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A week in security (August 1 - August 7)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Have we lost the fight for data privacy? Lock and Code S03E16 Wrestling star Mick Foleys Twitter compromised, selling PS5 consoles Millions of Arris routers are vulnerable to path traversal attacks When a sextortion victim fights back How to protect yourself and yo...
Phishy calls and emails play on energy cost increase fears
Gas and electricity price concerns are rife at the moment, with spiralling costs and bigger increases waiting down the line. Sadly this makes the subject valuable material for fraudsters, playing into people's fears with a dash of social engineering to make them worse off than they were previousl...
Bank fraud scammers trick victims with claims of bogus Zelle transfers
It pays to be careful where cold calls from someone claiming to work for your bank are concerned. Scam callers are impersonating bank staff, with suggestions of dubious payments made to your account. One unfortunate individual has already lost around $1,000 to this slice of telephone-banking base...
Bank fraud scammers trick victims with claims of bogus Zelle transfers
It pays to be careful where cold calls from someone claiming to work for your bank are concerned. Scam callers are impersonating bank staff, with suggestions of dubious payments made to your account. One unfortunate individual has already lost around $1,000 to this slice of telephone-banking base...
Universities Put Email Users at Cyber Risk
Top U.S. universities are among the worst in the world at protecting users from email fraud, lacking security measures to prevent common threat tactics such as domain spoofing or other types of fraudulent emails, researchers have found. Ninety-seven percent of the top 10 universities in the Unite...
US Websites Targeted by 40% of the Bad Bot Traffic Worldwide
Bad bot attacks are often the first indicator of fraudulent activity targeting your website. This activity may be over-the-top, like validating stolen user credentials and credit card information to later be sold on the dark web or scraping proprietary data to gain a competitive advantage. Bot...
Criminals using compromised social media accounts to "post indecent images of children" says UK cybercrime organization
Action Fraud, the UK's national reporting center for fraud and cybercrime, is warning of a very disturbing scam involving social media and "indecent images of children." Details are light, but social media fans should take this as a warning to lock down their accounts immediately...
Imperva Earns Three Cyber Defense Global InfoSec Awards for 2022
The Cyber Defense Awards in conjunction with Cyber Defense Magazine recently announced the winners of their prestigious annual Global Infosec Awards for 2022. We are proud to say that Imperva earned three Global Infosec Awards; as Most Innovative for Application Security, Cutting Edge for Cloud...
A week in security (July 18 – July 24)
Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Extortionists target restaurants, demand money to take down bad reviews The FTC will go after companies misusing location, health, and other sensitive data Roblox breached: Internal documents posted online by unknown attackers Warning for WordPress admins: Uninstal...
Massive Losses Define Epidemic of ‘Pig Butchering’
U.S. state and federal investigators are being inundated with reports from people whove lost hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in connection with a complex investment scam known as "pig butchering," wherein people are lured by flirtatious strangers online into investing in cryptocurren...
The vulnerability of the iControl REST API interface for access control and remote authentication, the BIG-IP Access Policy Manager, the virtual server for application protection, the BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall, the BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager, the infrastructure status analysis tool, the BIG-IP Application Acceleration Manager, the DDoS protection module, the BIG-IP Fraud Protection Service, the Internet traffic balancing system, the BIG-IP Link Controller, and the local traffic balancing system – all of these allow a perpetrator to cause service interruptions.
The vulnerabilities of the iControl REST API interface for access control and remote authentication, the BIG-IP Access Policy Manager, the virtual server for application protection, the BIG-IP Advanced Web Application Firewall, the BIG-IP Advanced Firewall Manager, the infrastructure status...
FBI Warns Fake Crypto Apps are Bilking Investors of Millions
Threat actors have defrauded 244 U.S. investors of about $42 million through fake cryptocurrency apps that exploit people’s legitimate investments in digital currency, the FBI has revealed. The agency observed a number of cybercriminal campaigns that duped people into downloading malicious apps...
Fraudulent cryptocurrency investment apps are duping investors
Together with the Department of Homeland Security DHS and the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, the FBI has released a warning about cybercriminals creating fraudulent cryptocurrency investment apps in order to defraud cryptocurrency investors. The threat actors convince...
FBI Warns of Fake Cryptocurrency Apps Stealing Millions from Investors
The U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI has warned of cyber criminals building rogue cryptocurrency-themed apps to defraud investors in the virtual assets space. "The FBI has observed cyber criminals contacting U.S. investors, fraudulently claiming to offer legitimate cryptocurrency investme...
New variant of Android SpyJoker malware removed from Play Store after 3 million+ installs
Security researcher Maxime Ingrao has found a new variant of Android/Trojan.Spy.Joker which hes dubbed Autolycos. Malware in this family secretly subscribes users to premium services. The researcher noted that the eight applications that contained this malware had racked up a total of over 3...
Low-income consumers preyed on by fake ISP during pandemic, FCC says
The FCC Federal Communications Commission has proposed a fine of $220,210 against Kyle Traxler of Ohio for allegedly establishing the bogus internet provider, Cleo Communications, to scam low-income consumers. The victims believed they were receiving government-approved discounts on internet...
Microsoft Warns of Large-Scale AiTM Phishing Attacks Against Over 10,000 Organizations
Microsoft on Tuesday disclosed that a large-scale phishing campaign targeted over 10,000 organizations since September 2021 by hijacking Office 365's authentication process even on accounts secured with multi-factor authentication MFA. "The attackers then used the stolen credentials and session...
Text-based fraud: from 419 scams to vishing
E-mail scammers typically combine social engineering with technical skills to bypass spam filters and persuade the recipient to reply. But there is a specific class of attacks that is technically stuck somewhere in the late 90s/early 00s, in the era of CRT monitors and sluggish internet: we are...
Protection Against Online Scams: How to Keep Your Credit Safe
By Owais Sultan Credit card fraud happens when someone steals your credit information and uses it to make purchases or borrow… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Protection Against Online Scams: How to Keep Your Credit Safe...
Microsoft Warns of Evolving Toll Fraud Android Malware Draining Wallets
By Deeba Ahmed Those still using older versions of the Android operating system are at risk. Microsofts 365 Defender team has detected a… This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Microsoft Warns of Evolving Toll Fraud Android Malware Draining Wallets...