Web Fraud 2.0 – Page 7 – PossibleThreat Articles

Battle with Bots Prompts Mass Purge of Amazon, Apple Employee Accounts on LinkedIn

October 20, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, amazon, anastacia brown, Apple, Binance, employment fraud, indeed, jay pinho, LinkedIn, mandiant, nicholas weaver, signalhire, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 20 Oct 2022 17:07:34 +0000

On October 10, 2022, there were 576,562 LinkedIn accounts that listed their current employer as Apple Inc. The next day, half of those profiles no longer existed. A similarly dramatic drop in the number of LinkedIn profiles claiming employment at Amazon comes as LinkedIn is struggling to combat a significant uptick in the creation of fake employee accounts that pair AI-generated profile photos with text lifted from legitimate users.

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Anti-Money Laundering Service AMLBot Cleans House

October 15, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, amlbot, antinalysis, incognito chain, nick bax, polina smoliar, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2022 14:08:59 +0000

AMLBot, a service that helps businesses avoid transacting with cryptocurrency wallets that have been sanctioned for cybercrime activity, said an investigation published by KrebsOnSecurity last year helped it shut down three dark web services that secretly resold its technology to help cybercrooks avoid detection by anti-money laundering systems.

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Glut of Fake LinkedIn Profiles Pits HR Against the Bots

October 5, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, hamish taylor, isoutsource, jason lathrop, linkedin bots, mark miller, The Coming Storm, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 05 Oct 2022 21:20:53 +0000

A recent proliferation of phony executive profiles on LinkedIn is creating something of an identity crisis for the business networking site, and for companies that rely on it to hire and screen prospective employees. The fabricated LinkedIn identities — which pair AI-generated profile photos with text lifted from legitimate accounts — are creating major headaches for corporate HR departments and for those managing invite-only LinkedIn groups.

Independent Krebs Security

Fake CISO Profiles on LinkedIn Target Fortune 500s

September 29, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, fake cisos, LinkedIn, Ne'er-Do-Well News, rich mason, The Coming Storm, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 29 Sep 2022 20:52:43 +0000

Someone has recently created a large number of fake LinkedIn profiles for Chief Information Security Officer (CISO) roles at some of the world’s largest corporations. It’s not clear who’s behind this network of fake CISOs or what their intentions may be. But the fabricated LinkedIn identities are confusing search engine results for CISO roles at major companies, and they are being indexed as gospel by various downstream data-scraping sources.

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Violence-as-a-Service: Brickings, Firebombings & Shootings for Hire

September 4, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, bricking, firebombing, molotov cocktail, Ne'er-Do-Well News, patrick mcgovern-allen, SIM swapping, SWATting, tongue, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2022 14:59:13 +0000

A 21-year-old New Jersey man has been arrested and charged with stalking in connection with a federal investigation into groups of cybercriminals who are settling scores by hiring people to carry out physical attacks on their rivals. Prosecutors say the defendant recently participated in several of these schemes — including firing a handgun into a Pennsylvania home and torching a residence in another part of the state with a Molotov Cocktail.

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How 1-Time Passcodes Became a Corporate Liability

August 30, 2022 0 Comments 0ktapus, christopher knauer, CloudFlare, Data Breaches, digitalocean, doordash, group-ib, klaviyo, mailchimp, matthew prince, security keys, security tools, signal, sitel group, T-Mobile, teleperformance, twilio, twitter, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 30 Aug 2022 14:53:39 +0000

Phishers are enjoying remarkable success using text messages to steal remote access credentials and one-time passcodes from employees at some of the world’s largest technology companies and customer support firms. A recent spate of SMS phishing attacks from one cybercriminal group has spawned a flurry of breach disclosures from affected companies, which are all struggling to combat the same lingering security threat: The ability of scammers to interact directly with employees through their mobile devices.

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PayPal Phishing Scam Uses Invoices Sent Via PayPal

August 18, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, Latest Warnings, Paypal, paypal business, paypayl invoice scam, Web Fraud 2.0, zelle fraud scam

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 18 Aug 2022 15:27:53 +0000

Scammers are using invoices sent through PayPal.com to trick recipients into calling a number to dispute a pending charge. The missives — which come from Paypal.com and include a link at Paypal.com that displays an invoice for the supposed transaction — state that the user’s account is about to be charged hundreds of dollars. Recipients who call the supplied toll-free number to contest the transaction are soon asked to download software that lets the scammers assume remote control over their computer.

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When Efforts to Contain a Data Breach Backfire

August 16, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, banorte breach, cloudsecurityalliance, cti league, Data Breaches, group-ib, kurt seifried, ohad zaidenberg, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 16 Aug 2022 17:06:00 +0000

Earlier this month, the administrator of the cybercrime forum Breached received a cease-and-desist letter from a cybersecurity firm. The missive alleged that an auction on the site for data stolen from 10 million customers of Mexico’s second-largest bank was fake news and harming the bank’s reputation. The administrator responded to this empty threat by purchasing the stolen banking data and leaking it on the forum for everyone to download.

Independent Krebs Security

Scammers Sent Uber to Take Elderly Lady to the Bank

August 4, 2022 0 Comments elder scams, email scam, FBI, Latest Warnings, The Coming Storm, travis hardaway, uber, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 04 Aug 2022 15:41:09 +0000

Email scammers sent an Uber to the home of an 80-year-old woman who responded to a well-timed email scam, in a bid to make sure she went to the bank and wired money to the fraudsters. In this case, the woman figured out she was being scammed before embarking for the bank, but her story is a chilling reminder of how far crooks will go these days to rip people off.

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No SOCKS, No Shoes, No Malware Proxy Services!

August 2, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, alexandr smolyaninov, angry coders, Breadcrumbs, dmitry chepurko, ip-score, kc-shoes, michdomain@gmail.com, oleg iskushnykh, socks proxy, socksescort, The Coming Storm, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 02 Aug 2022 19:31:35 +0000

With the recent demise of several popular “proxy” services that let cybercriminals route their malicious traffic through hacked PCs, there is now something of a supply chain crisis gripping the underbelly of the Internet. Compounding the problem, several remaining malware-based proxy services have chosen to block new registrations to avoid swamping their networks with a sudden influx of customers.