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2. Zeus (malware) - Wikipedia

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   FBI: The Zeus Fraud Scheme. In October 2010 the US FBI announced that hackers in Eastern Europe had managed to infect computers around the world using Zeus. [8] The virus was distributed in an e-mail, and when targeted individuals at businesses and municipalities opened the e-mail, the trojan software installed itself on the victimized computer, secretly capturing passwords, account numbers ...

3. Gameover ZeuS - Wikipedia

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   GameOver ZeuS (GOZ), also known as peer-to-peer (P2P) ZeuS, ZeuS3, and GoZeus, is a Trojan horse developed by Russian cybercriminal Evgeniy Bogachev. Created in 2011 as a successor to Jabber Zeus, another project of Bogachev's, the malware is notorious for its usage in bank fraud resulting in damages of approximately $100 million and being the main vehicle through which the CryptoLocker ...

4. Money mule - Wikipedia

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   In 2010, The FBI Cyber Crimes Task Force, composed of Federal, State, and Local law enforcement, charged more than 37 defendants involved in a highly organized money mule scheme, facilitated by the Zeus Financial Trojan. This group of money mules opened several bank accounts, using both real and fake identification, to receive stolen funds from ...

5. Avalanche (phishing group) - Wikipedia

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   Avalanche attacks also spread the Zeus Trojan horse enabling further criminal activity. The majority of domains which Avalanche used belonged to national domain name registrars in Europe and Asia. This differs from other phishing attacks, where the majority of domains use U.S. registrars. It appears that Avalanche chose registrars based on ...

6. Why We Can’t Look Away From Scammer Stories - AOL

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   Credit - Apple Cider Vinegar: Netflix; Scam Goddess: Disney; Scamanda: ABC News Studios. E arly in her new Netflix series Apple Cider Vinegar, its star, Kaitlyn Dever, breaks the fourth wall ...

7. How email spoofing can affect AOL Mail

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   While some legitimate emails come through this way via mailing lists and bulk senders, it also provides the means for spammers to take advantage. By switching AOL Mail's policy to reject these, we significantly impact spammers' attempts to scam our customers.

8. Timeline of computer viruses and worms - Wikipedia

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   September: The CryptoLocker Trojan horse is discovered. CryptoLocker encrypts the files on a user's hard drive, then prompts them to pay a ransom to the developer to receive the decryption key. In the following months, several copycat ransomware Trojans were also discovered. December: The Gameover ZeuS Trojan is discovered. This type of virus ...

9. Protect yourself from internet scams - AOL Help

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   Phishing scams happen when you receive an email that looks like it came from a company you trust (like AOL), but is ultimately from a hacker trying to get your information. All legitimate AOL Mail will be marked as either Certified Mail, if its an official marketing email, or Official Mail, if it's an important account email. If you get an ...