How Your Real Flight Reservation Can Be Used to Scam You

Scammers use a booking technicality, traveler confusion, and promises of dirt-cheap tickets to offer hot deals that are anything but...

Why blocking ads is good for your digital health

Online content is largely powered and paid for by advertising. Almost every site you visit, every forum you browse, and even the online stores you buy things from is an advert extravaganza, and they dont just stop at showing cool offers for shirts at 50% off. The scaffolding the adverts sit on go...

A week in security (June 12 - 18)

Last week on Malwarebytes Labs: MOVEit discloses THIRD critical vulnerability Fake security researchers push malware files on GitHub LockBit ransomware advisory from CISA provides interesting insights Microsoft fixes six critical vulnerabilities in June Patch Tuesday Update Chrome now! Google fix...

Ransomware Hackers and Scammers Utilizing Cloud Mining to Launder Cryptocurrency

Ransomware actors and cryptocurrency scammers have joined nation-state actors in abusing cloud mining services to launder digital assets, new findings reveal. "Cryptocurrency mining is a crucial part of our industry, but it also holds special appeal to bad actors, as it provides a means to acquir...

Ticket scammers target Taylor Swift tour

Taylor Swift fans are being warned to be cautious when buying tickets for her current "Eras" tour, with scammers waiting in the wings to trick would-be gig goers. The Better Business Bureau says it has received somewhere in the region of 200 complaints from residents of Michigan, and theres bound...

Crypto Discord Communities Targeted by Malicious Bookmarks & JavaScript

By Waqas Discord admins, beware: scammers are hijacking accounts and stealing cryptocurrency funds by using malicious bookmarks in a new and tricky attack. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Crypto Discord Communities Targeted by Malicious Bookmarks & JavaScript...

Massive malvertising campaign targets seniors via fake Weebly sites

Knowing their audience is something scammers excel at, and for very good reason. This is particularly true for tech support scammers whose prime targets are seniors. By understanding what retirees are searching for and abusing various online platforms, crooks can precisely go after the demographi...

Sextortion "assistance" scammers con victims further

The FBI is warning of a particular aspect of sextortion scams: Supposed organisations that offer "help" to remove stolen images, often at a significant financial cost and no guarantee of success. Sextortion, the act of blackmailing individuals for cash in return for not leaking sensitive imagery...

How scammers employ IPFS for email phishing

The idea of creating Web 3.0 has been around since the end of 2000s. The new version of the world wide web should repair the weak points of Web 2.0., some of which are: featureless content, prevalence of proprietary solutions, and lack of safety in a centralized user data storage environment, whe...

AI-Generated Voice Deepfakes Aren’t Scary Good—Yet

The threat of scammers using voice deepfakes in their cons is real, but researchers say old-school voice-impersonation attacks are still the more pressing concern...

PayPal Scammers Using Legitimate Accounts to Send Phishing Invoices

By Deeba Ahmed Scammers are creating legit PayPal accounts and sending phishing invoices to unsuspected users and since the email comes from [email protected] chances of falling for this scam are more than usual. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: PayPal Scammers Using...

iPhone calendar spam: What it is, and how to remove it

If you open up your iPhone and see a variety of messages claiming that youve been hacked, your phone is not protected, that viruses have damaged your phone, or, my personal favourite, "Click to get rid of annoying ads", fear not. Its quite possible youve accidentally wandered into a common form o...

Googling for Software Downloads Is Extra Risky Right Now

Plus: The FTC cracks down on GoodRx, Microsoft boots “verified” phishing scammers, researchers disclose EV charger vulnerabilities, and more...

RedZei Chinese Scammers Targeting Chinese Students in the U.K.

Chinese international students in the U.K. have been targeted by persistent Chinese-speaking scammers for over a year as part of an activity dubbed RedZei aka RedThief. "The RedZei fraudsters have chosen their targets carefully, researched them and realized it was a rich victim group that is ripe...

Scammers Are Scamming Other Scammers Out of Millions of Dollars

On cybercrime forums, user complaints about being duped may accidentally expose their real identities...

16,000+ Scam Domains Aimed at FIFA World Cup Fans in Qatar

By Habiba Rashid From phishing attacks to selling fake tickets, scammers have set up thousands of domains to trick FIFA World Cup 2022 fans in Qatar. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: 16,000+ Scam Domains Aimed at FIFA World Cup Fans in Qatar...

Elon Musk's Twitter Blue Verification Is a Gift to Scammers

Anyone can get a blue tick on Twitter without proving who they are. And it’s already causing a ton of problems...

Evolution of BazarCall Social Engineering Tactics

Evolution of BazarCall Social Engineering Tactics By Daksh Kapur · October 6, 2022 What is BazarCall? As nicely defined in this article by Microsoft: BazarCall campaigns forgo malicious links or attachments in email messages in favor of phone numbers that recipients are misled into calling. It’s ...

Threat Source newsletter (Sept. 22, 2022) — Attackers are already using student loan relief for scams

By Jon Munshaw. Welcome to this week’s edition of the Threat Source newsletter. We’ve seen attackers capitalize on the news time and again, from COVID-19 to U.S.-North Korea relationships and, of course, holiday shopping sales every November. So, I was far from surprised to see that attackers are...

Scammers Leveraging Microsoft Team GIFs in Phishing Attacks

By Deeba Ahmed Dubbed GIFShell; the technique allows attackers to create a reverse shell to facilitate malicious command delivery via base64-encoded GIFs in MS Teams. This is a post from HackRead.com Read the original post: Scammers Leveraging Microsoft Team GIFs in Phishing Attacks...