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The prince is looking for ransomware smugglers
September 22, 2021
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The prince is looking for ransomware smugglers

In a recent campaign, cyber criminals are looking for potential accomplices who are willing to smuggle ransomware into their company for part of the ransom. The trail leads to the infamous “Nigerian Prince” in Africa. There are probably only a few people who have never found a message in their spam folder from a Nigerian prince who urgently needs to get a huge sum of money to safety and needs help. Alternatively, it can also be a tribal prince or an entrepreneur. This scam has been around for decades and is likely to most of the people written to ...

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Spam ranking: WhatsApp and package info are increasing
August 31, 2021
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Spam ranking: WhatsApp and package info are increasing

Cyber ​​criminals use WhatsApp and information about parcel deliveries to spread spam and phishing emails. There was a slight increase in spam emails in the second quarter of 2021. This is confirmed by a spam analysis by Kaspersky for Q2 / 2021. Since last year, cyber criminals have been taking advantage of delivery delays and outages to trick users into opening malicious email attachments and links. This trend continued in the second quarter of this year, but online scammers continued to develop their methods and became more adept and precise at sending spam emails with greater local relevance. They also made more use of current discussions ...

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Bitcoin scam campaigns on behalf of Elon Musk and Tesla
June 13, 2021
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Bitdefender_News

Bitdefender Labs warn of Bitcoin fraud campaigns on behalf of Elon Musk and Tesla. Cyber ​​scammers are taking advantage of the increased interest in cryptocurrencies. Cyber ​​criminals are always very creative. The experts at Bitdefender Labs have now come across a particularly brazen scam. In the name of Tesla CEO Elon Musk and under the pretext of giving away Bitcoins (BTC), tens of thousands of fraudulent emails were sent to Internet users as part of two campaigns. The first campaign is largely based on German IP addresses. Scam 1: Elon Musk gives you Bitcoin worth ...

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Online Trap: Pfizer Corona Vaccination Survey
30 May 2021
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Bitdefender_News

Bitdefender Labs Detect Fraud With Alleged Pfizer Corona Vaccination Survey. Investigating personal and account information and fraud. 23,36% of the attacks with an apparently German source. With the alleged sender Pfizer and under the pretext of conducting surveys on the subject of corona vaccines, fraudsters have stolen personal data and possibly money from more than 200.000 consumers since April. This is shown by data from Bitdefender telemetry. Worldwide spam campaign According to the Bitdefender analysis, the spammers rolled out the e-mail campaign in different regions. 69,98% of the users contacted are in the USA, 12,39% in Ireland, 3,40% in Sweden, 3,23% ...

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Spam & Phishing: Around every 6th email comes from Germany
19 May 2021
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Spam and phishing: Around every 6th email comes from Germany. The Kaspersky Report shows: Covid-19 topic is still popular as bait among cyber criminals around the world. In the past year, COVID-19-related spam emails and phishing sites have become one of the most profitable fraud opportunities for cyber criminals due to the publicity and explosiveness of the topic. Fraudsters continue to exploit this issue, especially in Germany. In the first quarter of this year, around 15 percent of spam attacks worldwide came from Germany, which was the second highest figure in the world last year. At the same time, the opening rate of malicious emails in Germany was ...

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Outlook appointments as a trap
5 May 2021
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Email addresses are verified by rejection - Outlook appointments as a trap. Currently, invitations to fake Outlook appointments are increasingly being sent. Anyone who reacts to this - replies, accepts or rejects - falls into the trap of data collectors who use this method to check whether e-mail addresses are active. There are currently more and more complaints about unwanted Outlook invitations to fake appointments. This is reported by the consumer advice center in Bremen. It is not necessarily obvious at first glance that it is spam. Hacked e-mail accounts are often used for sending and the appointment invitation can even come from one of your real contacts. To-…

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Facebook leak: fake SMS for new packages
18 April 2021
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More and more users in Germany are complaining about fake package notifications via SMS - also on company smartphones. In the SMS spam, recipients are asked to click on a link and install an app in order to see the delivery status of the alleged package. The FluBot banking Trojan gets onto the device when it is installed. ESET security expert Lukas Stefanko assesses the current situation and sees a connection between the wave of fake SMS and the Facebook data leak: “In the last seven days we have seen a rapid increase in the campaign in Germany. In addition to fake messages from Fedex, users receive ...

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16 million dangerous spam blocked
March 18, 2021
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16 million dangerous spam blocked

Cloud-based spam email threats benefit from COVID-19. Trend Micro has seen a surge in malware, phishing and credential theft, reporting 16,7 million blocked high-risk email threats that went undetected by the native filters of cloud-based Office solutions. This represents an increase of almost a third compared to 2019. The new statistics are provided by Trend Micro's Cloud App Security, an API-based solution that provides protection for Microsoft Exchange Online, Gmail and a number of other services at a second level of security . Indispensable: SaaS apps for remote employees "COVID-19 forced many companies to ...

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Cybercrime has specialized in 2020
March 1, 2021
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Fraudulent vaccination promises dominate the spam volume. ESET Threat Report: Ransomware is used for targeted attacks. Cybercrime has specialized in 2020. This is a conclusion of the Threat Report for the fourth quarter of 2020, which ESET has now published. The experts of the European IT security manufacturer also used the last report of the past year to look back on the year as a whole and to look ahead to 2021. Ransomware against companies One result of the report: Ransomware is being used more and more for targeted attacks against companies. Hackers, on the other hand, rely less and less on encryption Trojans for wide-ranging mass attacks. In addition, ...

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Agent Tesla tricked IT security
22. February 2021
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Agent Tesla tricked IT security

Sophos today released a new report on the malware Agent Tesla: “Agent Tesla Amps Up Information Stealing Attacks”. In it, the IT security specialists describe how attackers use new techniques to disable endpoint protection before injecting the malware into the system. Agent Tesla is a widely used Remote Access Tool (RAT) known since 2014 and used by attackers for data theft - now new updates on details about the attacks have come to light. The creators offer it for sale on dark web forums and update it continuously. Cybercriminals…

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