fraudsters

The year 2024 has arrived. A year of technology and new fraudulent schemes! The 25th of January It all started on Thursday, when I was unable to log into my Tinkoff Bank personal account. Suspecting something was wrong, I immediately contacted support. The employee checked the information and...

The spread of this scheme was recorded by the F.A.C.C.T. and "League of Stakes" Using the F.A.C.C.T. system Fraud Protection prevented more than 3,000 online fraud attempts in the first quarter of 2024, including through rented and purchased accounts. ⚙️ How the circuit works ➡️ One attacker...

Employees of the Department for Combating the Illegal Use of Information and Telecommunications Technologies of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Sverdlovsk region, together with colleagues from the regional division of the Federal Security Service of...

Fraudsters have started massively generating fake bank card photos via Telegram chatbots — they are sent to potential victims from hacked accounts of relatives and friends in order to increase trust, the Izvestia newspaper writes. At the first stage, attackers break into a person's messenger...

Employees of the Department for Organizing the fight against the illegal use of information and Communication Technologies of the Main Directorate of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia in the Novosibirsk region, with the strong support of fighters of the regional Department of Regardie...

How an attacker can hack your account with a single phone. A vulnerability in the call forwarding feature allows hackers to intercept phone calls and two-factor authentication (2FA) codes with minimal interaction with the victim. This is reported by safe researcher Jamison Vincenti O'Reilly in...

The cyber police of Dnipropetrovsk region together with the investigators of the regional GUNP under the procedural leadership of the Dnipropetrovsk regional Prosecutor's Office exposed three fraudsters from Kamenskoye, who sold non-existent goods via the Internet. It is established that a...

The expert uncovered a phishing scam, allegedly aimed at the creditors of the bankrupt crypto companies BlockFi and FTX. In just five days, losses from ongoing fraud totaled $7 million. A researcher under the name Plum discovered that victims receive emails from supposedly restructuring teams...

F. A. C. C. T. warned of new attacks on bank customers. The Russian company F. A. C. C. T. warns about an increase in cases of theft of mobile numbers among users in Russia for illegal access to their online banking. Criminals carry out "hijacking" of numbers, using mechanisms of substitution...

The fraudulent scheme made it possible to siphon $2 million out of Ether.Fi. During the fraudulent attack, the crypto investor lost 501 ETH (about $2 million). The funds were stolen through the liquid restaking protocol Ether.Fi. According to Etherscan, the theft occurred on March 14 and...

Fraudsters tried to get personal data of CNews employees by sending a fake document to the editorial office about the initiation of a criminal case against the editorial office in connection with "another influence of foreign special services." Information security experts call this a common...

The Department of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of Russia for the Belebeyevsky district received a message from a local resident about fraud. Scammers swindled the applicant out of more than 2 million rubles. They called under the guise of employees of a mobile company and offered to extend...

In the Vitebsk region, a cryptocurrency trader who provided assistance to fraudsters in withdrawing income was detained. BelTA learned this from the Interior Ministry. The man came to the attention of operatives on countering cybercrime of the Orsha district police department. In the course of...

The Georgian Prosecutor's Office announced the arrest of seven people: apparently, they were members of a criminal group that operated international fraudulent call centers and laundered large sums obtained by criminal means. According to the investigation, the organized crime group established...

Scammers convinced an employee that the world around them was an illusion. According to SCMP media, an international company in Hong Kong became a victim of fraud using deepfake technology, losing $25.6 million. Employees of a local branch were deceived by using a digital double of the chief...

National Police officers carried out stops and searches as part of the first phase of an operation starting in 2022 to dismantle a criminal organization based in the south of Tenerife. Victor Zames (Iestafeta) reports this from Spain. Police have arrested 33 alleged members of an organization...

By the verdict of the Krasnokamsk City Court, a previously convicted 32-year-old resident of Tchaikovsky was found guilty of committing four crimes under Part 4 of Art. 159 of the Criminal Code of the Russian Federation “Fraud”. During the investigation of a multi-episode criminal case against...

The FTC has warned citizens that QR codes have become a new vector of cyber attacks. The US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) has issued a warning about the growing threat of fraud using QR codes that can be used to seize control of smartphones, conduct fraudulent transactions or obtain users '...

The Supreme Court of the Russian Federation has ordered courts to assess the actions of credit institutions in terms of good faith, reasonableness and prudence when entering into loan agreements through a mobile bank. The highest instance criticized the actions of the bank, which, knowing that...

The FCC is introducing new rules to combat the increased fraud scheme. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) The United States has announced new regulations aimed at stopping SIM swapping, which is widely used by hackers to gain access to users personal information and passwords. This scheme...