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Graham Cluley
Three Californian residents have been convicted of laundering millions of dollars tricked out of older adults who had fallen victim to government-imposter and tech support scams. Read more in my article on the Hot for Security blog.
The Hacker News
Cybersecurity researchers have detailed an updated version of an advanced fingerprinting and redirection toolkit called WoofLocker that's engineered to conduct tech support scams. The sophisticated traffic redirection scheme was first documented by Malwarebytes in January 2020, leveraging JavaScript embedded in compromised websites to perform anti-bot and web traffic filtering checks to serve
Graham Cluley
The FBI warns that tech support scammers are increasingly telling their victims to send actual cash, concealed in newspaper or a magazine, rather than wiring funds. But why? Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
The Register
The approach is the same, but never mind the crypto or gift cards Cybercriminals are taking their business offline in a new approach to familiar technical support scams recently identified by the US Federal Bureau of Investigation.…
Bleeping Computer
Graham Cluley
Multinational payment processing firm Nexway has been rapped across the knuckles by the US authorities, who claim that the firm knowingly processed fraudulent credit card payments on behalf of tech support scammers. Read more in my article on the Tripwire State of Security blog.
Dark Reading
Avast researchers also discovered and reported two zero-day vulnerabilities, and observed the spread of information-stealing malware, remote access trojans, and botnets.
ZDNet Security
Scammers try to convince victims they're about to lose hundreds of dollars through a service payment - then use remote access software to get into their PCs.
Bleeping Computer
U.S. victims lost nearly $21 billion to cyber-enabled crimes last year, driven primarily by investment scams, business email compromise, tech support fraud, and data breaches, the Federal Bureau of Investigation says. [...]