Web Fraud 2.0 – PossibleThreat Articles

Scammers Unleash Flood of Slick Online Gaming Sites

July 30, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, b-ball blitz, beast games, discord, Latest Warnings, mr. beast, scambling, silent push, thereallo, Web Fraud 2.0, zach edwards

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 30 Jul 2025 18:46:34 +0000

Fraudsters are flooding Discord and other social media platforms with ads for hundreds of polished online gaming and wagering websites that lure people with free credits and eventually abscond with any cryptocurrency funds deposited by players. Here’s a closer look at the social engineering tactics and remarkable traits of this sprawling network of more than 1,200 scam sites.

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Big Tech’s Mixed Response to U.S. Treasury Sanctions

July 25, 2025 0 Comments @nicelizhi, A Little Sunshine, facebook, funnull technology inc., github, gmail, hotmail, Latest Warnings, LinkedIn, liu "steve" lizhi, mark rasch, Ne'er-Do-Well News, nexamerchant, nice lizhi, Paypal, twitter, unit 221b, Web Fraud 2.0, xxl4, youtube, zach edwards

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 03 Jul 2025 16:06:05 +0000

In May 2025, the U.S. government sanctioned a Chinese national for operating a cloud provider linked to the majority of virtual currency investment scam websites reported to the FBI. But more than a month later, the accused continues to openly operate accounts at a slew of American tech companies, including Facebook, Github, LinkedIn, PayPal and Twitter/X.

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Inside a Dark Adtech Empire Fed by Fake CAPTCHAs

July 25, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, adspro, aimed global, bropush, bytecore ag, dollyway, doppelganger, godaddy, help tds, holacode, infoblox, lospollos, Ne'er-Do-Well News, partners house, qurium, renee burton, rexads, richads, skyforge digital ag, smartlinks, spamshield, tacoloco, teknology sa, vextrio, Web Fraud 2.0, Wordpress

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 12 Jun 2025 22:14:00 +0000

Late last year, security researchers made a startling discovery: Kremlin-backed disinformation campaigns were bypassing moderation on social media platforms by leveraging the same malicious advertising technology that powers a sprawling ecosystem of online hucksters and website hackers. A new report on the fallout from that investigation finds this dark ad tech industry is far more resilient and incestuous than previously known.

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How Phished Data Turns into Apple & Google Wallets

February 28, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, All About Skimmers, andy chandler, Apple, csis security group, ford merrill, ghost tap, Google, grant smith, imessage, m3aawg, rcs, resecurity, secalliance, smishing, The Coming Storm, threatfabric, Web Fraud 2.0, znfc

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 18 Feb 2025 18:37:26 +0000

Carding — the underground business of stealing, selling and swiping stolen payment card data — has long been the dominion of Russia-based hackers. Happily, the broad deployment of more secure chip-based payment cards in the United States has weakened the carding market. But a flurry of innovation from cybercrime groups in China is breathing new life into the carding industry, by turning phished card data into mobile wallets that can be used online and at main street stores.

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Infrastructure Laundering: Blending in with the Cloud

January 30, 2025 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, acb group, amazon aws, anjie cdn, crowell & moring llp, fangneng cdn, funnull, infrastructure laundering, Microsoft Azure, Ne'er-Do-Well News, netscout, noname057(16), polyfill, richard hummel, silent push, suncity group, Time to Patch, u.s. department of commerce, Web Fraud 2.0, zach edwards

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 30 Jan 2025 17:10:08 +0000

In an effort to blend in and make their malicious traffic tougher to block, hosting firms catering to cybercriminals in China and Russia increasingly are funneling their operations through major U.S. cloud providers. Research published this week on one such outfit — a sprawling network tied to Chinese organized crime gangs and aptly named “Funnull” — highlights a persistent whac-a-mole problem facing cloud services.

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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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A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew

January 7, 2025 0 Comments 800-275-2273, A Little Sunshine, allison nixon, aristotle, autodoxers, Coinbase, crypto chameleon, discord, domaintools, Latest Warnings, lookout, mark cuban, okta, perm, shark tank, star fraud, stotle, telegram, The Coming Storm, trezor, unit 221b, voice phishing, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 07 Jan 2025 23:41:53 +0000

Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. However, new details about the internal operations of a prolific voice phishing gang show the group routinely abuses legitimate services at Apple and Google to force a variety of outbound communications to their users, including emails, automated phone calls and system-level messages sent to all signed-in devices.

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How to Lose a Fortune with Just One Bad Click

December 18, 2024 0 Comments (650) 203-0000, A Little Sunshine, Coinbase, daniel from google, gemini ai, Google Assistant, google docs, google forms, google photos, graham cluely, junseth, Latest Warnings, minecraft, Ne'er-Do-Well News, swancoin, trezor, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 18 Dec 2024 13:17:59 +0000

Adam Griffin is still in disbelief over how quickly he was robbed of nearly $500,000 in cryptocurrencies. A scammer called using a real Google phone number to warn his Gmail account was being hacked, sent email security alerts directly from google.com, and ultimately seized control over the account by convincing him to click “yes” to a Google prompt on his mobile device.

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How Cryptocurrency Turns to Cash in Russian Banks

December 11, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, Binance, blaven technologies, Breadcrumbs, chainalysis, CloudFlare, cryptomus, ctv news, fintrac, icon tech sro, investigative journalism foundation, mezhundarondnaya ibu sro, peter german, pq hosting, rcmp, richard sanders, russia's war on ukraine, vira krychka, Web Fraud 2.0, ws management and advisory corporation ltd, xeltox enterprises

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2024 21:38:48 +0000

A financial firm registered in Canada has emerged as the payment processor for dozens of Russian cryptocurrency exchanges and websites hawking cybercrime services aimed at Russian-speaking customers, new research finds. Meanwhile, an investigation into the Vancouver street address used by this company shows it is home to dozens of foreign currency dealers, money transfer businesses, and cryptocurrency exchanges — none of which are physically located there.

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FBI: Spike in Hacked Police Emails, Fake Subpoenas

November 9, 2024 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, emergency data request, fake edr, FBI, kodex, Latest Warnings, matt donahue, pwnstar, The Coming Storm, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Sat, 09 Nov 2024 19:20:26 +0000

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) is urging police departments and governments worldwide to beef up security around their email systems, citing a recent increase in cybercriminal services that use hacked police email accounts to send unauthorized subpoenas and customer data requests to U.S.-based technology companies.

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