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Best of 2024: Massive Online Shopping Scam Racks Up 850,000 Victims

Security Boulevard

The post Best of 2024: Massive Online Shopping Scam Racks Up 850,000 Victims appeared first on Security Boulevard. Chinese crooks are running a global network of more than 75,000 fake online shops to steal credit card data and process fraudulent payments.

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Massive Online Shopping Scam Racks Up 850,000 Victims

Security Boulevard

The post Massive Online Shopping Scam Racks Up 850,000 Victims appeared first on Security Boulevard. Chinese crooks are running a global network of more than 75,000 fake online shops to steal credit card data and process fraudulent payments.

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Law enforcement Operation HAECHI IV led to the seizure of $300 Million

Security Affairs

The six-month operation (July-December 2023) targeted organizations involved in seven types of online scams: business email compromise (BEC), ecommerce fraud, investment fraud, voice phishing , money laundering associated with illegal online gambling, romance scams , and online sextortion schemes.

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Darwinium upgrades its payment fraud protection platform

CSO Magazine

The company claims that the update ensures customers remain in control of users’ data while also preventing Darwinian from becoming a target of cybercrime. Use cases for the Darwinium platform include account security, scam detection, account takeover, fraudulent new accounts, synthetic identities, and bot intelligence.

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Phishing trap: security awareness through a different lens

BH Consulting

Banks and insurance companies are telling customers to be wary of scam messages. Phishing and scam emails are – by some distance – the leading cause of ransomware infections, according to Statista. So with European Cybersecurity Month here, now’s a good time to familiarise ourselves again with a popular cybercrime tactic.

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Pay it safe: Group-IB aids Paxful in repelling a series of web-bot attacks

Security Affairs

Cryptocurrencies, in general, are the apple of cybercriminals’ eye: Group-IB has alerted cryptocurrency holders to various scams on numerous occasions: fake giveaways , non-existent cryptocurrency investment platforms , as well as personal data-exposing schemes , have found hundreds of thousands of people as their victims.

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Cybercriminals Implemented Artificial Intelligence (AI) for Invoice Fraud

Security Affairs

Resecurity has uncovered a cybercriminal faction known as “ GXC Team “, who specializes in crafting tools for online banking theft, ecommerce deception, and internet scams. These methods are commonly employed in wire fraud and well-known bogus invoice scams. billion on organizations.