New PayPal Scam Sends Verified Invoices With Fake Support Numbers

Hackread.com exclusive: Scammers are using verified PayPal invoices to launch callback phishing attacks. Learn how the "Alexzander" invoice bypasses Google filters...

Fake PayPal invoice from Geek Squad is a tech support scam

One of our employees received this suspicious email and showed it to me. Although it's a pretty straightforward attempt to lure targets into calling the scammers, it's worth writing up because it looks like it was sent out in bulk. Let's look at the red flags. Firstly, the sender address : PayPal...

A week in security (March 3 – March 9)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: TikTok: Major investigation launched into platform’s use of children’s data PayPal scam abuses Docusign API to spread phishy emails Android zero-day vulnerabilities actively abused. Update as soon as you can I spoke to a task scammer. Here’s how it went Android...

PayPal scam abuses Docusign API to spread phishy emails

PayPal scammers are using an old Docusign trick to enhance the trustworthiness of their phishing emails. We've received several reports of this recently, so we dug into how the scam works. The Docusign Application Programming Interface API allows “customers” to send emails that come from genuine...

A week in security (February 24 – March 2)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: Millions of stalkerware users exposed again PayPal’s "no-code checkout" abused by scammers Countries and companies are fighting at the expense of our data privacy Roblox called "real-life nightmare for children" as Roblox and Discord sued Android happy to check you...

Watch out for this triple threat PayPal phish

ZDNet reports an interesting form of PayPal scam sent to one of their own writers. The scam is a so-called "triple threat" phish, in that it gives the scammer three different ways to potentially collect some ill gotten gains from potential victims. The idea is that if one of the three tactics...

The Kit That Wants It All: Scam Mimics PayPal?s Known Security Measures

Identity theft affects millions of people every year. See this piece on a scam purporting to be PayPal in an effort to gain total identity theft...

The Kit That Wants It All: Scam Mimics PayPal’s Known Security Measures

Identity theft affects millions of people every year. See this piece on a scam purporting to be PayPal in an effort to gain total identity theft...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake PayPal Account Confirmation Email Messages on January 6, 2014

Medium Alert ID: 32336 First Published: 2014 January 7 20:29 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain a PayPal account confirmation for the recipient. The text in the email message attempts to convince the recipie...

Threat Outbreak Alert: Fake Account Information Request Email Messages on August 29, 2013

Medium Alert ID: 30545 First Published: 2013 August 29 15:38 GMT Version: 1 Summary Cisco Security has detected significant activity related to spam email messages that claim to contain an identity confirmation notification from PayPal for the recipient. The text in the message body attempts to...