A Serial Tech Investment Scammer Takes Up Coding?

John Clifton Davies, a 60-year-old con man from the United Kingdom who fled the country in 2015 before being sentenced to 12 years in prison for fraud, has enjoyed a successful life abroad swindling technology startups by pretending to be a billionaire investor. Davies newest invention appears to...

Zimbra email platform vulnerability exploited to steal European govt emails

By Deeba Ahmed Researchers have noted that attackers are targeting a medium-severity Zimbra vulnerability that the company patched in version 9.0.0 Patch 24, one year ago. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Zimbra email platform vulnerability exploited to steal European govt...

Cyber Police of Ukraine Busted Phishing Gang Responsible for $4.33 Million Scam

The Cyber Police of Ukraine, in collaboration with law enforcement officials from Czechia, has arrested several members of a cybercriminal gang that set up phishing sites to target European users. Two of the apprehended affiliates are believed to be organizers, with 10 others detained in other...

Steer clear of this EE phish that wants your card details

Watch out for this piece of spam lurking in mail boxes and claiming to be from the EE mobile network. The mail, titled "We were unable to renew your monthly plan" with a likely random reference number alongside it, reads as follows: Due to a problem with your card, we were unable to charge your...

IRS tax forms W-9 email scam drops Emotet malware

By Waqas Researchers have warned users to be on alert, as the IRS never sends emails to confirm taxpayers' personal information. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: IRS tax forms W-9 email scam drops Emotet malware...

Nextcloud: Twitter Account hijack @nextcloudfrance

The Twitter account of Nextcloud France was vulnerable to Broken Link Hijacking BLH attack, which occurs when attackers exploit expired external links on credible websites or web applications. The attackers took over the expired link and claimed the username for testing purposes, redirecting user...

Fake ChatGPT Extension Hijacks Facebook Accounts

By Deeba Ahmed At the time of reporting this scam to Google, the fake ChatGPT extension had over 7,000 installations. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Fake ChatGPT Extension Hijacks Facebook Accounts...

Beware: Fake IRS tax email delivers Emotet malware

Tax season is upon us and, as with every year, we're seeing tax scammers rearing their heads. Below, we have an example of a tax scam currently in circulation along with some suggestions for avoiding these kinds of attacks. An IRS W-9 tax form scam A Form W-9 is a form you fill in to confirm...

Chatbots, Celebrities, and Victim Retargeting: Why Crypto Giveaway Scams Are Still So Successful

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Investment fraud overtakes business email compromise as most reported fraud

The Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has published its 2022 Internet Crime Report. One of the most notable points is that investment fraud has now overtaken business email compromise BEC as the most reported and most damaging type of fraud. The numbers are based on the complaints reported to t...

"Brad Pitt," a still body, ketchup, and a knife, or the best trick ever played on a romance scammer, with Becky Holmes: Lock and Code S04E06

Becky Holmes knows how to throw a romance scammer off script--simply bring up cannibalism. In January, Holmes shared on Twitter that an account with the name "Thomas Smith" had started up a random chat with her that sounded an awful lot like the beginning stages of a romance scam. But rather than...

Transparent Tribe Hackers Distribute CapraRAT via Trojanized Messaging Apps

A suspected Pakistan-aligned advanced persistent threat APT group known as Transparent Tribe has been linked to an ongoing cyber espionage campaign targeting Indian and Pakistani Android users with a backdoor called CapraRAT. "Transparent Tribe distributed the Android CapraRAT backdoor via...

Alert: Scammers Pose as ChatGPT in New Phishing Scam

By Waqas This phishing scam exploits the popularity of the AI-based ChatGPT chatbot to steal funds and harvest the personal and financial details of users. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Alert: Scammers Pose as ChatGPT in New Phishing Scam...

APT-C-36 Strikes Again: Blind Eagle Hackers Target Key Industries in Colombia

The threat actor known as Blind Eagle has been linked to a new campaign targeting various key industries in Colombia. The activity, which was detected by the BlackBerry Research and Intelligence Team on February 20, 2023, is also said to encompass Ecuador, Chile, and Spain, suggesting a slow...

Fake Amazon Prime email abuses LinkedIn's URL shortener

Over the last few days, scammers have been sending out phishing mails that disguise bogus URLs with something called Slinks--shortened Linkedin URLs. The shortened URLs redirect users to a different URL when they are clicked. If youve ever seen a Tiny URL, or a Bit.ly link, youll already be...

K33440533: BIG-IP ASM Bot Defense open redirection vulnerability CVE-2021-22984

Security Advisory Description When receiving a unauthenticated client request with a maliciously crafted URI, a BIG-IP Advanced WAF or ASM virtual server configured with a DoS profile with Proactive Bot Defense versions prior to 14.1.0, or a Bot Defense profile versions 14.1.0 and later, may...

Coinbase Employee Falls for SMS Scam in Cyber Attack, Limited Data Exposed

Popular cryptocurrency exchange platform Coinbase disclosed that it experienced a cybersecurity attack that targeted its employees. The company said its "cyber controls prevented the attacker from gaining direct system access and prevented any loss of funds or compromise of customer information."...

Franco-Israeli Gang Linked to $40 Million CEO Scam Busted

By Habiba Rashid Europol searched 8 houses in Israel and France, with the main culprit arrested in Israel along with seven others. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Franco-Israeli Gang Linked to $40 Million CEO Scam Busted...

Crypto Buyers Beware: 1 in 4 New Tokens of Any Value Is a Scam

And according to tracing firm Chainalysis, one very prolific scammer ran at least 264 of those scams in 2022 alone...

Spam and phishing in 2022

Figures of the year In 2022: 48.63% of all emails around the world and 52.78% of all emails in the Russian segment of the internet were spam As much as 29.82% of all spam emails originated in Russia Kaspersky Mail Anti-Virus blocked 166,187,118 malicious email attachments Our Anti-Phishing system...