They create meme coins etc?
How are cyber criminals rolling in 2025?
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Re: How are cyber criminals rolling in 2025?
#22> Norton, Kaspersky, Zscaler, F-secure, NordVPN, Virustotal, Palo Alto: all of them marked these links as safe. This is sad to see, these tools are forced down so many companies in name of "compliance" while totally not worth the maintenance and cost overhead. Apparently they haven't got any better in the last decade.
Well, that's exactly the difference between complience and security
Re: How are cyber criminals rolling in 2025?
#23These days most "cyber" crimes are commited by corporations against their customers/users (just like most theft is wage theft). These small fish/phish putting sites on exploited servers are a drop in the bucket. It is sad when some university resource gets shut down because they didn't mantain it after the grad student that set it up graduates though. We really need to teach the people that set up these things to use…
Sure. Corporations commit ransomware attacks all the time.
Re: How are cyber criminals rolling in 2025?
#24Among the common vulnerabilities listed: > Outdated Wordpress plugins and CMS systems No surprise, having worked in edu the following scenario was very common: 1) Researcher gets a grant for a project 2) Grad student sets up a Drupal site for the project 3) Things are maintained and updated for a couple of years 4) Grant runs out, project wraps up, student graduates, everyone forgets about the server which sits unatt…
At my old university ~15 years ago, all IPs of all computers were public IPV4 addresses . Any computer plugged in to any ethernet port on campus was given such a "quasi-static" IP address. All normal ports were open - ssh, http(s), you name it. It was the OG zero trust architecture.
Ah the good old days of putting my head down at my desk lulled into a nap by the once-a-second sounds of ssh login attempt logs being written to the spinning rust drive...
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#26Among the common vulnerabilities listed: > Outdated Wordpress plugins and CMS systems No surprise, having worked in edu the following scenario was very common: 1) Researcher gets a grant for a project 2) Grad student sets up a Drupal site for the project 3) Things are maintained and updated for a couple of years 4) Grant runs out, project wraps up, student graduates, everyone forgets about the server which sits unatt…
The low friction solution is to serve public_html from a home dir and direct users to generate static sites.
Re: How are cyber criminals rolling in 2025?
#27Is it just me or is cybersecurity... Calming down? I feel like a few years ago there was constant news of ransomware, intrusions, vulnerabilities, etc, but more recently the defensive side seems to have the upper hand.
Not particularly. The only thing I have noticed in the past decade is the decline of the "American Hacker". Most groups are foreign but will partner with younger Americans for social engineering (ex. Scattered Spider). You just don't have people like Albert Gonzalez/Stephen Watt in America now. However, I suspect that many American hackers have shifted to targeting overseas countries that are not friendly with the US.
Re: How are cyber criminals rolling in 2025?
#28I've noticed on some scam forums and subreddits I frequent that scammers have been using target site's own support searches to redirect users to scam phone numbers. On both Ticketmaster and Facebook, and many other sites, when you perform a search on their support site it spits back your query in big letters at the top of the page. If you craft the correct search and then buy Google Ads pretending to be Ticketmaster,…
How desperate one has to be...
Have you tried getting ticketing support from Ticketmaster? Even a sketchy phone number is better than no option at all…
Re: How are cyber criminals rolling in 2025?
#29I've noticed on some scam forums and subreddits I frequent that scammers have been using target site's own support searches to redirect users to scam phone numbers. On both Ticketmaster and Facebook, and many other sites, when you perform a search on their support site it spits back your query in big letters at the top of the page. If you craft the correct search and then buy Google Ads pretending to be Ticketmaster,…
So, I craft a search where the search query is “call 1 800 scam”, then I buy a google ad with key word of “ticketmaster help”, the ad links to real ticketmaster with my query, and google shows that ad to someone having trouble and hey presto they call my scam line at 4 quid a minute from their mobile? Yuck all round. I mean ticketmaster is just a sin eater for greedy popstars but yuck ..
But why does google allow unverified owners of a domain to buy ads for it? Surely only ticketmaster or agencies approved by ticket master should be allowed to do this?
Re: How are cyber criminals rolling in 2025?
#30I've noticed on some scam forums and subreddits I frequent that scammers have been using target site's own support searches to redirect users to scam phone numbers. On both Ticketmaster and Facebook, and many other sites, when you perform a search on their support site it spits back your query in big letters at the top of the page. If you craft the correct search and then buy Google Ads pretending to be Ticketmaster,…
So, I craft a search where the search query is “call 1 800 scam”, then I buy a google ad with key word of “ticketmaster help”, the ad links to real ticketmaster with my query, and google shows that ad to someone having trouble and hey presto they call my scam line at 4 quid a minute from their mobile? Yuck all round. I mean ticketmaster is just a sin eater for greedy popstars but yuck ..
> Yuck all round.
Yes, but also it's an impressive digital Jedi mind trick on a website.
signs a question mark with hand
"This is the support number you're looking for."
And the victim is extra primed here because so many companies make it nearly impossible to talk to a human. Yikes!
Almost seems like there's room here for a grey hat to come in and use this trick to do a good faith job trying to help the customer through their problem. Then tell them at the end that a recent anti-trust suit requires them to tell the customer about alternate independent venues in their area where they can support live music.