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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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FBI: Spike in Hacked Police Emails, Fake Subpoenas

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based technology companies. Donahue said 60 technology companies are now routing all law enforcement data requests through Kodex, including an increasing number of financial institutions and cryptocurrency platforms. “Unfortunately, a lot of this is phishing or malware campaigns,” Donahue said.

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Fake Lawsuit Threat Exposes Privnote Phishing Sites

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The disclosure revealed a profitable network of phishing sites that behave and look like the real Privnote, except that any messages containing cryptocurrency addresses will be automatically altered to include a different payment address controlled by the scammers. A screenshot of the phishing domain privatemessage dot net.

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Karma Catches Up to Global Phishing Service 16Shop

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You’ve probably never heard of “ 16Shop ,” but there’s a good chance someone using it has tried to phish you. A 16Shop phishing page spoofing Apple and targeting Japanese users. Image: Akamai.com. The INTERPOL statement says the platform sold hacking tools to compromise more than 70,000 users in 43 countries.

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How Phishers Are Slinking Their Links Into LinkedIn

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This search via Urlscan reveals dozens of recent phishing attacks that have leveraged the Slinks feature. A recent phishing site that abused LinkedIn’s marketing redirect. A recent phishing site that abused LinkedIn’s marketing redirect. Urlscan also found this phishing scam from Jan. Image: Urlscan.io.

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How 1-Time Passcodes Became a Corporate Liability

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Phishers are enjoying remarkable success using text messages to steal remote access credentials and one-time passcodes from employees at some of the world’s largest technology companies and customer support firms. Those who submitted credentials were then prompted to provide the one-time password needed for multi-factor authentication.

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The Life Cycle of a Breached Database

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. “You hand that over to a person who used to mine Ethereum or Bitcoin, and if they have a large enough dictionary [of pre-computed hashes] then you can essentially break 60-70 percent of the hashed passwords in a day or two,” said Fabian Wosar , chief technology officer at security firm Emsisoft. TARGETED PHISHING.

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