The incoming phone call flashes on a victim’s phone. It may only last a few seconds, but can end with the victim handing over codes that give cybercriminals the ability to hijack their online accounts or drain their crypto and digital wallets.
“This is the PayPal security team here. We’ve detected some unusual activity on your account and are calling you as a precautionary measure,” the caller’s robotic voice says. “Please enter the six-digit security code that we’ve sent to your mobile device.”
More than 800,000 people in Europe and the US appear to have been duped into sharing card details and other sensitive personal data with a vast network of fake online designer shops apparently operated from China.
Our researchers found fake sponsored search results that lead consumers to a typical fake Microsoft alert site set up by tech support scammers.
Operation PANDORA started with a bank teller in Freiburg, Germany. When in December 2023 a customer asked to withdraw over EUR 100 000 in cash, the bank teller grew suspicious and quickly learned the customer had fallen victim to a ‘fake police officer scam’. He informed the real police, which prevented the victim from handing the money over to the...
CryptoChameleon attackers trade quantity for quality, dedicating time and resources to trick even the most diligent into handing over their high-value credentials.
Developing: Someone claiming to be an “affiliate plus” for AlphV claims they were responsible for the Change Healthcare attack but that AlphV stole the payment Change Healthcare had made and suspended the affiliate’s account.
The affiliate’s claims appeared on Ramp Forum and have been circulating since then. The post can be seen below, via @vx-underground:
Learn how the threat actor Savvy Seahorse Facebook ads to lure users to fake investment platforms and leverages DNS to allow their attacks to persist for years.
A finance worker at a multinational firm was tricked into paying out $25 million to fraudsters using deepfake technology to pose as the company’s chief financial officer in a video conference call, according to Hong Kong police.
NCSC says generative AI tools will soon allow amateur cybercriminals to launch sophisticated phishing attacks
The official Netgear and Hyundai MEA Twitter/X accounts (together with over 160,000 followers) are the latest hijacked to push scams designed to infect potential victims with cryptocurrency wallet drainer malware.
Hackers are increasingly targeting verified accounts on X (formerly Twitter) belonging to government and business profiles and marked with 'gold' and 'grey' checkmarks to promote cryptocurrency scams, phishing sites, and sites with crypto drainers.
Rail firm TransPennine Express has since removed QR codes from all of its station car parks.
Help desk staff duped into resetting MFA on Okta super admin accounts, allowing threat actors to move laterally across targeted organizations.
A legitimate-looking ad for Amazon in Google search results redirects visitors to a Microsoft Defender tech support scam that locks up their browser.
Interest in OpenAI’s latest version of its interactive language model has spurred a new wave of scam apps looking to cash in on the hype
Fake hardware cryptowallet, and how bitcoins were stolen from it.
We’ve seen spam campaigns in the open-source ecosystems in the past year, but this month was by far the worst one we’ve seen yet. Apparently, attackers found the unvetted open-source ecosystems as an…
Attackers are distributing malware disguised as a ChatGPT desktop client for Windows offering “precreated accounts”
A recent cryptocurrency scam has highlighted a need for fraud awareness. The new scam - called “pig butchering” - includes a sophisticated new twist that combines a romance scam with an investment spin. According to the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), the term “pig butchering” refers to a time-tested, heavily scripted, and contact intensive process to fatten up the prey before slaughter.
Years-old domains, compromised JS libraries and worldwide-localized content among tactics of this sophisticated attacker.
