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Mobile Phishers Target Brokerage Accounts in ‘Ramp and Dump’ Cashout Scheme

August 15, 2025 0 Comments @chenlun, A Little Sunshine, csis security group, FBI, financial industry regulatory authority, finra, ford merrill, Ne'er-Do-Well News, outsider, pump and dump, ramp and dump, schwab, secalliance, The Coming Storm, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 15 Aug 2025 18:27:05 +0000

Cybercriminal groups peddling sophisticated phishing kits that convert stolen card data into mobile wallets have recently shifted their focus to targeting customers of brokerage services, new research shows. Undeterred by security controls at these trading platforms that block users from wiring funds directly out of accounts, the phishers have pivoted to using multiple compromised brokerage accounts in unison to manipulate the prices of foreign stocks.

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Chinese Innovations Spawn Wave of Toll Phishing Via SMS

January 16, 2025 0 Comments @chenlun, A Little Sunshine, csis security group, ezdrivema, FBI, ford merrill, IC3, imessage, Latest Warnings, lighthouse, massdot, north texas toll authority, rcs, secalliance, smishing, sms phishing, sunpass, the toll roads, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 16 Jan 2025 21:18:48 +0000

Residents across the United States are being inundated with text messages purporting to come from toll road operators like E-ZPass, warning that recipients face fines if a delinquent toll fee remains unpaid. Researchers say the surge in SMS spam coincides with new features added to a popular commercial phishing kit sold in China that makes it simple to set up convincing lures spoofing toll road operators in multiple U.S. states.

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Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz

December 3, 2024 0 Comments @chenlun, A Little Sunshine, and mobile anti-abuse working group, Anti-Phishing Working Group, coalition against unsolicited commercial email, icann, interisle consulting, internet corporation for assigned names and numbers, john levine, Latest Warnings, malware, messaging, new gtlds, phishing, Spam, The Coming Storm, u.s. postal service

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 03 Dec 2024 13:27:31 +0000

Phishing attacks increased nearly 40 percent in the year ending August 2024, with much of that growth concentrated at a small number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) — such as .shop, .top, .xyz — that attract scammers with rock-bottom prices and no meaningful registration requirements, new research finds. Meanwhile, the nonprofit entity that oversees the domain name industry is moving forward with plans to introduce a slew of new gTLDs.