A Cofense Intelligence report details the finding of a phishing campaign that uses the issue of COVID-19 disease to infect victims with a new version of the Hentai OniChan ransomware. Formerly known as King Engine, this variant filters victim data and charges a much larger ransom than other detected variants. The infection campaigns that used […]
Malware and legal requirements force academics and students to join a near-endless line in order to pick up their passwords
When comparing the difference of a shared server to a private server configuration one thing that people never consider is the fact that on a shared host – your host CAN shut down your entire server for a number of reasons – this happened to me recently and I wanted to explain what happened and […]
According to ethical hacking specialists, two Romanian citizens have been sentenced to 20 years in prison for infecting more than 400,000 computer computers with a variant of malware to extract financial information, an incident that led to a million-dollar fraud. Bogdan Nicolescu (35 years old) and Radu Miclaus (37 years old), were convicted by a […]
Antbot.pw provides a free, open API endpoint for checking a domain or email address against a frequently-updated list of disposable domains. CORS is enabled for all originating domains, so you can call the API directly from your client-side code.GET https://antibot.pw/api/disposable?email=radenvodka@0815.su HTTP/1.1The response will be JSON with one boolean property, e.g. {“disposable”:false}Using jQuery? <script> $( “#email” […]
If you’re an online business owner that runs email marketing campaigns, you should know that phishing campaigns still prevail to trick your customers into divulging private information. For instance, hackers lured users with a fake Avengers: Endgame download scam to divulge their credit card details. They also promoted false Ray-ban discounts to steal peoples’ money. […]
According to web application security specialists, a recently patched vulnerability in Microsoft login system could have been exploited to trick some users into granting hackers full access to their online accounts. Thanks to the presence of this vulnerability, threat actors were able to inadvertently extract access tokens, so they could access victims’ accounts without having […]
The importance of welcome emails is undeniably a vibe that keeps getting stronger each minute. According to a survey by Epsilon’s Email Institute and Multichannel Merchant, welcome emails carry the highest opening (60 percent) rate above any other emails sent out to your subscribers. They are, as most would agree, short and to the point and […]
New malspam email campaign discovered with fake windows updater and its Builder, through which hackers launching Cyborg Ransomware to encrypt the compromised systems files. A spam email claims to be from Microsoft and email body urges the victims to Install the Latest “Microsoft Windows Update” by opening the attached file. Fake update attachment appears with […]
The once web titan Yahoo has faced over four data breaches to date. The biggest one so far was in 2013 which affected over three billion Yahoo email account holders. Another one in late 2014 compromised data of over five hundred million users, the next one in 2016 where 200 million user accounts went for […]
If you’re reading this post, you are probably more or less familiar with brand new AMP for Emails technology developed by Google. It turned out that new horizons are opened wide for the commercial email channel. Therefore email marketers don’t have to retrain into plumbers or waiters. However, new skills and knowledge are obviously required […]
Unfortunately, data breaches are very common incidents today, with email addresses being one of the most exposed data in these cases. In this regard, information security experts, in collaboration with the firm Who Is Hosting This, conducted a study to find the most secure email services, as well as those most exposed to hackers. One […]
Online extortion campaigns keep growing. This time, data protection specialists report the emergence of a new extortion campaign that uses a network of nearly 500,000 infected devices to send threatening emails. In this message, hackers threaten victims to post compromising photos & videos unless they make a payment of $800 USD in Bitcoin. The email […]
A decade-old botnet malware that currently controls over 450,000 computers worldwide has recently shifted its operations from infecting machines with ransomware or crypto miners to abusing them for sending out sextortion emails to millions of innocent people. Extortion by email is growing significantly, with a large number of users recently complaining about receiving sextortion emails […]
Anonymous email in which third party servers are used to send email. Mostly these anonymous email servers are used to hide actual sender’s address. There are many servers available online for sending mails. Some are paid & free. We will looking at freely available anonymous email servers. According to ethical hacking researcher of International Institute […]
Famous Email service provider Click2mail suffering from a massive data breach that leaked their customer sensitive personal information, and the attackers used the stolen email addresses to send spam emails. October 4th, 2019, Click2Mail learned that their customer’s data were being used by unknown parties who have abused the customer’s email address to send the […]
Privacy scandals involving large social media companies are becoming more frequent nowadays. This time, web application security specialists report that the phone numbers used for multi-factor authentication and email addresses linked to the Twitter users accounts were “inadvertently” used for advertising purposes. The alleged error was revealed on the company’s official blog. In their post […]
A critical security vulnerability has been discovered and fixed in the popular open-source Exim email server software, which could allow a remote attacker to simply crash or potentially execute malicious code on targeted servers. Exim maintainers today released an urgent security update—Exim version 4.92.3—after publishing an early warning two days ago, giving system administrators an […]
Malware or computer virus can infect your computer in several different ways, but one of the most common methods of its delivery is through malicious file attachments over emails that execute the malware when you open them. Therefore, to protect its users from malicious scripts and executable, Microsoft is planning to blacklist 38 additional file […]
Emagnet is a very powerful tool to capture email addresses and passwords from leaked databases uploaded on pastebin. It’s almost impossible to find leaked passwords when they are out of list on pastebin.com. Either they have been deleted by pastebin’s techs or the uploads is just one in the crowd. To be honest it’s easier […]
Hackers using Captcha to hide the presence of malware and to evade email security gateways. By using this technique attackers show that email is sent human and evades detection. Attackers use various social engineering methods to trick the users to believe the emails is from a legitimate source, here the email’s are from a compromised […]