GEICO Alerts Customers Hackers Stole Driver License Data for Two Months

Threat actors stole driver license numbers from customers of GEICO insurance for nearly two months earlier this year due to a security flaw on its website that has since been fixed. The second-largest auto insurance provider in the United States disclosed the vulnerability in a data breach notice...

Online scams: How Safe Are the Websites You Visit?

By Uzair Amir Every year, millions of unsuspecting people fall victim to scams online. Fraudsters can cause irreparable damage to your bank balance, your reputation, and your life. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Online scams: How Safe Are the Websites You Visit?...

GoDaddy Employees Used in Attacks on Multiple Cryptocurrency Services

Fraudsters redirected email and web traffic destined for several cryptocurrency trading platforms over the past week. The attacks were facilitated by scams targeting employees at GoDaddy, the worlds largest domain name registrar, KrebsOnSecurity has learned. The incident is the latest incursion a...

Minecraft Apps on Google Play Fleece Players Out of Big Money

Fans of the popular Minecraft video game are in the crosshairs of cybercriminals, who have loaded up Google Play with scam apps bent on fleecing players out of cash. According to researchers, the mobile apps for Android fool users into spending hundreds of dollars per month, by offering skins,...

Wisc. GOP's $2.3M MAGA Hat Debacle Showcases Fraud Concerns

The Wisconsin Republican party’s war chest is lighter by $2.3 million after scammers posing as MAGA-hat vendors were able to spoof invoices in what appears to be a basic business email compromise BEC attack. It’s just the latest in a litany of attacks related to the upcoming election, and it...

Alien Android Banking Trojan Sidesteps 2FA

A newly uncovered banking trojan called Alien is invading Android devices worldwide, using an advanced ability to bypass two-factor authentication 2FA security measures to steal victim credentials. Once it has infected a device, the RAT aims to steal passwords from at least 226 mobile application...

The impact of Covid-19 on SOC reporting

The audit cycle for organizations that receive SOC reports includes new challenges related to Covid-19. Remote workforces are now the norm throughout the world, which introduces new risks. For example, connecting to corporate networks using personal computers that may be infected with malware is...

The Nigerian Fraudsters Ripping Off the Unemployment System

Security researchers have spotted the “Scattered Canary” group scamming vital benefits programs amid the Covid-19 pandemic...

New Cyber Threat Index Shows Industries Are Under Attack in Uncertain Times

It has been more than a month since businesses around the world started to implement contingencies in response to the Coronavirus. The Cyber Threat Index Report by Imperva Research Labs tracks changes in traffic and attack trends across multiple industries and countries. This month’s edition look...

New IRS Site Could Make it Easy for Thieves to Intercept Some Stimulus Payments

The U.S. federal government is now in the process of sending Economic Impact Payments by direct deposit to millions of Americans. Most who are eligible for payments can expect to have funds direct-deposited into the same bank accounts listed on previous years' tax filings sometime next week. Toda...

ThreatList: Skype-Themed Apps Hide a Raft of Malware

Popular conferencing apps have become a major cybercrime lure during the COVID-19 work-from-home era – and Skype is the undisputed leader when it comes to being impersonated by malicious downloads, researchers have found. An April analysis from Kaspersky uncovered a total of 120,000 suspicious...

Europol Arrests 26 SIM Swapping Fraudsters For Stealing Over $3 Million

Europol, along with the Spanish and the Romanian national police, has arrested 26 individuals in connection with the theft of over €3.5 million $3.9 million by hijacking people's phone numbers via SIM swapping attacks. The law enforcement agencies arrested 12 and 14 people in Spain and Romania,...

Rocket Loader skimmer impersonates CloudFlare library in clever scheme

Update: The digital certificate issued for https.ps has been revoked by GlobalSign. Fraudsters are known for using social engineering tricks to dupe their victims, often times by impersonating authority figures to instill trust. In a recent blog post, we noted how criminals behind Magecart skimme...

Fraudsters cloak credit card skimmer with fake content delivery network, ngrok server

Threat actors love to abuse legitimate brands and infrastructure—this, we know. Last year we exposed how web skimmers had found their way onto Amazon's Cloudfront content delivery network CDN via insecure S3 buckets. Now, we discovered scammers pretending to be CDNs while exfiltrating data and...

Burning Man Tickets for $225? Yep, Too Good to Be True

Burning Man aficionados anxious to get their tickets squared away for the 2020 “experience” should beware: Fake concert organizers are offering passes in what researchers say is a very convincing and sophisticated scam effort. Burning Man, which bills itself as a “vibrant participatory metropolis...

A Light at the End of Liberty Reserve’s Demise?

In May 2013, the U.S. Justice Department seized Liberty Reserve, alleging the virtual currency service acted as a $6 billion financial hub for the cybercrime world. Prompted by assurances that the government would one day afford Liberty Reserve users a chance to reclaim any funds seized as part o...

Khan Academy: EMAIL SPOOFING

Hey KHANACADEMY, I have found Email Spoofing type of Vulnerability in your Website. Attacker can use your E-Mail to send emails to others. Email spoofing is the creation of email messages with a forged sender address. Because the core email protocols do not have any mechanism for authentication, ...

Fraudsters changing contact details of banks on Google Maps to scam users

By Waqas Don’t trust Google Maps for banks’ contact details - At least not for now. Scammers are now increasingly interested in defrauding users through Google Maps that lets users change or correct the listings displayed on the service. Seeing this as an effectively exploitable opportunity,...

How Do You Fight a $12B Fraud Problem? One Scammer at a Time

The fraudsters behind the often laughable Nigerian prince email scams have long since branched out into far more serious and lucrative forms of fraud, including account takeovers, phishing, dating scams, and malware deployment. Combating such a multifarious menace can seem daunting, and it calls...

Plant Your Flag, Mark Your Territory

Many people, particularly older folks, proudly declare they avoid using the Web to manage various accounts tied to their personal and financial data -- including everything from utilities and mobile phones to retirement benefits and online banking services. The reasoning behind this strategy is a...