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Chinese Innovations Spawn Wave of Toll Phishing Via SMS

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Researchers say the surge in SMS spam coincides with new features added to a popular commercial phishing kit sold in China that makes it simple to set up convincing lures spoofing toll road operators in multiple U.S. Reports of similar SMS phishing attacks against customers of other U.S. This is by no means a comprehensive list.

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China-based SMS Phishing Triad Pivots to Banks

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China-based purveyors of SMS phishing kits are enjoying remarkable success converting phished payment card data into mobile wallets from Apple and Google. On the left is the (test) data entered at the phishing site. On the left is the (test) data entered at the phishing site. Image: Ford Merrill. Image: SilentPush.

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FBI, Dutch Police Disrupt ‘Manipulaters’ Phishing Gang

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Department of Justice refers to the cybercrime group as Saim Raza , after a pseudonym The Manipulaters communally used to promote their spam, malware and phishing services on social media. ” Manipulaters advertisement for Office 365 Private Page with Antibot phishing kit sold via Heartsender. Image: DomainTools. ” U.S.

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Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like.shop,top and.xyz

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Phishing attacks increased nearly 40 percent in the year ending August 2024, with much of that growth concentrated at a small number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) — such as.shop ,top ,xyz — that attract scammers with rock-bottom prices and no meaningful registration requirements, new research finds.

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5 Key Findings From the 2023 FBI Internet Crime Report

The true figure is likely to be even higher, though, as many identity theft and phishing attacks go unreported. The losses companies suffered in 2023 ransomware attacks increased by 74% compared to those of the previous year, according to new data from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).

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When Getting Phished Puts You in Mortal Danger

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Many successful phishing attacks result in a financial loss or malware infection. But falling for some phishing scams, like those currently targeting Russians searching online for organizations that are fighting the Kremlin war machine, can cost you your freedom or your life. The text has been machine-translated from Russian.

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Arrests in Tap-to-Pay Scheme Powered by Phishing

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Details released by authorities so far indicate the mobile wallets being used by the scammers were created through online phishing scams, and that the accused were relying on a custom Android app to relay tap-to-pay transactions from mobile devices located in China. It all starts with phishing. Authorities in at least two U.S.

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