Facebook Last Warning Phishing Scam Stealing Login, Credit Card Data

Facebook is undoubtedly one of the most used social media networks with 1.86 billion monthly active users. That’s why its users are also under constant threat by hackers and cyber criminals. Recently, we discovered a phishing scam targeting Facebook users by tricking them into giving away their login credentials and personal information. The screenshot shows how cybercriminals […]

Facebook and Google linked to the $100 million phishing scheme

If you think that the internet is a safe place, you need to think again! Not even Billion dollar companies like Google and Facebook are safe from the cyber-criminals! Remember when we reported about a multi-million phishing scam conducted by a man from Lithuania, Mr. Evaldas Rimasauskas? It turns out that the targeted companies in that […]

Webroot Antivirus Marked Facebook as Phishing Site and Windows as Malware

You may remember Google’s Safe Browsing Site Status mistakenly marking Google.com as a potentially dangerous domain to visit or the Google Maps mistakenly labeling Berlin Square as Hitler Square. Now another firm has joined this list, it’s Webroot Inc., a private American company, that provides Internet security software for consumers and businesses. It all happened on 24th April, […]

SKYPE FIXES ‘SPYKE’ CREDENTIAL PHISHING REMOTE EXECUTION BUG

Microsoft recently fixed a vulnerability in its video chat and messaging app Skype that could have allowed an attacker to execute code on the system it was running on, phish Skype credentials and crash the application. Zacharis Alexandros, an independent researcher who’s also with the ‎European Union Agency for Network and Information Security a/k/a ENISA discovered […]

This Scary Phishing Attack Is Impossible To Detect — Here’s How It Affects Your Browsers

Short Bytes: A Chinese security researcher has demonstrated a scary phishing attack that’s virtually impossible to detect in web browsers like Chrome, Firefox, and Opera. The attack uses such unicode characters in domains that look just like the common ASCII characters. For example, “xn--pple-43d.com” is equivalent to “аpple.com”. Chrome 58 has fixed the issue and the update […]

Homograph Phishing Attacks are almost impossible to detect on major browsers

The Chinese security Xudong Zheng is warning of Homograph Phishing Attacks are “almost impossible to detect” also to experts. The Chinese security researcher Xudong Zheng has devised a phishing technique that is “almost impossible to detect.” Hackers can exploit a known vulnerability in the popular web browsers Chrome, Firefox and Opera to display to the […]

Beware; Sophisticated Phishing Attacks Using Unicode Characters

Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox, and Opera browsers are known for their tight security measures, yet they are often targeted by malicious actors because of the fact that these are the most used browsers worldwide. As a result of the tight security measures, hackers have come up with a new technique to target users with a highly […]

New Fake Email Phishing Scam Attack LinkedIn Users – Beware

[jpshare]Fake Email phishing attack hitting LinkedIn users via Mail and LinkedIn inbox’s  and ask them to attach the CV. Since its looks like an original link which come from official LinkedIn, its leads to  many users to be victimized by this Email  phishing Attack . It is decent to believe that beneficiaries of the false […]

Chrome, Firefox, and Opera Vulnerable to Undetectable Phishing Attack

Browsers such as Chrome, Firefox, and Opera are vulnerable to a new variation of an older attack that allows phishers to register and pass fake domains as the websites of legitimate services, such as Apple, Google, eBay, and others. Discovered by Chinese security researcher Xudong Zheng, this is a variation of a homograph attack, first […]

Phishing campaigns target airline consumers seeking business credentials

A series of phishing campaigns is targeting airline consumers with messages crafted to trick victims into handing over personal or business credentials. A wave string of phishing campaigns is targeting airline consumers with messages crafted to trick victims into handing over personal or business credentials. The phishing messages pretend to be sent from a travel agency […]

Blizzard’s World of Warcraft fans hit by phishing scam

Hackers have centered their attention towards a famous game “World of Warcraft, ” and things aren’t looking good for its fans. According to the Graham Cluley, hackers are conducting phishing attacks on gamers using two types of emails to steal their login credentials. The viscous scheme: Hackers are sending emails to World of Warcraft players making them […]

Spear phishing campaign targeted Saudi Arabia Government organizations

Security researchers at MalwareBytes have uncovered a spearphishing campaign that targeted Saudi Arabia Government organizations. Security experts at MalwareBytes have spotted a new spear phishing campaign that is targeting Saudi Arabia governmental organizations. According to the experts, the campaign already targeted about a dozen Saudi agencies. Attackers used weaponized Word document and tricked victims into opening them […]

A Multimillion Phishing Scam: Two Tech Giants Scammed into Paying Over $100M

Evaldas Rimasauskas, a man from Lithuania, scammed two major US tech companies into wiring over 100 million Dollars to several bank accounts. According to the reports, the criminal impersonated to be a well-known Asian computer hardware manufacturer by registering his own company with the same name in Latvia, with the same name as a legitimate one […]

13 Infected Android Apps on Google Play Phishing Instagram Accounts

Lately, credential stealing campaigns and Instagram go hand in hand as we have seen so many credential stealers targeting social networking app users. These campaigns circulate on Google Play in the form of tools designed to increase the number of followers on Instagram. Recently, 13 malicious apps were identified to be uploaded on Google Play […]

Umbrella – A Phishing Dropper designed for Pentest

Umbrella is a file dropper dedicated to pentesting, it downloads a file on target system and then executes without the need of double execution. To compromise the same target again, you need to delete the following folder on target system : – C:UsersPublicLibrariesIntel Features Download executable on target system. Silent execution. If the exe already […]

Phishing Activity Trends Report for 4th Quarter 2016 – APWG

The APWG Phishing Activity Trends Report breaks down phishing attacks reported to the APWG by its part organizations, its Global Research Partners, through the association’s site at http://www.apwg.org, and by email entries to [email protected] Phishing is a fraud mechanism utilizing both social engineering and specialized subterfuge to take buyers’ individual personality information and financial accreditation’s. […]