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A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew

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Almost invariably, the phishing groups will splinter apart over the drama caused by one of these snaking events, and individual members eventually will then re-form a new phishing group.

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Scam ‘Funeral Streaming’ Groups Thrive on Facebook

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Recently, these scammers have branched out into offering fake streaming services for nearly any kind of event advertised on Facebook. Apkdownloadweb has a Facebook page , which shows a number of “live video” teasers for sports events that have already happened, and says its domain is apkdownloadweb[.]com. net for DNS.

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Alleged Boss of ‘Scattered Spider’ Hacking Group Arrested

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KrebsOnSecurity sought comment from Mr. Buchanan, and will update this story in the event he responds. Those accounts state that the intruders assaulted Tylerb’s mother in the home invasion, and that they threatened to burn him with a blowtorch if he didn’t give up the keys to his cryptocurrency wallets.

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Discord Admins Hacked by Malicious Bookmarks

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The attacker then loads the stolen token into their own browser session and (usually late at night after the admins are asleep) posts an announcement in the targeted Discord about an exclusive “airdrop,” “NFT mint event” or some other potential money making opportunity for the Discord members.

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New Ransom Payment Schemes Target Executives, Telemedicine

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While the above tips are important and useful, one critical area of ransomware preparedness overlooked by too many organizations is the need to develop — and then periodically rehearse — a plan for how everyone in the organization should respond in the event of a ransomware or data ransom incident.

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Disneyland Malware Team: It’s a Puny World After All

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In the event that it somehow takes a long time to get the victim (bot) connected to the Disneyland Team control panel, or if it is necessary to delay a transaction, users can push a button that prompts the following message to appear on the victim’s screen: “Your case ID number is 875472.

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Calendar Meeting Links Used to Spread Mac Malware

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SlowMist says the North Korean phishing scams used the “Add Custom Link” feature of the Calendly meeting scheduling system on event pages to insert malicious links and initiate phishing attacks. Once the project team complies, their computer comes under the control of the hackers, leading to the theft of funds.”

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