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HuiOne Guarantee: The $11 Billion Cybercrime Hub of Southeast Asia
Cryptocurrency analysts have shed light on an online marketplace called HuiOne Guarantee that's widely used by cybercriminals in Southeast Asia, particularly those linked to pig butchering scams. "Merchants on the platform offer technology, data, and money laundering services, and have engaged in...
The $11 Billion Marketplace Enabling the Crypto Scam Economy
Deepfake scam services. Victim data. Electrified shackles for human trafficking. Crypto tracing firm Elliptic found all were available for sale on an online marketplace linked to Cambodia’s ruling family...
Australian Man Charged for Fake Wi-Fi Scam on Domestic Flights
An Australian man has been charged with running a fake Wi-Fi access point during a domestic flight with an aim to steal user credentials and data. The unnamed 42-year-old "allegedly established fake free Wi-Fi access points, which mimicked legitimate networks, to capture personal data from...
Australian Man Arrested for “Evil Twin” Wi-Fi Scam Targeting Travelers
An Australian man faces charges for setting up fake Wi-Fi networks "evil twins" to steal data from unsuspecting…...
AI Transcript, Fake School Website: Student’s US Scholarship Scam Exposed on Reddit
You reap what you sow!...
Over 110,000 Websites Affected by Hijacked Polyfill Supply Chain Attack
Google has taken steps to block ads for e-commerce sites that use the Polyfill.io service after a Chinese company acquired the domain and modified the JavaScript library "polyfill.js" to redirect users to malicious and scam sites. "Protecting our users is our top priority. We detected a security...
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Warning: Markopolo's Scam Targeting Crypto Users via Fake Meeting Software
A threat actor who goes by alias markopolo has been identified as behind a large-scale cross-platform scam that targets digital currency users on social media with information stealer malware and carries out cryptocurrency theft. The attack chains involve the use of a purported virtual meeting...
How to Spot a Business Email Compromise Scam
In this common email scam, a criminal pretending to be your boss or coworker emails you asking for a favor involving money. Here’s what do to when a bad actor lands in your inbox...
Bypassing 2FA with phishing and OTP bots
Introduction Two-factor authentication 2FA is a security feature we have come to expect as standard by 2024. Most of todays websites offer some form of it, and some of them wont even let you use their service until you enable 2FA. Individual countries have adopted laws that require certain types ...
A US Company Enabled a North Korean Scam That Raised Money for WMDs
Wyoming’s secretary of state has proposed ways of “preventing fraud and abuse of corporate filings by commercial registered agents” in the aftermath of the scheme’s exposure...
WhatsApp cryptocurrency scam goes for the cash prize
This weekend a scammer tried his luck by reaching out to me on WhatsApp. It’s not that I don’t appreciate it, but trust me, it’s bad for your business. I received one message from a number hailing from the Togolese Republic. WhatsApp message from an unknow sender “Jay, your financial account has...
Attackers are impersonating a road toll payment processor across the U.S. in phishing attacks
My wife no stranger to weird types of scams recently received a fake text message from someone claiming to be New Jerseys E-ZPass program saying that she had an outstanding balance from highway tolls that she owed, prompting her to visit a site so she could pay and avoid additional fines. There w...
Message board scams
Marketplace fraud is nothing new. Cybercriminals swindle money out of buyers and sellers alike. Lately, weve seen a proliferation of cybergangs operating under the Fraud-as-a-Service model and specializing in tricking users of online marketplaces, in particular, message boards. Criminals are...
Chinese Nationals Arrested for Laundering $73 Million in Pig Butchering Crypto Scam
The U.S. Department of Justice DoJ has charged two arrested Chinese nationals for allegedly orchestrating a pig butchering scam that laundered at least $73 million from victims through shell companies. The individuals, Daren Li, 41, and Yicheng Zhang, 38, were arrested in Atlanta and Los Angeles ...
Cybercriminals Exploiting Microsoft's Quick Assist Feature in Ransomware Attacks
The Microsoft Threat Intelligence team said it has observed a threat actor it tracks under the name Storm-1811 abusing the client management tool Quick Assist to target users in social engineering attacks. "Storm-1811 is a financially motivated cybercriminal group known to deploy Black Basta...
Desperate Taylor Swift fans defrauded by ticket scams
Ticket scams are very common and apparently hard to stop. When there are not nearly enough tickets for some concerts to accommodate all the fans that desperately want to be there, it makes for ideal hunting grounds for scammers. With a ticket scam, you pay for a ticket and you either don’t receiv...
Hackers Exploiting LiteSpeed Cache Bug to Gain Full Control of WordPress Sites
A high-severity flaw impacting the LiteSpeed Cache plugin for WordPress is being actively exploited by threat actors to create rogue admin accounts on susceptible websites. The findings come from WPScan, which said that the vulnerability CVE-2023-40000, CVSS score: 8.3 has been leveraged to set u...
Financial cyberthreats in 2023
Money is what always attracts cybercriminals. A significant share of scam, phishing and malware attacks is about money. With trillions of dollars of digital payments made every year, it is no wonder that attackers target electronic wallets, online shopping accounts and other financial assets,...
