30 Jan 2023
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 01/30/2023

New 'Pig Butchering' Scam in West Africa Impersonates US Financial Advisors  A malicious campaign impersonating American financial advisors has been spotted targeting several hundred individuals in West Africa. Recently discovered by cybersecurity experts at DomainTools, the 'pig butchering' operation uses a complex network of social engineering techniques to defraud victims. Describing the activity in an advisory shared with Infosecurity, DomainTools said most attacks from the unnamed threat actor used professional network services such as LinkedIn to identify, research and contact potential…
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25 Nov 2022
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 11/25/2022

U.S. govt seizes domains used in 'pig butchering' scams For the first time, the U.S. Department of Justice seized seven domains that hosted websites linked to "pig butchering" scams, where fraudsters trick victims of romance scams into investing in cryptocurrency via fake investment platforms. The list of domains seized includes simexcbr.com, simexlua.com, simexwim.com, simexarts.com, simexrue.com, simexvtn.com, and simexbiz.com, all of them spoofing the one used by the Singapore International Monetary Exchange (SIMEX). While originating from…
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06 Oct 2022
By Mary

InfoSec News Nuggets 10/06/2022

Former Uber security chief convicted of covering up 2016 data breach  A former chief security officer for Uber was convicted Wednesday of federal charges stemming from payments he quietly authorized to hackers who breached the ride-hailing company in 2016. Joe Sullivan was found guilty of obstructing justice for hiding the breach from the Federal Trade Commission, which had been probing Uber’s privacy protections at the time, and of actively hiding a felony. The verdict ended a dramatic…
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