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Coronavirus Widens the Money Mule Pool

March 17, 2020 admin A Little Sunshine, alex holden, bitcoin atm scam, coronavirus scam, globalgiving, Hold Security, Holdsecurity.com, kevin conroy, Latest Warnings, vasty health care foundation, vastyhealthcarefoundation.com, Web Fraud 2.0

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Tue, 17 Mar 2020 22:11:46 +0000

With many people being laid off or working from home thanks to the Coronavirus pandemic, cybercrooks are almost certain to have more than their usual share of recruitable “money mules” — people who get roped into money laundering schemes under the pretense of a work-at-home job offer. Here’s the story of one upstart mule factory that spoofs a major nonprofit and tells new employees they’ll be collecting and transmitting donations for an international “Coronavirus Relief Fund.”

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2nd Breach at Verticalscope Impacts Millions

November 3, 2017 admin alex holden, Hold Security, Holdsecurity.com, LeakedSource, LuiDB, Other, Toyotanation, verticalscope breach, Verticalscope.com breach, Web Shell

Credit to Author: BrianKrebs| Date: Fri, 03 Nov 2017 22:00:26 +0000

For the second time in as many years, hackers have compromised Verticalscope.com, a Canadian company that manages hundreds of popular Web discussion forums totaling more than 45 million user accounts. Evidence of the breach was discovered just before someone began using that illicit access as a commercial for a new paid search service that indexes consumer information exposed in corporate data breaches.