Phishing scams involve gaining a user’s trust by imitating a known company or service. A scam can target you with a phony email from your streaming service provider, for example. They’ll ask for your login credentials or payment for a bill that doesn’t exist.
Why reinvent the wheel? Business email compromise attacks, aka CEO fraud, continue to be one of the most dominant types of online-enabled crime because such scams remain highly lucrative.
Cybercrooks are posting help-wanted ads on dark web forums, promising to do the technical work of compromising email accounts but looking for native English speakers to carry out the social-engineering part of these lucrative scams.
Recognising that their lack of proficiency in the English language scuttles many of their cyber campaigns, cyber criminals are now actively recruiting native English speakers to enhance the success rate of their fraudulent operations.
Scammers are seeking help to ensure language mistakes are no longer a giveaway
Native English speakers are being recruited in their droves by criminals trying to make Business Email Compromise (BEC) more effective.
New information from Intel 471 examines the common exploit tactics of the cybercrime group known as ShinyHunters.
ShinyHunters, a notorious cybercriminal underground group that's been on a data breach spree since last year, has been observed searching companies' GitHub repository source code for vulnerabilities that can be abused to stage larger scale attacks, an analysis of the hackers' modus operandi has revealed
It’s nice when ransomware gangs have their bitcoin stolen, malware servers shut down, or are otherwise forced to disband.
Ransomware operations continue to thrive thanks to a vibrant cybercrime-as-a-service ecosystem designed to support all manner of online attacks.
Intel 471 announced the appointment of Ms. Yang Cao as the company’s senior regional director, Asia-Pacific (APAC).
Russia and Ukraine promised to cooperate and help catch the world’s most successful hackers. But things didn’t quite go to plan.
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