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Crooks hacked other celebrity Instagram accounts to push scams

There is the same group behind the hack of the celebrity Instagram accounts, attackers used the same attack pattern to…

6 years ago

Internal Revenue Service warns taxpayers of a malware campaign

The Internal Revenue Service (IRS) is warning of an active IRS impersonation scam campaign sending spam emails to distribute malware.…

6 years ago

Lotsy group targets Italian and Spanish-speaking users

Group-IB discovered massive fraudulent campaigns carried out by Lotsy group involving the use of dozens of well-known brands aimed at…

6 years ago

‘Updates for Samsung’, the scam app with 10M+ downloads

Experts discovered a malicious app on Google Play, named Updates for Samsung, that was downloaded by over ten million users…

6 years ago

CIA sextortion campaign, analysis of a well-organized scam

Crooks are posing as CIA agents in a sextortion campaign, they are sending emails to inform the victims of an…

7 years ago

Google took down 2.3 billion bad ads in 2018,including 58.8M phishing ads

Google recently shared details about its efforts against malicious advertisement, the giant took down 2.3 billion bad ads last year.…

7 years ago

US-CERT warns of New Zealand mosque shooting scams and malware campaigns

In the wake of the New Zealand mosque shooting, the CISA recommends users to remain vigilant on possible scams and…

7 years ago

‘Aaron Smith’ Sextortion scam campaigns hit tens of thousands of individuals

Security experts from Cisco Talos have uncovered two recent sextortion scam campaigns that appear to leverage on the Necurs botnet…

7 years ago

Experts warns of a new extortion campaign based on the Breach Compilation archive

Cybaze ZLab spotted a new scam campaign that is targeting some of its Italian customers, crooks leverage credentials in Breach…

7 years ago

Tech Support Scams improved with adoption of Call Optimization Service

Security experts from Symantec are warning of tech support scams abusing Call Optimization Services to insert phone numbers. Crooks are improving…

7 years ago

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