PayPal phishing campaign goes after more than just your login credentials

A new phishing campaign targeting PayPal users aims to get extensive data from potential victims. The data its after includes government documents like passport, as well as selfie photos. In a nutshell, its an extensive form of information theft, the likes of which could result in someones identi...

5 ways to avoid being catfished

Today, many Americans will head out to the water—not to swim, but to catch a catfish in time for National Catfish Day. But when we talk about catfishing in cybersecurity, we mean something different. Here, catfishing refers to someone who assumes someone elses identity online in order to harass,...

Nigerian Tesla: 419 scammer gone malware distributor unmasked

Agent Tesla is a well-known data stealer written in .NET that has been active since 2014 and is perhaps one of the most popular payloads observed in malspam campaigns. While looking for threats targeting Ukraine, we identified a group we call "Nigerian Tesla" that has been dabbling into phishing...

Google Sues Scammer for Running 'Puppy Fraud Scheme' Website

Google on Monday disclosed that it's taking legal action against a nefarious actor who has been spotted operating fraudulent websites to defraud unsuspecting people into buying non-existent puppies. "The actor used a network of fraudulent websites that claimed to sell basset hound puppies — with...

FBI catches up with one of its Most Wanted, arrests head of advance-fee crime network

Some dont mind putting extra effort into making their crime appear as legitimate as possible by perpetuating more lies as long as they are guaranteed money in the end. Osondu Victor Igwilo is one such Nigerian scammer. The "catchers" 52-year-old Igwilo has been on the Federal Bureau of...

Valorant cheats on YouTube are actually information-stealing malware

Valorant, the popular free-to-play team based shooter, is attracting the attention of scammers. It’s reported that a malware distribution campaign is leveraging YouTube to push infection files. The campaign distributes a file known for password theft, and hunts for those passwords in browsers,...

How to avoid being scammed this Valentine’s Day

With Valentines Day approaching, you can be sure that the scammers will want to take advantage of lovebirds everywhere. From romance scams and sextortion, to fake dating sites and phishing campaigns, heres how to avoid a sting in the tail this Valentines Day. Romance scams Stories of online roman...

Crypto.com Finally Admits It Lost $30 Million in a Hack

Plus: Scammer arrests, the NSA plays defense, and more of the week's top security news...

John McAfee Dies in Spanish Prison After Extradition Order

The antivirus pioneer and alleged cryptocurrency scammer was 75 years old...

Microsoft Teams: Very Bad Tabs Could Have Led to BEC

Attackers could have stepped through a yawning security hole in the Microsoft Teams chat service that would have let them masquerade as a targeted company’s employee, by reading and sending email on their behalf. On Monday, Tenable’s Evan Grant explained in a post that he found the bug in Microso...

Apple Exec Calls Mac Malware Levels Unacceptable Under Oath

Ireland's ransomware crisis continues, a Russian scammer gets sentenced, and more of the week's top security news...

iOS Kids Game Morphs into Underground Crypto Casino

A kids’ game called “Jungle Run” that, until recently, was available in the Apple App store, was secretly a cryptocurrency-funded casino set up to scam people out of money. Join experts from Digital Shadows Austin Merritt, Malwarebytes Adam Kujawa and Sift Kevin Lee to find out how cybercrime...

Phone Cloning Scam

A newspaper in Malaysia is reporting on a cell phone cloning scam. The scammer convinces the victim to lend them their cell phone, and the scammer quickly clones it. Whats clever about this scam is that the victim is an Uber driver and the scammer is the passenger, so the driver is naturally busy...

Online scams: How to give scammers a taste of their own medicine

By Owais Sultan Internet users are much more aware of these scams these days, but they do still happen. Let’s look at the different types of internet scams. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Online scams: How to give scammers a taste of their own medicine...

Electrolux, Others Conned Out of Big Money by BEC Scammer

A 64-year-old business email compromise BEC guru has plead guilty in Houston to bilking appliance giant Electrolux and one other company out of a combined half a million dollars — in addition to other fraud schemes. Kenenty Hwan Kim a.k.a. Myung Kim admitted in federal court the Southern District...

What to do when you receive an extortion email

In the last few weeks, there has been an upswing in people receiving threatening, extortion email messages, demanding payment to avoid release of sensitive information. Most of the time, these emails are what we call "sextortion" emails, as they claim that malware on your computer has captured...

Spam and phishing in Q3 2019

Quarterly highlights Amazon Prime In Q3, we registered numerous scam mailings related to Amazon Prime. Most of the phishing emails with a link to a fake Amazon login page offered new prices or rewards for buying things, or reported problems with membership, etc. Against the backdrop of September'...

Instagram clamps down on fake messages with anti-phishing tool

Instagram accounts will always be a popular target for scammers. You might not think it’s a big deal if someone has their account swiped, but it’s often the vanguard of many online businesses. A takeover, or a deletion, can be absolutely devastating. Smart hacking crews are always in the...

Binance KYC Data Leak — Crypto Exchange Sets $290,000 Bounty On Blackmailer

Malta-based cryptocurrency exchange Binance has become a victim of a ransom demand from a scammer who claimed to have hacked the KYC Know Your Customer data of thousands of its customers. The unknown attacker threatened the world's largest cryptocurrency exchange by volume to release KYC...

‘Land Lordz’ Service Powers Airbnb Scams

Scammers who make a living swindling Airbnb.com customers have a powerful new tool at their disposal: A software-as-a-service offering called "Land Lordz," which helps automate the creation and management of fake Airbnb Web sites and the sending of messages to advertise the fraudulent listings. T...