Built to harvest the banking credentials of victims, the virulent Dridex is now one of the most dangerous pieces of financial malware in circulation. Tidal waves of spam are fuelling the growth of the Dridex Trojan, which has emerged as one of the most dangerous financial threats over the past year. The sheer size of […]
Spam campaign targets Portuguese-speaking firms in Brazil and other regions to deliver malware and steal sensitive data. Symantec has observed an ongoing spam campaign targeting Brazil-based companies and other firms that use Portuguese-language computers around the globe. The attackers behind the campaign appear to be interested in obtaining access to email accounts to ultimately steal […]
An email with a “terror alert” seems to be a new way of launching phishing attack and dropping malware from cyber criminals. People from several different parts of the world have reported such kind of attacks. According to the sources, people from countries like Canada, Dubai, Bahrain and Turkey have received emails notifying them of […]
On Tuesday, Amazon started sending out emails to its users asking for a quick password reset, the reason is a possible breach of some of the users’ credentials. According to the email (dispatched by the company), Amazon was not sure if there is a possible breach into their systems or not but as a precautionary […]
The teen hacking group “Crackas With Attitude” (CWA), who hacked into the email account of CIA’s director John Brennan last month has struck again. This time, they have breached into federal systems and have leaked lots of sensitive data. Since the last month’s attack, the hackers reportedly compromised email account of FBI Deputy Director Mark […]
A security researcher (Troy Hunt), who owns the website (haveibeenpwned) have discovered a possible breach of webhosting service 000Webhost servers. Basically, hunt’s site provides information on whether a user’s data has ever been breached online. So, an unknown user recently contacted the researcher and told him about a data breach taking place in an attack […]
WIKILEAKS MAY DESCRIBE itself as an outlet for whistleblowers, but it’s never hesitated to publish stolen documents offered up by a helpful hacker, either. So it’s no surprise that it’s now leaked the pilfered files of the CIA’s director, John Brennan. CIA Director John Brennan On Wednesday, the secret-spilling group published a series of selected […]
Answers on a postcard from Syria, please. GCHQ has declined to comment on a report in the Daily Telegraph this weekend, which claimed that UK cabinet ministers’ emails had been hacked, but that – bafflingly – no breach had occurred. Which is a bit like saying “nothing happened, but we’re going to write a story […]
In May 2015, we reported an alert to be careful of a Dropbox phishing scam, but it seems not everyone takes such scams seriously. Kathleen Calligan, the CEO of the BBB has spent a huge chunk of her entire career trying to educate consumers about the importance of internet safety, but she found out on Thursday […]
Today, the common public is aware, more than ever, regarding rights and privacy. Recent revelations made by whistleblowers like Edward Snowden and Julian Assange have made it clearer that your government is looking at your personal data. In the wake of some new leaks by Edward Snowden, I’d like to tell you that government can “effortlessly” read […]
In 2013, we came up with a tutorial on How to undo sent emails on gmail. Now a new email tool has been announced by Google for its Gmail users so that they can retrieve emails that they have sent within 30 seconds. The new “Undo Send” tool by Google is an amazing new feature […]
Not only is Brazil one of the most populated countries in the world, but it is also one of the countries with the highest percentage of Internet users using online banking. The latest research from ESET is now available: CPL Malware in Brazil.
The online hacktivist Anonymous claims to leak emails and passwords of Baltimore Police Department (BPD) against the death of Freddie Gray, a 25-year-old African-American Baltimore resident who died on April 19, 2015, a week after being arrested by the BPD. On 2nd May 2015, one of the Twitter handle associated with Anonymous hacktivists leaked emails and IP addresses of workers at […]
American President Barack Obama’s emails were accessed by Russian hackers last October in a White House security breach, according to the NYT report. The emails that were read during this computer system breach were of unclassified nature. Earlier this month, officials admitted that White House security system was hacked by Russian hackers. According to the […]
Hundreds and thousands of documents and emails breached during last Christmas’ cyberattack on Sony Pictures have been published on WikiLeaks, reports the BBC.
Tax Return-themed Emails make Users in America the Target of Ransomware – Attackers sending genuine-looking Internal Revenue Service (IRS) tax refund messages. Today, when the culture of filing tax reports in the United States has come to an end, cybercriminals have instigated their phishing lure and are busy distributing fake emails that appear to be from the […]
The famous international, non-profit, journalistic organisation WikiLeaks published thousands of hacked Sony Emails. You can now access, read and search all the hacked documents — Sony is not happy about it. On Thursday, WikiLeaks published 170,000 emails and 30,000 documents belonging to Sony Pictures, acquired from world-renowned hack where North Korea was blamed for breaching Sony […]
Tax Refund Emails From the Australian Taxation Office just a Malware. Reportedly, an email message is being circulated that appears to be sent from ATO/Australian Taxation Office and informs the recipients that they have become eligible for tax refund. To know the details about the surprise windfall, users are encouraged to open an attached file […]
It has been found that hackers can now easily abuse any website’s domain name based email addresses through the Google Apps for work. These e-mail addresses can then be used for sending phishing e-mails for an interested company so as to target users. One can register an account with Google Apps for Work if one […]
Smartphones are seriously wonderful since these have introduced us to some amazing things like Snapchat, Vine, Maps, Shazam and some not-so-amazing stuff too like the threat of being stalked. Malwarebytes researchers claim that a malicious Android app gives your location to an anonymous operator through emails. It is called Spy.MailGPS and it surely is creepy. Before […]
ProofPoint researchers released a report on Tuesday, which revealed that cybercriminals are now hijacking the Brazilian internet connections by altering their DNS (domain name system) settings. These kinds of attacks are termed as pharming attacks. Pharming Attakcs: Pharming attacks are designed to attract victims towards fake websites. These fake websites are usually replicas of banks […]