Collaborate Disseminate
If you are one of the thousands of people who fraudulently filed for a Paycheck Protection Program or PPP Loan under the CARES Act, pay attention! This blog post is going to explain why you should return the money and turn yourself in. The CARES Ac… Continue reading PPP Fraud or How to Use the CARES Act to Go To Prison
Have you ever seen those spam messages claiming they have a great job for you as a Mystery Shopper? After seizing a check from a client (and then shredding it) a local bank let us check out the scam! In this scam, a company claiming to be “Private M… Continue reading Mystery Shoppers Challenge Gift Card Warnings
Yesterday we were reviewing a Work From Home “Mystery Shopper” scam, and ended by pointing out some of the scam shipping companies hosted on the same IP address. But still on our same IP address, we hit a gold mine! The complete Romance Scam with an… Continue reading The Complete Soldier Romance Scam Support Site
This week law enforcement agencies around the world made press releases about the arrest of SIM Swapping criminals. The UK’s National Crime Agency says “eight men have been arrested in England and Scotland as part of an investigation into a series of… Continue reading Phone Company Insiders Helped Global Sim-Swapping Gang Steal Millions in Cryptocurrency
An Interpol headline on November 25, 2020 announces “Three arrested as INTERPOL, Group-IB and the Nigeria Police Force disrupt prolific cybercrime group” however the article does not name the suspects. The Interpol article says the three are “believe… Continue reading Major Nigerian Phishing and BEC Actors, SSGToolz and CeeCeeBossTMT, Arrested by Nigerian Police and Interpol
ENISA’s Top 15 Threats report starts with this summary document:
https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/enisa-threat-landscape-2020-list-of-top-15-threats <= Flipbook
https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/enisa-threat-landscape-2020-list-of… Continue reading ENISA: Top 15 Threats: Spam, Phishing, and Malware!
ENISA, the European Union Agency for CyberSecurity, met on October 6, 2020 to review their current recommendations and get any last minute changes. On October 20, 2020, they released a huge batch of reports that many folks seem to have not seen. We … Continue reading The ENISA Cybersecurity Threat Landscape
On November 6, 2020, the US Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia announced the sentence for a husband and wife, Chirag Choksi and Shachi Majmudar, both 36 years old. This pair had involved themselves in the money laundering side of an interna… Continue reading US Victims of Indian Call Center Scams Send Cash to Money Mules Across the Country
While shutting down the technical aspects of malware is critical (see Trickbot on the Ropes Part 1), the real disincentive to the criminals is when you hit them hard in the money. That was the objective of Europol’s Operation 2BaGoldMule case against … Continue reading Trickbot on the Ropes Part 2: The QQAAZZ Money Laundering Ring
Trickbot is having a truly bad time this month! While as of today, Trickbot binaries are being delivered by Emotet, there is every sign that they are struggling. Emotet’s daily activities are best documented by a team of researchers using the colle… Continue reading Trickbot On The Ropes: Microsoft’s Case Against Trickbot