Affairs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Once hijacked the channel, attackers either sell it to the highest bidder or employ it in cryptocurrency scam scheme. The hackers used fake collaboration opportunities (i.e. a demo for anti-virus software, VPN, music players, photo editing or online games) to hijack the channel of YouTube creators.

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