A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew

Besieged by scammers seeking to phish user accounts over the telephone, Apple and Google frequently caution that they will never reach out unbidden to users this way. However, new details about the internal operations of a prolific voice phishing gang show the group routinely abuses legitimate services at Apple and Google to force a variety of outbound communications to their users, including emails, automated phone calls and system-level messages sent to all signed-in devices. Continue reading A Day in the Life of a Prolific Voice Phishing Crew

How to Lose a Fortune with Just One Bad Click

Adam Griffin is still in disbelief over how quickly he was robbed of nearly $500,000 in cryptocurrencies. A scammer called using a real Google phone number to warn his Gmail account was being hacked, sent email security alerts directly from google.com, and ultimately seized control over the account by convincing him to click “yes” to a Google prompt on his mobile device. Continue reading How to Lose a Fortune with Just One Bad Click

Appeals court tosses sanctions on Tornado Cash crypto mixer

The mixer was sanctioned after a North Korea hacking group used the software to launder more than $455 million.

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Here’s Some Bitcoin: Oh, and You’ve Been Served!

A California man who lost $100,000 in a 2021 SIM-swapping attack is suing the unknown holder of a cryptocurrency wallet that harbors his stolen funds. The case is thought to be the first in which a federal court has recognized… Read More » Continue reading Here’s Some Bitcoin: Oh, and You’ve Been Served!

Two dozen arrested, hundreds of malicious IPs taken down in African cybercrime operation

The cybercrime and fraud operations, including fraudulent art sales, were linked to financial losses of more than $40 million.

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