Service Rents Email Addresses for Account Signups

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2023 20:09:13 +0000

One of the most expensive aspects of any cybercriminal operation is the time and effort it takes to create large numbers of new throwaway email accounts. Now a new service offers to help dramatically cut costs associated with large-scale spam and account creation campaigns, by paying people to sell their email account credentials and letting customers temporarily rent access to a vast pool of established accounts at major providers.

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AI-powered content farms start clogging search results with ad-stuffed spam

Categories: News

Tags: spam

Tags: AI

Tags: GPT

Tags: generated

Tags: content

Tags: farm

Tags: SEO

Tags: click

Tags: news

Tags: ad

Tags: advert

Tags: google

Tags: advertisers

We take a look at the potential issues surrounding AI-generated content produced on a mass scale.

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Avoid this “lost injured dog” Facebook hoax

Categories: News

Tags: facebook

Tags: scam

Tags: spam

Tags: hoax

Tags: dog

Tags: injured

Tags: lost

Tags: vet

Tags: missing

We take a look at a Facebook hoax which uses supposedly injured dogs as the lure for a bait and switch scam.

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Coronavirus-themed Campaign delivers Agent Tesla Malware

Credit to Author: Aniruddha Dolas| Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2023 10:16:09 +0000

  Summary: While the whole world fights against the COVID-19 pandemic, cybercriminals are busy exploiting the situation and…

The post Coronavirus-themed Campaign delivers Agent Tesla Malware appeared first on Quick Heal Blog | Latest computer security news, tips, and advice.

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

Categories: Awareness

Categories: News

Categories: Scams

Tags: iPhone

Tags: calendar

Tags: spam

Tags: iOS

Tags: mobile

Tags: device

Tags: ad

Tags: advert

Tags: popup

Tags: permission

Tags: remove

Tags: notification

Tags: Apple

Is your iPhone claiming that you’ve been hacked, your phone isn’t protected, or that viruses have damaged it? It could be calendar spam.

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Romance scammer given 25 years of alone time

Categories: News

Tags: Scam

Tags: spam

Tags: phish

Tags: BEC

Tags: business email compromise

Tags: romance

Tags: fake

Tags: fraud

Tags: wire

Tags: money mule

We take a look at a scammer, involved in both BEC fraud and romance scams, who has been jailed for a whopping 25 years.

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Exchange servers abused for spam through malicious OAuth applications

Categories: News

Tags: Exchange

Tags: OAuth

Tags: spam

Tags: MFA

Tags: Transport rules

Tags: connector

Threat actors have been using malicious OAuth applications to abuse Microsoft Exchange servers for their spam campaign.

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