T-Mobile Carrier Scammer Gets Decade in the Slammer
Phishing emails and social engineering scams were all it took for mobile phone store owner Argishti Khudaverdyan to breach the mobile provisioning systems of T-Mobile, AT&T, and Sprint to “unlock” phones from their network constraints — earning him more than $25 million in the process. Now Khudaverdyan has been convicted and sentenced to 10 years…
9 top anti-phishing tools and services
Phishing ranks low on the list of cyberattacks in terms of technological sophistication. Even more sophisticated phishing variants like spear phishing (focused and often personalized phishing attacks) and whaling (phishing attacks focused on high-profile or high-dollar targets) are focused more on social engineering than on technology. Yet phishing remains one of the most effective types…
SBA Spoofed in COVID-19 Spam to Deliver Remcos RAT
Between late March and mid-April 2020, IBM X-Force Incident Response and Intelligence Services (IRIS) uncovered a phishing campaign targeting small businesses that appears to originate from the U.S. Government Small Business Administration (SBA.gov). The emails, which contain subjects and attachments related to the need for small businesses to apply for disaster relief loans or provide…
Enticing Clicks With Spam
Among the key findings from the upcoming IBM X-Force Threat Intelligence Index for 2017, available March 29, is the ongoing use of spam as an entry vector for attackers. While targeted attacks make headlines, the prevalence of spam traffic means that a variety of attackers are still finding success in this scattershot method to gain…