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cryptocurrency
Tactics that make crypto giveaway scams so successful

The illicit market for crypto giveaway scams has expanded, offering various services to facilitate fraudulent activity. The proliferation of fake crypto giveaways can be …

person
Beware of companies offering paid sextortion assistance

Sextortion victims are already in a vulnerable position, and shady companies are taking advantage of this vulnerability to offer “sextortion assistance” services …

Phishing
Phishing emails from legit YouTube address hitting inboxes

Phishers are targeting YouTube content creators by leveraging the service’s Share Video by Email feature, which delivers the phishing email from an official YouTube …

npm
Flood of malicious packages results in NPM registry DoS

Attackers are exploiting the good reputation and “openness” of the popular public JavaScript software registry NPM to deliver malware and scams, but are also …

Department of Justice
DoJ cracks down on cryptocurrency fraud, seizes $112 million in linked funds

The Department of Justice (DoJ) declared the confiscation of digital currency valued at approximately $112 million connected to fraudulent cryptocurrency investments. …

QR codes
Threat actors are experimenting with QR codes

Hackers are diversifying attack methods, including a surge in QR code phishing campaigns, according to HP. From February 2022, Microsoft began blocking macros in Office files …

criminal
Internet crime in 2022: Over $3 billion lost to investment scammers

“In 2022, investment scam losses were the most (common or dollar amount) scheme reported to the Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3),” the FBI shared in its 2022 …

ChatGPT
Fake ChatGPT Chrome extension targeted Facebook Ad accounts

ChatGPT has garnered a lot of questions about its security and capacity for manipulation, partly because it is a new software that has seen unprecedented growth (hosting 100 …

identity theft
Don’t be fooled by a pretty icon, malicious apps hide in plain sight

Apps, whether for communication, productivity or gaming, are one of the biggest threats to mobile security, according to McAfee. The end of 2022 saw the release of some …

BEC scams
Expert strategies for defending against multilingual email-based attacks

BEC (Business Email Compromise) attacks have become increasingly prevalent in recent years, with cybercriminals using a variety of tactics to gain access to sensitive …

thief
Resecurity identified the investment scam network Digital Smoke

Resecurity identified one of the largest investment fraud networks by size and volume of operations created to defraud Internet users from Australia, Canada, China, Colombia, …

warning scam
FTC reveals alarming increase in scam activity, costing consumers billions

Newly released Federal Trade Commission (FTC) data shows that consumers reported losing nearly $8.8 billion to fraud in 2022, an increase of more than 30 percent over the …

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