Collaborate Disseminate
While the legal status of cryptocurrencies and laws to regulate them continue to be hammered out, scammers are busy exploiting the digital gold rush. Besides hacking cryptocurrency exchanges, exploiting smart-contract vulnerabilities, and deploying malicious miners, cybercriminals are also resorting to more traditional social-engineering methods that can reap millions of dollars. Continue reading In cryptoland, trust can be costly
There are only two weeks to go before the start of the massive soccer event — FIFA World Cup. This championship has already attracted the attention of millions worldwide, including a fair few cybercriminals. Long before kick-off, email accounts began bulging with soccer-related spam, and scammers started exploiting the topic in mailings and creating World Cup-themed phishing pages. Continue reading 2018 Fraud World Cup
In late 2017, information appeared on specialized resources about a Telegram ICO to finance the launch of its own blockchain platform. The lack of information provided fertile ground for scammers: the rumors prompted mailshots seemingly from official representatives of the platform, inviting people to take part in the ICO and purchase tokens. Continue reading Tens of thousands per Gram
Every year, vast numbers of people around the globe relish the delightful prospect of filling out tax returns, applying for tax refunds, etc. Given that tax authorities and their taxpayers are moving online, it’s no surprise to find cybercriminals hard on their heels. Continue reading Tax refund, or How to lose your remaining cash
It often happens that inventions and technologies that start out good end up turning into dangerous tools in the hands of criminals. Blockchain is no exception to this rule, especially in its most common cryptocurrency incarnation. The attacks targeted employees of small companies, but such emails could be sent to any user’s personal mail. Continue reading Every little bitcoin helps
On Monday, Jan 29th, IRS officially opened its 2018 season. Right after two days of the opening, we got phishing messages with a fake refund status websites. Continue reading Cybercriminals target early IRS 2018 refunds now
The next in today’s never ending series of Locky downloaders is an email with the subject of SCAN coming from logistics@ random companies, names and email addresses with a random named zip attachment starting with SCAN _ todays date containing a WSF file … Continue reading →
Another day and yet another load of malspam emails in the never ending series of Locky downloaders with an email with the subject of financial report coming as usual from random companies, names and email addresses with a random named zip … Continue reading →
Yet another malspam in the never ending series of Locky downloaders is an email with the subject of Renewed License coming as usual from random companies, names and email addresses with a random named zip attachment containing 2 identical .WSF files … Continue reading →
The next in the never ending series of Locky downloaders is an email with the subject of Delivery Confirmation: 00336499 [ random numbers] coming as usual from ship-confirm@ random companies, names and email addresses with a random named zip attachment containing a .JS … Continue reading →