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For months now, millions of Facebook users have been duped by the same phishing scam that cons users into handing over their account credentials. According to a report outlining the phishing campaign, the scam is still active and continues to push victims to a fake Facebook login page where victims are enticed to submit their Facebook credentials.
There's no such thing as free beer for Father's Day - at least not from Heineken. "This is a scam and is not sanctioned by Heineken," the beermaker said in a tweet, adding it has alerted the UK's national fraud and cybercrime reporting agency.
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission says Americans have reported losing more than $1 billion worth of cryptocurrency to scams between January 2021 and March 2022. The U.S. law enforcement agency said that tens of thousands of reports pointed to over $1.6 billion in cryptocurrency losses.
A crew using malware that performs cryptomining and clipboard-hacking operations have made off with at least $1.7 million in stolen cryptocurrency. They also observed that there are several design similarities between Clipminer and KryptoCibule - another cryptomining trojan that, a few months before Clipminer hit the scene, was detected and written about by ESET analysts.
The scam industry is becoming more structured and involves more and more parties divided into hierarchical groups, according to Group-IB. The number of such groups jumped to a record high of 390, which is 3.5 times more than last year, when the maximum number of active groups was close to 110. Due to Scam-as-a-Service, in 2021 the number of cybercriminals in one scam gang increased 10 times compared to 2020 and now reaches 100.
Due to SaaS, in 2021 the number of cybercriminals in one scam gang increased 10 times compared to 2020 and now reaches 100. In 2021, scams were the most common type of cybercrime.
Home delivery scams, where the crooks falsely apologise to you for not delivering your latest parcel, have been around for years. As we have unfortunately needed to say many times on Naked Security, these scams seem to have become steadlily more professional-looking during the pandemic, as more and more people have got into the habit of ordering deliveries for everyday shopping instead of heading into stores.
Truecaller announced a research conducted in partnership with The Harris Poll in March of 2022, and the findings detail trends/insights on the impact of spam and phone scams that have increasingly permeated the U.S. over the last 12 months. The study estimates that a staggering $39.5 billion was lost to phone scams this past year, which is the highest number recorded since Truecaller began researching scam and spam calls in the U.S. eight years ago.
Scammers are now leveraging dating apps like Tinder and Grindr to pose themselves as former victims of physical abuse to gain your trust and sympathy and sell you bogus "ID verification" services. BleepingComputer came across multiple instances of users on online dating apps being approached by catfishing profiles who ask these users to prove that they are not a former sex offender by buying these services.
Cryptocurrency scammers are using deep fake videos of Elon Musk and other prominent cryptocurrency advocates to promote a BitVex trading platform scam that steals deposited currency. An example of one of the scam videos can be seen below, where Elon promotes the new scam site and says he invested $50 million into the platform.