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Coalition Against Unsolicited Commercial Email - the Internet’s oldest end-user advocacy group.
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🔍 Limited WHOIS/RDAP access hinders cybercrime fight. gTLDs & ccTLDs restrict data, delaying investigations. ICANN & ccNSO must mandate timely access to tackle DNS abuse.

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#CAUCE #Cybersecurity
Knock Knock…Whois There? Registration Data…not!
Colin Strutt
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May 1, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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⚠️ US federal cybersecurity agencies face deep cuts, weakening defenses against cybercrimes, espionage, and state-sponsored attacks. Real threats loom—protect yourself and your org.

Read more: interisle.substack.com/p/death-by-1...

#CAUCE #CybersecurityAlert
Death by 1000 paper cuts: how foreign actors are bleeding a cyber-crippled US dry
Dave Piscitello
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April 28, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Bulk Registrations Used for Unpaid Toll Scams

In this article, we look at details of some of the bulk-registered domain names used in the Unpaid Toll Scams.

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Bulk Registrations Used for Unpaid Toll Scams
Colin Strutt
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April 2, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Three people have pleaded guilty for their role in a network which defrauded dozens of seniors of $1.2 million over three months in 2024.

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Guilty pleas in 'grandparent scam' expose prolific fraud network targeting seniors
Three people have pleaded guilty for their role in a network which defrauded dozens of seniors of $1.2 million over three months in 2024.
ottawacitizen.com
December 27, 2024 at 4:44 PM
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Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz

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#phishing #cybercrime
Why Phishers Love New TLDs Like .shop, .top and .xyz
Phishing attacks increased nearly 40 percent in the year ending August 2024, with much of that growth concentrated at a small number of new generic top-level domains (gTLDs) -- such as .shop, .top, .x...
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December 4, 2024 at 12:06 AM
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Pro tip for bad guys: do not, in your efforts to evade detection, give @nixonnixoff.bsky.social an extra strong motivation to hunt you down and peel the layers of your opsec back like an onion, because she will fucking do it www.therecord.com/news/waterlo...
Accused Kitchener hacker unmasked after threatening woman online
Kitchener-based hacker Alexander “Connor” Moucka was unmasked after making threats against a woman on the messaging app Telegram. Moucka threatened Allison Nixon, the chief research officer at Unit221...
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November 29, 2024 at 7:08 PM
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Online Clairvoyance Platforms Sanctioned for GDPR Violations. CNIL flagged issues such as excessive data collection, insufficient transparency, and poor security practices.

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Online Clairvoyance Platforms Sanctioned for GDPR Violations
November 26, 2024 at 3:24 PM
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"If you did not enter a contest, you are not the winner of the contest," reads the information released by St. Paul RCMP. Also, if you are told you won a content, you will never have to send any money to collect a prize.

#fraud #scam

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St. Paul RCMP remind people to be on the lookout for scams and cybercrime
St. Paul RCMP recently received a report where a person was scammed into buying and sending gift cards to someone.
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November 21, 2024 at 11:10 PM
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The Cybercrime Supply Chain 2024 report reveals a 54% surge in #cybercrime and outlines strategies to disrupt the resources enabling these attacks.

Read more here: www.cauce.org/insights-fro...
Insights from the 2024 Cybercrime Supply Chain Report
November 21, 2024 at 3:23 PM
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Two companies fined a total of £150k after bombarding people with #spam texts offering financial, debt services

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Two companies fined a total of £150k after bombarding people with spam texts offering financial, debt services
We have fined two Manchester based financial and debt management companies a total of £150,000 for sending in excess of 7.5million spam text messages to people.
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October 16, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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Do you need a license to hunt for spam? #California #spam #lawsuit
Do you need a license to hunt for spam? | CAUCE
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January 23, 2024 at 5:57 PM
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On Dec 29, 2023, the CNIL sanctioned the company YAHOO EMEA LTD with a fine of €10 million for not having respected the choice of Internet users who refused cookies on its “Yahoo.com” site and not having allowed to users of its “Yahoo! Mail” to freely withdraw their #consent to #cookies.
CNIL fines Yahoo 10M euros over alleged cookie consent violations
The French data protection authority, the CNIL, fined Yahoo EMEA 10 million euros over the company's alleged violations of the Data Protection Act.
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January 18, 2024 at 8:43 PM
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Great initiative:

Announcing "20 Targets for Takedown!" Watch this video to learn more about how ‘Intelligence for Good’ is fighting internet-enabled crime and how YOU can help.

Each week we will announce 20 websites contributing to the #OpioidCrisis & 20 involved in #CryptoScams

#TwentyTargets
Intelligence for Good on LinkedIn: 20 Targets_Week 1_CryptoScams
#20Targets Week 1: #Cryptoscams In our previous post, we introduced our #20Targets projects: Crypto Scams and Opioid Sales. Each week, we will share 20…
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January 17, 2024 at 12:24 AM
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What happens to a Romance Scam victim's money? How do criminal groups launder their funds?

Please check out Gary Warner’s "Cybercrime & Doing Time" blog.

Part 1 - garwarner.blogspot.com/2024/01/clas...

Part 2 - garwarner.blogspot.com/2024/01/clas...

#RomanceScams #AML #Nigeria
Classic Baggie: A Delaware BEC Case calls him the leader of an International Criminal Organization
A blog about cybercrime and fraud and the cases and criminals related to those crimes. BEC, scams, fraud, spam, phishing and malware
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January 14, 2024 at 3:15 PM
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HelloFresh fined over millions of #spam texts and emails:

The recipe box firm was told to pay £140,000 following a 2022 investigation by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO).

It found 79M emails & 1M texts were sent out over a 7-month period.

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#EmailMarketing #SMS
January 13, 2024 at 7:18 PM