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Google Alerts continues to be a hotbed of scams and malware that threat actors are increasingly abusing to promote malicious websites. While Google Alerts has been abused for a long time, BleepingComputer has noticed a significant increase in activity over the past couple of weeks.
The former systems administrator for the FIN7 card-slurping gang has been sentenced to 10 years in a US prison. Fedir Hladyr, 35, pled guilty to one count of conspiracy to commit wire fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit computer hacking last year, and on Friday was sentenced for his role in the theft and resale of over than 20 million customer card records from over 6,500 point-of-sale terminals across the US using the malware dubbed Carbanak.
With the United State tax season in high gear, threat actors have sprung into action with a recent tax document phishing scam that abuses TypeForm forms to steal your login credentials. In a new report by email security firm ArmorBlox, researchers outline one such phishing scam that aims to take advantage of the 2021 tax season by pretending to be a W-2 tax document shared via Microsoft OneDrive.
A newspaper in Malaysia is reporting on a cell phone cloning scam. The scammer convinces the victim to lend them their cell phone, and the scammer quickly clones it.
Attackers have targeted customers of stock-trading broker Robinhood with a phishing campaign aimed to steal their credentials and spread malware using fake tax documents, the company has warned. Robinhood, which aims to make it easy for people to trade stocks online but has faced a number of regulatory and legal challenges along the way, sent an email to customers Thursday warning of a phishing scam "That may have reached some of our customers."
A massive phishing campaign reaching tens of thousands of inboxes impersonated the MacKenzie Bezos-Scott grant foundation promising financial benefits to recipients in exchange of a processing fee. Unlike that version of the scam this campaign benefited by wide distribution and took advantage of the charitable acts last year from author MacKenzie Scott, once married to Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.
The IRS is warning of a phishing scam that promises refund information but looks to capture Social Security numbers and other sensitive data. With tax season in bloom, cybercriminals have launched a series of phishing attacks aimed at university students and employees eager to receive potential tax refunds.
Cybercriminals are using phishing emails on tax filers to scam them out of money. Be careful which emails you click on.
The findings of a Bolster report, along with real life examples, clearly correlate the rise in crypto scams to the value and popularity of cryptocurrencies as well as the increase in individuals seeking financial assistance during the COVID-19 pandemic. With more than 400,000 crypto scams created in 2020, there was a 40 percent increase compared to 2019.
Crypto scams are on the rise due to the growing popularity of cryptocurrencies and the number of people in need of financial assistance during COVID-19, says Bolster. Fully aware of this transition, cybercriminals are targeting more people and organizations with cryptocurrency scams.