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‘The Manipulaters’ Improve Phishing, Still Fail at Opsec

April 15, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, bluebtcus@gmail.com, Breadcrumbs, domaintools.com, fudco, fudpage, fudsender, fudtools, heartsender, Ne'er-Do-Well News, saim raza, the manipulaters, we code solutions, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 03 Apr 2024 13:16:25 +0000

Roughly nine years ago, KrebsOnSecurity profiled a Pakistan-based cybercrime group called “The Manipulaters,” a sprawling web hosting network of phishing and spam delivery platforms. In January 2024, The Manipulaters pleaded with this author to unpublish previous stories about their work, claiming the group had turned over a new leaf and gone legitimate. But new research suggests that while they have improved the quality of their products and services, these nitwits still fail spectacularly at hiding their illegal activities.

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Thread Hijacking: Phishes That Prey on Your Curiosity

April 15, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, adam kidan, brett sholtis, empire workforce solutions, lancasteronline.com, Latest Warnings, multi-persona phishing, Ne'er-Do-Well News, phishing, proofpoint, ryan kalember, thread hijacking, tom murse, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 28 Mar 2024 23:56:13 +0000

Thread hijacking attacks. They happen when someone you know has their email account compromised, and you are suddenly dropped into an existing conversation between the sender and someone else. These missives draw on the recipient’s natural curiosity about being copied on a private discussion, which is modified to include a malicious link or attachment. Here’s the story of a recent thread hijacking attack in which a journalist was copied on a phishing email from the unwilling subject of a recent scoop.

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Mozilla Drops Onerep After CEO Admits to Running People-Search Networks

March 22, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, dimitiri shelest, firefox, firefox monitor, haveibeenpwned, haveibeenpwned.com, Mozilla Foundation, mozilla monitor, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nuwber, onerep, spamit, troy hunt, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 22 Mar 2024 19:02:41 +0000

The nonprofit organization that supports the Firefox web browser said today it is winding down its new partnership with Onerep, an identity protection service recently bundled with Firefox that offers to remove users from hundreds of people-search sites. The move comes just days after a report by KrebsOnSecurity forced Onerep’s CEO to admit that he has founded dozens of people-search networks over the years.

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Calendar Meeting Links Used to Spread Mac Malware

February 28, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, bluenoroff, chris ueland, hunt.io, kaspersky labs, Latest Warnings, lazarus group, mac malware, recorded future, Web Fraud 2.0, x-protect

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2024 16:56:43 +0000

Malicious hackers are targeting people in the cryptocurrency space in attacks that start with a link added to the target’s account at Calendly, a popular free calendar application for scheduling appointments and meetings. The attackers impersonate established cryptocurrency investors and ask to schedule a video conference call. But clicking the meeting link provided by the scammers prompts the user to run a script that quietly installs malware on macOS systems.

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Fla. Man Charged in SIM-Swapping Spree is Key Suspect in Hacker Groups Oktapus, Scattered Spider

January 30, 2024 0 Comments 0ktapus, A Little Sunshine, Breadcrumbs, elijah, grails, group-ib, king bob, mailchimp, Ne'er-Do-Well News, noah michael urban, okta, plex, scattered spider, signal, SIM swapping, sosa, twilio, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 30 Jan 2024 19:07:18 +0000

On Jan. 9, 2024, U.S. authorities arrested a 19-year-old Florida man charged with wire fraud, aggravated identity theft, and conspiring with others to use SIM-swapping to steal cryptocurrency. Sources close to the investigation tell KrebsOnSecurity the accused was a key member of a criminal hacking group blamed for a string of cyber intrusions at major U.S. technology companies during the summer of 2022.

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Using Google Search to Find Software Can Be Risky

January 25, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, domaintools, Google, Latest Warnings, malvertising, sentinel one, tom hegel, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2024 18:38:43 +0000

Google continues to struggle with cybercriminals running malicious ads on its search platform to trick people into downloading booby-trapped copies of popular free software applications. The malicious ads, which appear above organic search results and often precede links to legitimate sources of the same software, can make searching for software on Google a dicey affair.

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Canadian Man Stuck in Triangle of E-Commerce Fraud

January 19, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, adavio, amazon.ca, duncan's first nation, rcmp, royal canadian mounted police, The Coming Storm, timothy barker, triangulation fraud, walmart, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2024 15:34:53 +0000

A Canadian man who says he’s been falsely charged with orchestrating a complex e-commerce scam is seeking to clear his name. His case appears to involve “triangulation fraud,” which occurs when a consumer purchases something online — from a seller on Amazon or eBay, for example — but the seller doesn’t actually own the item for sale. Instead, the seller purchases the item from an online retailer using stolen payment card data. In this scam, the unwitting buyer pays the scammer and receives what they ordered, and very often the only party left to dispute the transaction is the owner of the stolen payment card.

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E-Crime Rapper ‘Punchmade Dev’ Debuts Card Shop

January 17, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, constella intelligence, devon turner, devtakeflight, devtakeflightbeats inc., domaintools.com, nba 2k17, Ne'er-Do-Well News, obn dev, obn group llc, punchmade dev, punchmade llc, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 17 Jan 2024 17:00:40 +0000

The rapper and social media personality Punchmade Dev is perhaps best known for his flashy videos singing the praises of a cybercrime lifestyle. With memorable hits such as “Internet Swiping” and “Million Dollar Criminal” earning millions of views, Punchmade has leveraged his considerable following to peddle tutorials on how to commit financial crimes online. But until recently, there wasn’t much to support a conclusion that Punchmade was actually doing the cybercrime things he promotes in his songs.

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Who’s Behind the SWAT USA Reshipping Service?

November 6, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, apathyp, apathyr8@jabber.ccc.de, Breadcrumbs, constella intelligence, gezze@mail.ru, gezze@yandex.ru, intel 471, ivan sherban, mynetwatchman, Ne'er-Do-Well News, swat usa drop service, triploo@mail.ru, universalo, verified, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 06 Nov 2023 13:51:31 +0000

Last week, KrebsOnSecurity broke the news that one of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing its internal operations, finances and organizational structure. In today’s Part II, we’ll examine clues about the real-life identity left behind by “Fearless,” the nickname chosen by the proprietor of the SWAT USA Drops service.

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Russian Reshipping Service ‘SWAT USA Drop’ Exposed

November 5, 2023 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, drops, drops for stuff, fearlless, Ne'er-Do-Well News, reshipping mules, stuffers, swat usa drop service, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 02 Nov 2023 19:55:34 +0000

One of the largest cybercrime services for laundering stolen merchandise was hacked recently, exposing its internal operations, finances and organizational structure. Here’s a closer look at the Russia-based SWAT USA Drop Service, which currently employs more than 1,200 people across the United States who are knowingly or unwittingly involved in reshipping expensive consumer goods purchased with stolen credit cards.