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Chinese "COVID-19" Hackers indicted after 11 year hacking spree
On July 7, 2020, a Grand Jury in Seattle was presented with evidence about the eleven year campaign of Computer Network Intrusion being conducted by two former classmates who hacked for personal profit...
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RoboCallers Hit with Permanent Injunction by Courts
The Eastern District of New York has ruled in the case "United States v. Nicholas Palumbo, et al" effectively putting TollFreeDeals.com and SIPRetail.com out of business. These are the "Voice Over IP"...
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Trickbot On The Ropes: Microsoft's Case Against Trickbot
Trickbot is having a truly bad time this month! While as of today, Trickbot binaries are being delivered by Emotet, there is every sign that they are struggling. Emotet's daily activities are best...
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Trickbot on the Ropes Part 2: The QQAAZZ Money Laundering Ring
While shutting down the technical aspects of malware is critical (see Trickbot on the Ropes Part 1), the real disincentive to the criminals is when you hit them hard in the money. That was the...
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US Victims of Indian Call Center Scams Send Cash to Money Mules Across the...
On November 6, 2020, the US Attorney in the Eastern District of Virginia announced the sentence for a husband and wife, Chirag Choksi and Shachi Majmudar, both 36 years old. This pair had involved...
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The ENISA Cybersecurity Threat Landscape
ENISA, the European Union Agency for CyberSecurity, met on October 6, 2020 to review their current recommendations and get any last minute changes. On October 20, 2020, they released a huge batch of...
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ENISA: Top 15 Threats: Spam, Phishing, and Malware!
ENISA's Top 15 Threats report starts with this summary document: https://www.enisa.europa.eu/publications/enisa-threat-landscape-2020-list-of-top-15-threats <= Flipbook...
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Major Nigerian Phishing and BEC Actors, SSGToolz and CeeCeeBossTMT, Arrested...
An Interpol headline on November 25, 2020 announces "Three arrested as INTERPOL, Group-IB and the Nigeria Police Force disrupt prolific cybercrime group" however the article does not name the...
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Phone Company Insiders Helped Global Sim-Swapping Gang Steal Millions in...
This week law enforcement agencies around the world made press releases about the arrest of SIM Swapping criminals. The UK's National Crime Agency says "eight men have been arrested in England and...
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The Complete Soldier Romance Scam Support Site
Yesterday we were reviewing a Work From Home "Mystery Shopper" scam, and ended by pointing out some of the scam shipping companies hosted on the same IP address. But still on our same IP address, we...
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Mystery Shoppers Challenge Gift Card Warnings
Have you ever seen those spam messages claiming they have a great job for you as a Mystery Shopper? After seizing a check from a client (and then shredding it) a local bank let us check out the scam!...
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Microsoft Exchange: Patching Too Late If Already Compromised
On March 2, 2021, Microsoft accused a Chinese APT group which they name Hafnium of compromising 30,000 Exchange servers. They announced four security vulnerabilities, known as 0-days, which refers to...
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PPP Fraud or How to Use the CARES Act to Go To Prison
If you are one of the thousands of people who fraudulently filed for a Paycheck Protection Program or PPP Loan under the CARES Act, pay attention! This blog post is going to explain why you should...
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Say $6 Trillion Again ... I DARE you: Examining the roots of a total BS...
Would you like to see someone's head explode? Observe what happens when I'm researching a topic and I see a headline like this AVG story which claims "Ransomware is set to cause $6 trillion in damages...
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Operation Skein: The Irish Garda Target Nigerian BEC Criminals
It seems nearly every week that the Garda National Economic Crime Bureau (the GNECB) announces a new arrest in Operation SKEIN. In a newly released featured interview, Ireland's "The Journal" had...
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Nations come together to condemn China: APT31 and APT40
On Monday (19JUL2021) President Biden announced that the US and its allies were joining together to condemn and expose that China was behind a set of unprecedented attacks exploiting vulnerabilities...
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Levashov Walks. Russian Spam King gets slap on the wrist
The US government and the White House like to talk tough on Ransomware. If you listen to Joe Biden, fighting Ransomware is a top priority of the US Government. He's spent time convincing the G7,...
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Hushpuppi Pleads Guilty: Sentence Estimate? 11-14 Years
On July 27, 2021, Ramon Olorunwa Abbas, also known as Hushpuppi, decided that his best plan would be to avoid spending the rest of his life in prison was to plead guilty. I've actually never seen a...
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The Taliban Leadership: By the Sanctions
The Taliban announced the leadership of their new Afghan government this week. As expected, there were many familiar names to those who follow terrorism sanctions. What does this mean for financial...
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AT&T Free Msg: You know you shouldn't click ... so we did it for you!
If you live in the United States and have an AT&T phone, you are almost certainly receiving SMS messages that look something like this:AT&T Free Msg: August bill is paid. Thanks, MARY! Here's...
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