Web Fraud 2.0 – Page 8 – PossibleThreat Articles

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.

Independent Krebs Security

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.

Independent Krebs Security

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.

Independent Krebs Security

911 Proxy Service Implodes After Disclosing Breach

July 29, 2022 0 Comments 911, A Little Sunshine, Data Breaches, luxsocks, residential proxies, riley kilmer, spur.us, vip72, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2022 19:34:45 +0000

911[.]re, a proxy service that since 2015 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, announced this week that it is shutting down in the wake of a data breach that destroyed key components of its business operations. The abrupt closure comes ten days after KrebsOnSecurity published an in-depth look at 911 and its connections to shady pay-per-install affiliate programs that secretly bundled 911’s proxy software with other titles, including “free” utilities and pirated software.

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Massive Losses Define Epidemic of ‘Pig Butchering’

July 21, 2022 0 Comments A Little Sunshine, chainalysis, courtney nolan, employment fraud, erin west, FBI, ic3.gov, justin maile, Latest Warnings, pig butchering, react task force, The Coming Storm, vice news, Web Fraud 2.0, whatsapp, xtb-market

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2022 16:35:28 +0000

U.S. state and federal investigators are being inundated with reports from people who’ve lost hundreds of thousands or millions of dollars in connection with a complex investment scam known as “pig butchering,” wherein people are lured by flirtatious strangers online into investing in cryptocurrency trading platforms that eventually seize any funds when victims try to cash out.

Independent Krebs Security

A Deep Dive Into the Residential Proxy Service ‘911’

July 18, 2022 0 Comments 911, A Little Sunshine, international media ltd., Ne'er-Do-Well News, nicolae aurelian mazgarean, ppc leads srl, proxygate, residential proxy, riley kilmer, spur.us, university of sherbrooke, ustraffic@qq.com, vip72, Web Fraud 2.0, wugaa enterprises llc, yunhe wang

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Mon, 18 Jul 2022 16:11:12 +0000

For the past seven years, an online service known as 911 has sold access to hundreds of thousands of Microsoft Windows computers daily, allowing customers to route malicious traffic through PCs in virtually any country or city around the globe — but predominantly in the United States. The proxy service says its network is made up entirely of users who voluntarily install the proxy software. But new research shows 911 has a long history of purchasing installations via shady “pay-per-install” affiliate marketing schemes, some of which 911 operated on its own.