AI scammers target Gmail accounts, say they have your death certificate
Typical AI supported scams are after your Google account by pretending to follow up on account recovery requests
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Serious Security: How dEliBeRaTe tYpOs might imProVe DNS security
Credit to Author: Paul Ducklin| Date: Mon, 23 Jan 2023 17:59:18 +0000
It’s a really cool and super-simple trick. The question is, “Will it help?”
Read moreWatch out for the email that says “You have a new voicemail!”
Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2022 09:24:27 +0000
An email campaign lures users with a voicemail notification to enter their Office 365 credentials on a fake login page.
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Read moreTech support fraud is still very much alive, says latest FBI report
Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Mon, 28 Mar 2022 13:15:27 +0000
In 2021 the IC3 received 23,903 complaints related to tech support fraud from victims in 70 countries. Stay away from these scammers.
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Read moreMeet Exotic Lily, access broker for ransomware and other malware peddlers
Credit to Author: Pieter Arntz| Date: Fri, 18 Mar 2022 22:58:48 +0000
Exotic Lily is the name given to a group of cybercriminals that specialized as an initial access broker, serving groups like Conti and Diavol ransomware.
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Read moreFBI: Cybercrime tore a $3.5b hole in victims’ pockets last year
Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Thu, 13 Feb 2020 12:45:23 +0000
The FBI’s Internet Crime Report shows that business email comprise is the biggest money-maker for cybercriminals.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/z_YNbnD3_LU” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read moreHorseDeal Riding on The Curveball!
Credit to Author: Jayesh kulkarni| Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2020 06:17:49 +0000
It’s surprising to see how quickly attackers make use of new vulnerabilities in malware campaigns. Microsoft recently patched a very interesting vulnerability in their monthly Patch Tuesday update for January 2020. It’s a spoofing vulnerability in Windows CryptoAPI (Crypt32.dll) validation mechanism for Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) certificates. An attacker could…
Read moreFTC warns VoIP providers that help robocallers: we can and will sue
Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Mon, 03 Feb 2020 12:21:32 +0000
It put 19 internet-calling companies on notice that helping illegal robocalls is illegal. It has sued before, and it can do it again.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/WgDkr2jGNg4″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read more9th Methbot suspect arrested in massive clickfraud ring
Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Fri, 24 Jan 2020 10:57:37 +0000
How Sergey Denisoff described his early ad-buying ventures: buying BS popup traffic and reselling it to buyers demanding BS traffic.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/M-uuNM1-C74″ height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
Read moreRobocalls now flooding US phones with 200m calls per day
Credit to Author: Lisa Vaas| Date: Tue, 17 Sep 2019 11:24:15 +0000
According to a new report, nearly 30% of all US calls placed in the first half of 2019 were garbage, as in, nuisance, scam or fraud calls.<img src=”http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/nakedsecurity/~4/UDmV3nOCTag” height=”1″ width=”1″ alt=””/>
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