Tag: scam
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Scammers Exploit Grok AI With Video Ad Scam to Push Malware on X
Researchers at Guardio Labs have uncovered a new >>Grokking
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New Phishing Tactic Targets PayPal’s 434M Users
A new PayPal phishing scam adds attackers as secondary users, letting them drain accounts while evading traditional detection. First seen on esecurityplanet.com Jump to article: www.esecurityplanet.com/news/paypal-email-scam-2025/
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Hackers Exploit X’s Grok AI to Push Malicious Links Through Ads
Malicious actors have found a new way to slip harmful links into X’s promoted posts by tricking Grok, the platform’s AI assistant. Although X explicitly bans links in paid promotions to curb malvertising, scammers now harness Grok’s content amplification to “grok” these URLs into wide circulation. AI Bypass Sparks New Threat X prohibits any URLs…
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New Scam Targets PayPal Users During Account Profile Setup
A highly sophisticated phishing campaign is targeting PayPal users with a deceptive email designed to grant scammers direct access to their accounts. The attack, which has been circulating for at least a month, uses a clever trick that bypasses traditional phishing detection methods by leading victims to the official PayPal website. The scam begins with…
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Hackers Exploit X’s Grok AI to Push Malicious Links Through Ads
Malicious actors have found a new way to slip harmful links into X’s promoted posts by tricking Grok, the platform’s AI assistant. Although X explicitly bans links in paid promotions to curb malvertising, scammers now harness Grok’s content amplification to “grok” these URLs into wide circulation. AI Bypass Sparks New Threat X prohibits any URLs…
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Japan, South Korea Take Aim at North Korean IT Worker Scam
With the continued success of North Korea’s IT worker scams, Asia-Pacific nations are working with private firms to blunt the scheme’s effectiveness. First seen on darkreading.com Jump to article: www.darkreading.com/cybersecurity-operations/japan-south-korea-north-korean-it-worker-scam
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FBI warns seniors are being targeted in three-phase Phantom Hacker scams
The FBI’s Internet Crime Complaint Center (IC3) says that the elderly are more at risk from falling victim to online fraud and internet scammers than ever before. First seen on fortra.com Jump to article: www.fortra.com/blog/fbi-warns-seniors-targeted-three-phase-phantom-hacker-scams
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Fake AnyDesk Installer Spreads MetaStealer Through ClickFix Scam
A new and clever ClickFix scam is using a fake AnyDesk installer and Windows search to bypass security,… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/fake-anydesk-installer-metastealer-clickfix-scam/
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Fake AnyDesk Installer Spreads MetaStealer Through ClickFix Scam
A new and clever ClickFix scam is using a fake AnyDesk installer and Windows search to bypass security,… First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/fake-anydesk-installer-metastealer-clickfix-scam/
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New WhatsApp Scam Poses Serious Risk: Hackers Can Hijack Your Chats
Users of the popular messaging app WhatsApp are being targeted by a new, highly deceptive scam that grants attackers full access to victims’ contacts, chat history, and media files. Cybercriminals are exploiting the app’s device linking feature to hijack accounts, then using the compromised profiles to spread further malicious links to unsuspecting friends and family.…
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Scammer Spoofs a City Supplier, Steals $1.5 Million from Baltimore
A scammer that spoofed a city supplier convinced employees in the City of Baltimore’s Accounts Payable Department to send two EFT payments totaling more than $1.5 million to a bank account they controlled and illustrating the ongoing threat posed by BEC fraud. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/09/scammer-spoofs-a-city-supplier-steals-1-5-million-from-baltimore/
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Scammer Spoofs a City Supplier, Steals $1.5 Million from Baltimore
A scammer that spoofed a city supplier convinced employees in the City of Baltimore’s Accounts Payable Department to send two EFT payments totaling more than $1.5 million to a bank account they controlled and illustrating the ongoing threat posed by BEC fraud. First seen on securityboulevard.com Jump to article: securityboulevard.com/2025/09/scammer-spoofs-a-city-supplier-steals-1-5-million-from-baltimore/
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Fraudulent Scholarship Apps Target Students in “Defarud” Scam Campaign
An Android malware tracker named SikkahBot, active since July 2024 and explicitly targeting students in Bangladesh. Disguised as applications from the Bangladesh Education Board, SikkahBot lures victims with promises of scholarships, coerces them into sharing sensitive information, and requests high-risk permissions. Once installed, it harvests personal and financial data, intercepts SMS messages, abuses the Accessibility…
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Fraudulent Scholarship Apps Target Students in “Defarud” Scam Campaign
An Android malware tracker named SikkahBot, active since July 2024 and explicitly targeting students in Bangladesh. Disguised as applications from the Bangladesh Education Board, SikkahBot lures victims with promises of scholarships, coerces them into sharing sensitive information, and requests high-risk permissions. Once installed, it harvests personal and financial data, intercepts SMS messages, abuses the Accessibility…
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Fraudster stole over $1.5 million from city of Baltimore
Scammer stole $1.5M from Baltimore by posing as a vendor and tricking staff into changing bank account details. A scammer stole over $1.5M from Baltimore city by spoofing a vendor and convincing staff to alter bank details, which appears to be a classic Business Email Compromise (BEC) attack. Between February and March 2025, the city’s…
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Task Scams: Trend Micro warnt vor digitalem Job-Betrug
First seen on datensicherheit.de Jump to article: www.datensicherheit.de/task-scams-trend-micro-warnung-digital-job-betrug
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Scammer steals $1.5 million from Baltimore by spoofing city vendor
In a post mortem of the incident, Baltimore Inspector General Isabel Mercedes Cumming said the city’s accounts payable department had failed to implement corrective measures after previous incidents of fraud and did not have proper protections in place to verify supplier details. First seen on therecord.media Jump to article: therecord.media/scammer-steals-baltimore-city-impersonation-vendor
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Inside the Scammer’s Mind: Attack Data Revealed
Inside the Mind of a Scammer: New Research That Unravels the Latest Fraud Trends To outsmart cybercriminals, you need to get inside their heads”, decipher their motives, anticipate their tactics. That’s exactly what our team of experts at Arkose Labs did. We pored over 12 months of data from some of the most heavily targeted…
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Cryptohack Roundup: Scammer Posing as UK Police Steals Bitcoin
Also: Taiwan Charges 14 in $41M Fraud; 1,200 Arrested in Cybercrime Bust. This week, a scammer posed as police to steal bitcon, Taiwan charged 14 in a $41M fraud case, U.S. regulators lifted a consent order on Anchorage Digital, U.S. federal prosecutors said writing code alone is not a crime and the U.S. Commodity Futures…
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Cryptohack Roundup: Scammer Posing as UK Police Steals Bitcon
Also: Taiwan Charges 14 in $41M Fraud; 1,200 Arrested in Cybercrime Bust. This week, a scammer posed as police to steal bitcon, Taiwan charged 14 in a $41M fraud case, U.S. regulators lifted a consent order on Anchorage Digital, U.S. federal prosecutors said writing code alone is not a crime and the U.S. Commodity Futures…
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How ACI Worldwide Plans to Take APP Scams Head-On – Part 2
XML-Based Messaging Tech Extends Fraud Detection Into Wider Bank Use Cases. ACI’s signals network intelligence harnesses neural networks and federated machine learning to spot fraud in real time without banks sharing data. Beyond fraud detection, its insights can drive business growth from other business units, and ACI aims to accelerate adoption by making it open…
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Fraud, Romance Scams, and Laundered Millions: Fifth Conspirator Convicted
A federal jury in Puerto Rico has convicted Oluwasegun Baiyewu, the fifth defendant in a transnational money laundering conspiracy involving fraud schemes run by Nigerian Organized Crime Groups. The 37-year-old Texas resident was found guilty following a 22-day trial in San Juan. First seen on thecyberexpress.com Jump to article: thecyberexpress.com/baiyewu-convicted-in-money-laundering/
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ScamAgent shows how AI could power the next wave of scam calls
Scam calls have long been a problem for consumers and enterprises, but a new study suggests they may soon get an upgrade. Instead of a human scammer on the other end of the … First seen on helpnetsecurity.com Jump to article: www.helpnetsecurity.com/2025/08/28/scamagent-ai-threats-scam-calls/
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Sting nails two front firms in Nork IT worker scam
There’s also a rogue Russian on the list First seen on theregister.com Jump to article: www.theregister.com/2025/08/27/us_treasury_korea_sanctions/
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Scammers Steal $1 Million in Crypto Using Fake Delta and AMC Sites
Cybersecurity firm Netcraft has discovered a new task scam cluster that has stolen over $1 million in crypto…. First seen on hackread.com Jump to article: hackread.com/scammers-steal-crypto-using-fake-delta-and-amc-sites/