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Investment fraud overtakes business email compromise as most reported fraud

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Categories: Scams

Tags: FBI

Tags: IC3

Tags: 2022

Tags: report

Tags: investment fraud

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Tags: pig butchering

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According to the FBI’s annual report, investment fraud overtook business email compromise as the most reported and most damaging type of fraud in 2022.

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Who’s Behind the NetWire Remote Access Trojan?

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Thu, 09 Mar 2023 18:52:25 +0000

A Croatian national has been arrested for allegedly operating NetWire, a Remote Access Trojan (RAT) marketed on cybercrime forums since 2012 as a stealthy way to spy on infected systems and siphon passwords. The arrest coincided with a seizure of the NetWire sales website by the U.S. Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). While the defendant in this case hasn’t yet been named publicly, the NetWire website has been leaking information about the likely true identity and location of its owner for the past 11 years.

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DoppelPaymer ransomware group disrupted by FBI and European police agencies

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Categories: Ransomware

Tags: Europol

Tags: FBI

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Tags: arrests

Tags: DoppelPaymer

Tags: Emotet

Tags: Dridex

In cooperation with the FBI, European police agencies have made arrests that disrupt the DoppelPaymer ransomware operation

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ION starts bringing customers back online after LockBit ransomware attack

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Categories: Ransomware

Tags: LockBit

Tags: ransomware

Tags: LockBit ransomware group

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Tags: Todd Conklin

Tags: Financial Conduct Authority

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Tags: Prudential Regulation Authority

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Tags: Tom Kellermann

Tags: Joseph Schifano

Pernicious ransomware group, LockBit, is making headlines again. Less than a month after attacking HACLA, it hit the derivatives trading division of ION Group, a financial software company.

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Hive! Hive! Hive! Ransomware site submerged by FBI

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Categories: Ransomware

Tags: DoJ

Tags: FBI

Tags: Europol

Tags: HIve

Tags: ransomware

Tags: RDP

Tags: Patch management

Tags: Vulnerability

Tags: phishing

The DoJ, FBI, and Europol have released details about a months-long international disruption campaign against the Hive ransomware group

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