Although phishing emails are not new or the only method of using social engineering, they work well and are almost always applicable. But every detail obtained at the OSINT stage is important for success, starting from the email addresses themselves and ending with the style of corporate...
The criminals built a makeshift antenna for a large-scale campaign, but somewhere they miscalculated...
British law enforcement officers have managed to uncover an unprecedented Internet fraud scheme in which attackers used a makeshift phone tower for a massive phishing operation. Two suspects...
Investigators and cyber police found that the criminal scheme to gain access to bank accounts of citizens was implemented by young men aged 16 and 17 years. To do this, they used phishing links that were distributed in social network chats.
Among those deceived are residents of different...
A new phishing kit allows you to steal your account unnoticed using modern methods.
Resecurity specialists have discovered a new V3B phishing kit that targets customers of European banks.
According to a report from Resecurity, a group of cybercriminals are selling the V3B phishing kit via...
Atropos.ai researchers were able to gain access to the internal database of the Estate platform, which entered the market of robotic phishing campaigns in mid-2023. As TechCrunch reports, the service allows for SIM spoofing attacks, and thousands of people could become its victims.
“Estate...
Who are the workers and how do they cheat on trading platforms?
Fraud on message boards and trading platforms has become a serious problem due to the emergence of organized criminal groups. They work on the Fraud-as-a-Service model, constantly improving schemes for stealing money and personal...
How did hundreds of Internet users manage to download a Trojan browser instead of a legitimate one?
A new campaign to distribute malware through the Google Ads advertising platform coincided with the launch of the Arc web browser for Windows, which led to the infection of many users with Trojan...
Phishing is a scam in which cybercriminals attempt to gain access to your sensitive information, such as passwords, credit card numbers, or social security numbers, by impersonating a legitimate sender.
In other words, phishing is a copy of a valid website or app.
What kind of phishing site is...
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The attackers targeted the entire globe, without any exceptions.
Since April of this year, millions of phishing emails have been sent through the Phorpiex botnet as part of a large-scale campaign using the LockBit Black ransomware. The New Jersey Cybersecurity and Communications Integration...
Vaccination, tourism, cryptocurrency investments, major sports events, movie news, and subscriptions to popular services are among the top topics that are most actively exploited in phishing attacks according to Positive Technologies. You can find out which cyber fraud schemes have become the...
How holidays and trustfulness of citizens affect the activity of scammers.
Despite an extensive information campaign and warnings, fraudulent schemes that mimic the services of the postal service continue to operate successfully. Akamai found a significant increase in the activity of such...
The Prosecutor General's Office has sent a criminal case to the court against six Homel residents who were charged with embezzlement of property by modifying computer information as part of an organized group, BelTA has learned from the Department for Media Relations and Editorial Activities of...
How did the invoice go viral and why did emails become so dangerous?
According to Trustwave SpiderLabs, a new phishing campaign has hit Latin America, during which Windows systems are infected with viruses through emails.
The attack chain starts with sending out emails with a ZIP file...
The new standards are designed to strengthen protection against spam and phishing.
Google is taking new steps to strengthen the protection of Gmail users from spam and phishing attacks, tightening requirements for senders of mass mailings.
Recently, the company has started automatically...
A nineteen-year-old resident of Lviv, who fraudulently lured out more than 100 thousand hryvnias from citizens, was exposed by operatives of the Department for Countering Cybercrime in the Lviv region, joint investigators of the Police Department No. 1 of the Lviv District Police Department No...
Now it is established about the losses caused to citizens in the amount of almost 119 thousand UAH. Investigators informed the defendants about the suspicion. They face up to 8 years in prison.
The illegal activity was stopped by employees of the Department of Countering Cybercrime in the...
RCS messages - a new loophole for attacks on Android and iPhone users.
Netcraft has discovered a new phishing service called Darcula, which uses more than 20,000 domains to mimic popular brands and steal the credentials of Android and iPhone users in more than 100 countries.
The PHAAS service...
Properly written emails allowed hackers to deploy their tools.
IBM X-Force reports on a series of phishing campaigns by the ITG05 group, during which fake documents are sent on behalf of government and non-governmental organizations in Europe, Transcaucasia, Central Asia, and North and South...