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150k accounts nuked, 21 suspects arrested Not every scam starts with malware or a compromised account. Sometimes all it takes is a friend request or a link shared via chat.…
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150k accounts nuked, 21 suspects arrested Not every scam starts with malware or a compromised account. Sometimes all it takes is a friend request or a link shared via chat.…
Crooks used simple phone scam to compromise vendor account, spilling personal and financial data belonging to more than 15,000 people A voice-phishing scam targeting one of Ericsson's service providers has exposed the personal data of more than 15,000 individuals after attackers sweet-talked an employee into handing over access.…
Crypto mines, BEC scams, fake passports, and a $300M fraud empire allegedly brought down during Serengeti 2.0 Interpol's latest clampdown on cybercrime resulted in 1,209 arrests across the African continent, from ransomware crooks to business email compromise (BEC) scammers, the agency says.…
FIN6 moves from point-of-sale compromise to phishing recruiters In a scam that flips the script on fake IT worker schemes, cybercriminals posing as job seekers on LinkedIn and Indeed are targeting recruiters - a group hated only slightly less than digital crooks - with malware hosted on phony resume portfolio sites.…
Fraudsters targeted local government, colleges, and construction firms in Texas and North Carolina Two British-Nigerian men were sentenced for serious business email compromise schemes in the US this week, netting them millions of dollars from local government entities, construction companies, and colleges.…
Timor-Leste is a known cybercrime hotspot Two days is all it took for Interpol to recover more than $40 million worth of stolen funds in a recent business email compromise (BEC) heist, the international cop shop said this week.…
Crook and his alleged co-conspirators said to have used Discord to coordinate A Nigerian national has been convicted of participating in a business email compromise (BEC) scam worth $1.5 million after a jury found him guilty on all counts.…
Tech support scammer among those targeted by recent crackdowns Uncle Sam announced its commenced over 4,000 legal actions in three months — mostly harshly worded letters — to rein in "money mules" involved in romance scams, business email compromise, and other fraudulent schemes.…
Protection from business email compromise Webinar In the distant past, a master forger with a quill could fake a signature on the end of a letter but at least then you had time to consider the potential for fraud before any damage could be done. In the digital age of email, it's increasingly hard to spot a scam's threat to your security and react in time.…
Also, TLC gets schooled by Karakurt, and Cloudflare is offering free zero trust stuff to some small companies In brief Business email compromise (BEC) continues to be a multibillion-dollar threat, but it's evolving, with the FBI and other federal agencies warning that cybercriminals have started using spoofed emails to steal shipments of physical goods – in this case, food. …
18 people and businesses charged, one giant web of connections America's financial watchdog has accused 18 individuals and shell companies of using compromised brokerage accounts to manipulate stock prices to rake in $1.3 million in illicit profits.…
FBI and co blow lid off latest PHP tampering scam The FBI and its friends have warned businesses of crooks scraping people's credit-card details from tampered payment pages on compromised websites.…
Reverse-engineered code redirects visitors to dodgy corners of the internet A years-long campaign by miscreants to insert malicious JavaScript into vulnerable WordPress sites, so that visitors are redirected to scam websites, has been documented by reverse-engineers.…