Tag: Scam

January 30, 2024

The New York attorney general sued the third-largest bank in the United States over its alleged failure to protect consumers from scammers and its refusal to make victims whole after online thieves have plundered their life savings. Manhattan-based Citibank, state […]

January 17, 2024

Scammers are buying up cheap domain names to host sites that sell dodgy health products using fake articles, according to cybercrime disruption outfit Netcraft. The firm on Tuesday noted that purveyors of legal-but-dubious health products often run fake news campaigns […]

December 18, 2023

Cryptocurrency-based crime has metastasized into many forms. Because of the ease with which cryptocurrency ignores borders and enables multinational crime rings to quickly obtain and launder funds, and because of widespread confusion about how cryptocurrency functions, a wide range of […]

December 8, 2023

Human trafficking for the purposes of populating cyber scam call centers is expanding beyond southeast Asia, where the crime was previously isolated. Interpol revealed this week that an ongoing investigation has discovered evidence of abuse emanating from South America and […]

March 3, 2023

The terms “spam” and “phishing” are often used interchangeably. Yet, they refer to distinct types of deceptive and unwanted cyber communications. Both forms of communication aim to trick individuals into divulging personal information, such as login credentials or personal details, […]

June 22, 2022

Europol on Tuesday announced the dismantling of an organized crime group that dabbled in phishing, fraud, scams, and money laundering activities. The cross-border operation, which involved law enforcement authorities from Belgium and the Netherlands, saw the arrests of nine individuals […]

June 16, 2022

For months now, millions of Facebook users have been duped by the same phishing scam that cons users into handing over their account credentials. According to a report outlining the phishing campaign, the scam is still active and continues to […]

June 3, 2022

A crew using malware that performs cryptomining and clipboard-hacking operations have made off with at least $1.7 million in stolen cryptocurrency. The malware, dubbed Trojan.Clipminer, leverages the compute power of compromised systems to mine for cryptocurrency as well as identify […]

June 2, 2022

Discord a public chat application designed for gamers has grown popular among crypto owners all over the world. Attackers are targeting the Discord servers of several popular nonfungible token (NFT) projects. Josh Fraser founder of Origin protocol shared a thread […]

May 17, 2022

Facebook-themed messages are a frequent source of bogus links from both spam and compromised accounts. Whether you receive the messages via SMS, the Messenger app, or just inside regular web chat, it pays to be careful. A wide variety of […]

May 11, 2022

Countries south of the Sahara are some of the world’s fastest-growing online markets — which makes them both attractive and vulnerable to cybercrime, say specialists. “The issue of cybersecurity has to be raised to the core duties of the state,” […]

May 6, 2022

Billing fraud is one of the most common sources of income for cybercriminals. There are currently a number of known mobile Trojans specializing in secretly subscribing users to paid services. They usually pay for legitimate services in a user’s name […]

May 3, 2022

Cybercrime is increasingly common – but we tend to hear about multi-million dollar heists that affect big business and governments. However, normal people are also being targeted by cybercriminals every single day. Recent shows like The Tinder Swindler and Inventing […]

April 21, 2022

Twitter philanthropists are a controversial emergence on the social media platform. In essence, Twitter-based philanthropy is about incredibly rich people helping out those who need it. The help is random, and often focused around performing a task like listening to […]

April 4, 2022

Cybercriminals love easy prey, and dating apps appear to be a hunting ground full of potential victims. There are numerous stories of Tinder and Hinge users who got scammed out of their entire life savings for simply falling in love […]

March 24, 2022

What are phishing kits? One of the most common tricks scammers use in phishing attacks is to create a fake official page of a famous brand. Attackers tend to copy design elements from the real website, which is why users […]

January 27, 2022

Threat actors are increasingly using scams that spoof package couriers like DHL or the U.S. Postal Service in authentic-looking phishing emails that attempt to dupe victims into downloading credential-stealing or other malicious payloads, researchers have found. Researchers from Avanan, a […]

November 4, 2021

A new multistage phishing campaign spoofs Amazon’s order notification page and includes a phony customer service voice number where the attackers request the victim’s credit card details to correct the errant “order.” The campaign, highlighted in new research from Avanan […]

October 18, 2021

BEC attacks are generally low-volume but, according to a recent survey by GreatHorn, 71% of organizations experienced at least one in the past year. Trend Micro’s latest research has revealed that scammers have been ramping up their efforts and that […]

September 14, 2021

Cybersecurity researchers have discovered a phishing kit that’s being used by different threat actors to scam people around the world. Researchers at vpnMentor chanced upon two different campaigns that used slightly altered versions of the phishing kit, to target people […]