The technical nature of cyber crime can sometimes obscure the fact that creating, using, and distributing malware, phishing kits and other threats is a business, albeit an illegitimate one. Like most other businesses, cybercriminals look for ways to market and distribute their tools effectively while staying under the radar of law enforcement and the security […]
A phishing app that is written in applescript. It is small and works on macs, whose users often don’t worry about malware on their computers. This makes the app more effective, especially when disguised as a music file or photo. Here’s what it does: It checks for a remote command, then creates a hidden folder in […]
Latest LinkedIn phishing scam asks users for their personal data to carry further attack through identity theft. LinkedIn has been in the news for all the bad reasons. Previously, it was the data of 117 million of its users stolen back in 2012, leaked in 2016 and sold on the darknet afterwords. Although, the alleged […]
Ryan Collins sent fake e-mails that appeared to be from Apple and Google. A 36-year-old Ryan Collins from Pennsylvania was sentenced to 18 months in prison after pleading guilty to hacking the Apple and Google accounts of more than 100 celebrities, including Jennifer Lawrence, Aubrey Plaza, Rihanna, and Avril Lavigne. Collins stole personal information, including […]
‘Moonlight’ group is likely to be involved in cyberespionage, warns Vectra Networks. A hacking group is conducting cyberespionage against targets in the Middle East by duping politicians, activists and staff at NGOs into clicking links to authentic-looking but fake versions of high-profile websites in the region, and then infecting them with malware. The operation — […]
King Phisher is a tool for testing and promoting user awareness by simulating real world phishing attacks. It features an easy to use, yet very flexible architecture allowing full control over both emails and server content. King Phisher can be used to run campaigns ranging from simple awareness training to more complicated scenarios in which […]
Bit.ly-based phishing links targeted former Sec. of State, Clinton campaign chair. The breach of personal e-mail accounts for Clinton presidential campaign chairman John Podesta and former Secretary of State Colin Powell have now been tied more closely to other breaches involving e-mail accounts for Democratic party political organizations. Podesta and Powell were both the victims of the […]
New Spear-phishing Campaign Targets Bellingcat Researchers trying to Investigate Flight MH17 Crash – Researchers believe the technique is exactly what has been used by Fancy Bears hackers in their previous hacks. The Bellngcat agency’s journalists are trying to investigate what actually caused the Malaysian Airlines’ flight MH17 crash, while hackers are trying to sabotage their […]
Lately, Apple users including celebrities have been targeted by cybercriminals with malware and phishing scams — This phishing scam is also after iCloud accounts. Recently IT security researcher Mehrdad noticed Apple users reporting that they couldn’t access their iCloud accounts. He then did some social engineering but didn’t find anything until one of his clients […]
Another day another phishing scam — This time, it’s the GoDaddy customers. A phishing scam is one of the easiest techniques used by cybercriminals to steal personal or financial credentials of any user who is not familiar with social engineering. With every day passing, these cyber scammers are coming up new and ever more convincing […]
Beware of fake Prisma photo editing app on Android store targeting users with phishing and malware scam! Prisma app for Android users was launched about a week ago, since then it has become one of the most used photo editing apps but with fame comes haters (just like when hackers added (Fake Pokémon Go app on Android store […]
Scammers exploit the recent a wave of attacks to trick victims with phishing offensive and steal sensitive data from the unaware users. Crooks always exploits the media attention on tragic events for their illegal activities and trick victims with social engineering techniques. Experts observed scammers in the past exploiting news like the crash of Malaysia Airlines […]
A Facebook phishing scam is stealing login credentials by using pornographic images — Scammers are using Facebook groups to spread their campaign! There is no way to stop cyber criminals from stealing login credentials of innocent social media users — Recently, one of the HackRead’s writers found a Facebook phishing scam targeting users and stealing their […]
Malicious macros made a comeback in 2015 to deliver malware. Now we’re seeing phishing emails use macros in Excel attachments to steal sensitive banking details. In 2015, we saw malicious Microsoft Office macros return with a vengeance, delivering a plethora of threats ranging from ransomware to banking Trojans. Now, we’ve found cybercriminals incorporating macros into […]
For a few days, I’m seeing a lot of phishing emails that try to steal credentials from victims. Well, nothing brand new but, this time, the scenario is quite different : The malicious email contains an HTML body with nice logos and texts pretending to be from a renowned company or service provider. There is a […]
In April 2016, while investigating a Smishing campaign dubbed RuMMS that involved the targeting of Android users in Russia, we also noticed three similar Smishing campaigns reportedly spreading inDenmark (February 2016), in Italy (February 2016), and in both Denmark and Italy (April 2016). Unlike the RuMMS campaign, these three campaigns in Europe used view overlay […]
Irish Government Emails Used in Latest PayPal Phishing Scam — Scammers are targeting your inbox with “Your Account Will Be Limited” phishing scam with terrible English skills! Cybercriminals and scammers try their best to adopt the most sophisticated techniques so users can be tricked into giving away their personal and financial information. In the past, we witnessed […]
Fresh Wave of Phish Campaign Reaches PayPal—Scammer Lure Users with “How to restore your account” Email PayPal is often being targeted by scammers and cyber criminals mainly because it is a money transaction platform and thus, it is a lucrative target for every threat actor. The latest phishing campaign to hit PayPal is in the […]
Researchers Observe Increase in Phish Attack Mimicking 2016 Rio Olympics Adverts! Phishing attacks are definitely on a rise nowadays with email scams and spam messages doing the round across the World Wide Web incessantly. Usually, these campaigns increase in their gravity, scope and proportion when a big event of national or global nature is expected […]
Yahoo mail Hammered by Congress for its Inefficiency in Preventing Phishing Attempts Symantec’s newest threat report claims that email phishing scams have substantially declined in the last three years but incidences where crypto-ransomware was used to encrypt data and demand payment in exchange to unlock it has increased by 35% just in 2015. This means, […]
Pirate Bay Torrent website blocked by Chrome, Safari and Firefox on accounts of phishing. It was a “dark day” for all the Torrent lovers worldwide after The Pirate Bay was shunned by Google’s Chrome, Apple’s Safari and Mozilla’s Firefox browsers yesterday. The browsers blame Thepiratebay.se as being a conning website that has been found tricking and […]