Kwamaine Jerell Ford allegedly impersonated an adult film star and tricked his high-profile victims into sharing their iCloud credentials and MFA codes under false pretenses.
Palo Alto Network’s incident response firm said identity-based attacks are exploding as poor security controls stretch across a widening mosaic of integrated tools and systems.
A huge chunk of all scam revenues being tracked by Chainalysis on the blockchain (43%) were sent to wallets that only became active over the past year — something Chainalysis said suggests a surge of newly created scamming campaigns (Credit: Getty Images)
As enforcement and attribution have improved, scammers are ditching static infrastructure and drawn-out schemes for shorter campaigns that use disposable assets.