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Amazon third party sellers: A new threat

April 14, 2017 admin Amazon, cybercrime, fraud, leak, Password, privacy, SCAM, two-factor authentication, Wall Street Journal, WSJ

Credit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2017 15:00:06 +0000

On Monday, the Wall Street Journal reported a wave of hijacked Amazon seller accounts that proceeded to fleece buyers for large sums of money. As reported here, attackers would use credentials harvested from other breaches to take over the account, then either simply redirect funds to their own deposit account or create lots of fake…

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Why Scammers Want Your Tax Returns (and how to stop them)

April 13, 2017 admin cybercrime, Data Privacy, Security

Credit to Author: Jon Clay| Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 12:00:02 +0000

It’s almost here – April 18, tax day in the U.S. As businesses and employees prepare their tax returns, cybercriminals are once again ramping up efforts to steal this information, and they are getting more intelligent every year. How it works Business Email Compromise (BEC) scams have been on the rise since 2016, and…

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Report: Cybercrime climate shifts dramatically in first quarter

April 13, 2017 admin Adware, Android malware, celebgate, Cerber, Chris Boyd, cybercrime, cybercrime tactics and techniques, dridex, eitest, exit scam, exploit kit, fappening, Findzip, hiddenads.lck, hoeflertext, intra market fraud, jisut, Locky, mac malware, malspam, malware, Malwarebytes, malwarebytes labs, necurs, potentially unwanted programs, Powershell, PUP, Q1 2017, ransomware, RIG exploit kit, sage, Social engineering, spora, survey scams, tech support scammers, Threat analysis, vault 7, windows malware, WWE dump

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Thu, 13 Apr 2017 09:00:09 +0000

The first quarter of 2017 brought with it some significant changes to the threat landscape and we aren’t talking about heavy ransomware distribution either. Threats which were previously believed to be serious contenders this year have nearly vanished entirely, while new threats and infection techniques have forced the security community to reconsider collection and analysis efforts.

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What is a Zero-Day?

April 12, 2017 admin cybercrime, malware, Zero day exploit, zero hour malware, Zero-Day

Credit to Author: Scott Wilson| Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2017 15:00:03 +0000

You have probably heard the term zero-day or zero-hour malware, but what exactly does it mean?

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GameStop customer data allegedly siphoned in possible breach

April 10, 2017 admin breach, card fraud, cybercrime, fraud, gamestop, gamestop breach, hacking, malware

Credit to Author: Malwarebytes Labs| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 22:05:31 +0000

GameStop confirmed with KrebsOnSecurity that they are currently investigating reports of hackers breaching their network and siphoning customer information.

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ShadowBrokers fails to collect 1M bitcoins – releases stolen information

April 10, 2017 admin cybercrime, Equation Group, Exploits, hack, hacking, NSA, opsec, president trump, ShadowBrokers

Credit to Author: Adam McNeil| Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2017 17:49:20 +0000

ShadowBrokers finally made good on their promise to release the decryption key to unlock the stolen ‘auction’ file purportedly filled with NSA hacking tools.

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The top 5 dumbest cyber threats that work anyway

April 8, 2017 admin Business Email Compromise, cyber attack, cyber threats, cybercrime, ddos, hacking, malware, ransomware, SCAM, Social engineering, sql

Credit to Author: William Tsing| Date: Sat, 08 Apr 2017 15:00:23 +0000

The common conception of cyber attacks is kind of like bad weather: ranging from irritating to catastrophic, but always unpredictable. Hackers are simply too sophisticated to draw any reliable judgments on and we shouldn’t try. As it turns out, some hackers are fairly predictable in their successful use of really dumb attacks.

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Steam spammers have a night at the movies

March 31, 2017 admin cybercrime, faker, IMDB, movie, phishing, Social engineering, spam, steam, survey, surveys, webcams

Credit to Author: Christopher Boyd| Date: Fri, 31 Mar 2017 15:00:17 +0000

We take a look at a spammer pushing what are claimed to be free movies on Steam’s videogame artwork section. Spoiler: they’re not movies, and you may want to get a refund for those tickets.

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