SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

In a significant victory against cybercrime, U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) , the seized domains were actively facilitating the sale of phishing kits, scam pages, and other fraud tools, which were then used by transnational organized crime groups to conduct business email compromise (BEC) schemes. According to the U.S.

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Cybercrime has been steadily on the rise for the past years. Localization is a combination of measures aimed at adapting your business, product, and messaging to the requirements of the local market and tastes of the local customers. Nearly 3 billion records were stolen in the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.,

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Malwarebytes

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Political ads could be hiding online scams, many people feel, and the election, they say, will likely fall victim to some type of “cyber interference.” 52% are “very concerned” or “concerned” about “falling prey to a scam when interacting with political messages.”

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SecureWorld News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Last year saw a 110% rise in cybercrime in the lead up to Valentine's Day. And 2025 will be no different, as increasingly sophisticated online hackers seek to take advantage of Valentine's themed email traffic, social media advertisements, or marketing campaigns, and exploit heightened emotions and a desire to connect.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 21, 2022

The term “pig butchering” refers to a time-tested, heavily scripted, and human-intensive process of using fake profiles on dating apps and social media to lure people into investing in elaborate scams. In a more visceral sense, pig butchering means fattening up a prey before the slaughter. “The scale of this is so massive.

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Webroot

MAY 4, 2021

Typically, when cryptocurrency values change, one would expect to see changes in crypto-related cybercrime. It’s very possible for a Bitcoin ransom to lose value over time due to market flux, making it less profitable than it might otherwise appear. So, what’s the real story?

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 30, 2020

In addition, many crooks are finding the outbreak has helped them better market their cybercriminal wares and services. He said while the Coronavirus has forced reshipping operators to make painful shifts in several parts of their business, the overall market for available mules has never looked brighter.

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Krebs on Security

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

Happily, the broad deployment of more secure chip-based payment cards in the United States has weakened the carding market. But a flurry of innovation from cybercrime groups in China is breathing new life into the carding industry, by turning phished card data into mobile wallets that can be used online and at main street stores. .”

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Krebs on Security

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

One of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing its internal operations, finances and organizational structure. Among the most common ways that thieves extract cash from stolen credit card accounts is through purchasing pricey consumer goods online and reselling them on the black market.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

The Apollon market, one of the largest marketplaces, is likely exit scamming after the administrators have locked vendors’ accounts. The Apollon market , one of the darknet’s largest marketplaces, is likely exit scamming, vendors and customers reported suspicious behavior of its administrators.

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Krebs on Security

MAY 18, 2020

is cybercrime forum. RedBear’s service is marketed not only to malware creators, but to people who rent or buy malicious software and services from other cybercriminals. The cybercrime actor “upO” on Exploit[.]in RedBear’s profile on the Russian-language xss[.]is

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2024

Offers that promise easy earnings can also bring with them a host of scams that deceive those who are genuinely seeking income opportunities. t is into this scenario that illicit practices such as moneny mules and reshipping scams can fit. In practice, packages arrived with prepaid shipping labels with stolen credit cards.

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Krebs on Security

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

“Using digital crurency in one victim Poloniex account, they placed an order to purchase approximately 8,000 GAS, thereby immediately increasing the market price of GAS from approximately $18 to $2,400,” the indictment explains. businesses and individuals through Business Email Compromise fraud and romance scams.

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Security Affairs

JUNE 17, 2024

Federal authorities charged two individuals with operating the dark web marketplace Empire Market that facilitated over $430 million in illegal transactions. currency on AlphaBay before starting Empire Market. “They began operating Empire Market on Feb. “They began operating Empire Market on Feb.

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Malwarebytes

MARCH 20, 2025

This blog post was co-authored with Elie Berreby, Senior SEO Strategist Criminals are highly interested in online marketing and advertising tools that they can leverage as part of their ongoing malware campaigns.

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SecureList

APRIL 5, 2023

The Telegram black market: what’s on offer After reviewing phishers’ Telegram channels that we detected, we broke down the services they promoted into paid and free. Once a URL is entered, the bot will generate several scam links targeting users of the service. Another reason is recruiting an unpaid workforce.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 16, 2022

Earlier this month, the administrator of the cybercrime forum Breached received a cease-and-desist letter from a cybersecurity firm. ” asked Ohad Zaidenberg , founder of CTI League , a volunteer emergency response community that emerged in 2020 to help fight COVID-19 related scams. “Who does it?

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SecureList

MAY 27, 2024

Ways to deceive message board users There are two main types of message board scams. This type of fraud is known as scam 1.0 or a buyer scam , because the attacker poses as the seller to deceive the buyer. This is known as scam 2.0 or a seller scam , because the attacker deceives the seller posing as the buyer.

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SecureList

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Having been in the field for so long, we have witnessed some major changes in the cybercrime world’s modus operandi. This report shares our insights into the Russian-speaking cybercrime world and the changes in how it operates that have happened in the past five years. Vulnerabilities market got a remake.

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 9, 2021

Also, this greenhorn criminal clearly had bought into BriansClub’s advertising, which uses my name and likeness in a series of ads that run on all the top cybercrime forums. com was hosted at a company in Moscow with just a handful of other domains phishing popular cybercrime stores, including Jstashbazar[.]com, com, vclub[.]cards,

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SC Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

No wonder scam artists are taking notice and jumping on the bandwagon. Shashi Prakash, chief technology officer and chief scientist at Bolster, told SC Media that NFTs are especially ripe for scamming right now because of the very fact that some people are chasing this fad without really understanding how the process works.

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Security Affairs

NOVEMBER 30, 2024

“They employ questionable tactics, such as deceptive marketing that highlights time-limited offers and countdowns, creating a false sense of urgency to pressure users into making hasty decisions. Similar scams were reported globally. ” reads the report published McAfee. ” concludes the report.

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Malwarebytes

JUNE 3, 2021

Since the initial lockdown, we have seen the rise of certain types of cybercrime, including scams and fraud campaigns that either bank on the global COVID-19 pandemic or take advantage of potential victims that adhere to work-from-home measures. Future cybercrimes in the UK and beyond. Organized crime: Online fraud.

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Malwarebytes

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

AI chat tools like ChatGPT, Google Gemini, and Claudefrom OpenAI competitor Anthropiccan brainstorm ideas for marketing materials, write book reports, compose poems, and even review human-written text for legibility. They can even mimic the styles of famous artists, like Van Gogh, Rembrandt, and Picasso. That could change in 2025.

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Penetration Testing

MARCH 7, 2024

The digitalization of financial markets has brought increased investor access but also heightened vulnerability to cybercrime.

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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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Bleeping Computer

OCTOBER 2, 2022

Ever since Russian president Vladimir Putin ordered partial mobilization after facing setbacks on the Ukrainian front, men in Russia and the state's conscript officers are playing a 'cat and mouse' game involving technology and cybercrime services. [.].

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Security Boulevard

DECEMBER 21, 2023

International authorities took two big swipes at cybercriminals this week, with Interpol and others rounding up almost 3,500 suspects in a 34-country operation to crack down on cyber-scams one day while German police the next day said they shut down a dark web marketplace called Kingdom Market. Combined with the move by the U.S.

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Krebs on Security

JULY 18, 2022

But new research shows the proxy service has a long history of purchasing installations via shady “pay-per-install” affiliate marketing schemes, some of which 911 operated on its own. 911 says its network is made up entirely of users who voluntarily install its “free VPN” software. in the British Virgin Islands.

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Krebs on Security

MARCH 7, 2022

” Stern apparently believed in his crypto dreams so much that he sponsored a $100,000 article writing contest on the Russian language cybercrime forum Exploit, asking interested applicants to put forth various ideas for crypto platforms. The now-defunct website for the cryptocurrency scam SQUID. As Gizmodo first reported on Nov.

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Security Affairs

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

by using their brands and market reputation to defraud consumers. billion to scams. billion to scams. A FINRA survey points to health, marital and trust problems resulting from financial scams. A FINRA survey points to health, marital and trust problems resulting from financial scams. and the U.K billion in the U.S

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Krebs on Security

DECEMBER 29, 2022

Here’s a look at some of the more notable cybercrime stories from the past year, as covered by KrebsOnSecurity and elsewhere. 24, Russia invades Ukraine, and fault lines quickly begin to appear in the cybercrime underground. It emerges that email marketing giant Mailchimp got hacked.

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SecureWorld News

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

But have no fear, we have an on-demand webcast available now on "How to Stay Resilient Against Holiday Scams this Season.". Secret Service; Cathy Click, Phishing Defense and Education, FedEx; and Fabiola Fernandez, Product Marketing Manager, Security Awareness Training, Proofpoint. I know I am almost every other day.".

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Krebs on Security

AUGUST 2, 2022

The underground cybercrime forums are now awash in pleas from people who are desperately seeking a new supplier of abundant, cheap, and reliably clean proxies to restart their businesses. Last week, a seven-year-old proxy service called 911[.]re “Everybody is looking for an alternative, bro,” wrote a BlackHatForums user on Aug.

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SecureWorld News

JANUARY 6, 2025

So armed with a Bachelor of Arts degree, I started off working in sales and marketing rather than computer programming or operations which might have been a better fit for where I ended up years later. This year, cybercrime is expected to cost $10.3 Today, Cybercrime Inc. Cybercrime and cyberwar are the new normal.

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Security Affairs

DECEMBER 11, 2019

A penny stock is a security issued by a small company, generally for less than $5 per share, let’s see how crooks attempt to exploit them for scam s. Although it’s not always the case, opportunities to invest in penny stocks are frequently scams. They’re also sometimes called micro-cap or nano-cap stocks. Cleary, Jr.,

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Krebs on Security

APRIL 15, 2020

Whether it’s helping hospitals avoid becoming the next ransomware victim or kneecapping new COVID-19-themed scam websites, these nascent partnerships may well end up saving lives. At least three major industry groups are working to counter the latest cyber threats and scams.

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