Phishing. Zero-Days, Malware. Crypto Fraud...
The Worldwide Summer of Scams
September 7th, 2021
By Dominic Alvieri
Summer 2021.
Phishing, malware, daily crypto scams or a new zero-day highlighted security researchers days. This summer was just as busy as the first pandemic summer. The 20th zero-day was just logged against Microsoft today ( CVE-2021-40444 ) and 62nd overall this year.
Companies from every industry were and are being targeted. Spear phishing against the financial industry with FINRA under several different attempts.
Phishing continues at a torrid pace.
Twitter patent infringement phishing
Scotiabank
PayPal
Twilio
Microsoft tech support scam
Examples of recent cryptocurrency scams
Cryptocurrency scams highlighted the summer non-malware news. As crypto markets boomed so have crypto scams. New BEP20 token offerings have been all the rage with ease of registration.
The crazy crypto wild west.
Twitter examples
Baby coin mania peaks
Fake crypto exchanges caught xBinance exchange and Binance Futures dotnet.
Twitter scammer foiled again. twittercrypto[.]net
more fake tokens
Student aid phishing. Fake FAFSA logins
The internet was crowded before.
Several recent FBI warnings should be taken seriously. Weekends and holidays should be staffed adequately.
Alerts include hyphenated domains which are becoming a major target for scammers.
The summer is over but the scams continue.
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